{"id":529,"date":"2012-07-17T09:41:31","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T14:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=529"},"modified":"2012-07-17T12:02:38","modified_gmt":"2012-07-17T17:02:38","slug":"kleinsasser-to-und-athletic-hof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=529","title":{"rendered":"Kleinsasser To UND Athletic HOF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/kleinsasser2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-574\" title=\"kleinsasser2\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/kleinsasser2-300x242.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/kleinsasser2-300x242.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/kleinsasser2-431x348.jpg 431w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/kleinsasser2-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/kleinsasser2-216x175.jpg 216w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/kleinsasser2.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) &#8211; Retired Minnesota Viking Jim<\/p>\n<p>Kleinsasser (KLYN&#8217;-sahs-ur) headlines this year&#8217;s class of<\/p>\n<p>inductees into the University of North Dakota Letterwinners<\/p>\n<p>Athletics Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n<p>Kleinsasser spent all 13 of his NFL seasons with the Vikings<\/p>\n<p>after being a second-round draft pick out of UND in 1999. He<\/p>\n<p>appeared in more games than any tight end in Vikings history. He<\/p>\n<p>retired after last season.<\/p>\n<p>The Carrington native was a two-time NCAA Division II All<\/p>\n<p>America tight end while at UND in the late 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>The 2012 class also includes John Christen, a tennis and<\/p>\n<p>wrestling standout in the 1980s, and Louise Ronnerman, a cross<\/p>\n<p>country and track star in the 1990s. UND&#8217;s 1997 NCAA Division I<\/p>\n<p>champion men&#8217;s hockey team also is being inducted. The ceremony is Sept. 29.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) &#8211; Retired Minnesota Viking Jim Kleinsasser (KLYN&#8217;-sahs-ur) headlines this year&#8217;s class of inductees into the University of North Dakota Letterwinners Athletics Hall of Fame. Kleinsasser spent all 13 of his NFL seasons with the Vikings after being a second-round draft pick out of UND in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":574,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":575,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions\/575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}