BALLSTON SPA, N.Y. (AP) — Abner Doubleday’s boyhood hometown is celebrating his birth 200 years ago. The story that Doubleday invented baseball in 1839 at Cooperstown, New York, has been discredited. But the Civil War officer is still celebrated in Ballston Spa. The Brookside Museum is hosting a party for […]

Bismarck North Dakota Game & Fish reports,  North Dakota’s deer gun lottery has been held and individual results are available online at the state Game and Fish Department’s website, gf.nd.gov. Chief of administrative services Kim Kary said moving to an online lottery has resulted in reducing the time between the application deadline […]

Minneapolis   FOX Sports North, (CSi 25,  CSi 78.625 HD) )  in conjunction with the Minnesota Twins has announced details for “Operation Home Base” –a commercial free Twins telecast on Sunday, July 7, on CSi 25 & CSi HD 78-625,  designed to showcase the Twins’ Armed Forces Appreciation game at […]

Jamestown  (CSi)   The annual Blue Jay Golf Scramble will be held at Hillcrest Golf Course Saturday, June 29. The four-person golf tournament starts with a shotgun start at 9:30 – a.m. with registration beginning at 9-a.m. The cost is $50 per person, which includes green fees, mulligans and hole prizes. […]

FARGO, N.D. (AP) — The Ralph Engelstad Arena at the University of North Dakota is preparing to unveil what it calls the largest video display in college hockey, a 50,000-pound scoreboard manufactured by South Dakota-based Daktronics. The Engelstad Family Foundation, which has been at odds with recently departed school president […]

Jamestown  (CSi)  Jack Brown Stadium in Jamestown will host the 2019 North Dakota Amateur State Baseball Tournaments. The Old Pro State Tournament for those 35 and over, is slated for July 20-21. Cost is $20 per player. The Class A State Tournament is set for Aug. 3-4. The Class AA […]

NEW YORK (AP) _ Zion Williamson is coming to New Orleans. The Pelicans took the Duke freshman forward with the first overall pick in Thursday’s NBA Draft. Williamson became the third freshman to be voted player of the year by The Associated Press, averaging 22.6 points and 8.9 rebounds while […]

FARGO, N.D. (AP) — A judge has thrown out a discrimination lawsuit by 11 former University of North Dakota women’s hockey players seeking to have the program reinstated.The complaint filed last summer alleges the university violated Title IX laws that prohibit women from being treated differently because of gender. School […]

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A survivor of a campus shooting in North Carolina has gotten to meet Tim Tebow, an athlete he has looked up to since the fourth grade. News outlets report that the Syracuse Mets minor league outfielder visited with 19-year-old Drew Pescaro before a game Wednesday at […]