{"id":87608,"date":"2015-11-16T08:03:18","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T14:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=87608"},"modified":"2015-11-16T08:03:18","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T14:03:18","slug":"announcement-this-week-unds-new-nickname","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=87608","title":{"rendered":"Announcement this week, UND&#8217;s new nickname"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/UND3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-43510\" alt=\"UND3\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/UND3-300x202.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/UND3-300x202.png 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/UND3-431x291.png 431w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/UND3-259x175.png 259w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/UND3.png 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) &#8211; The University of North Dakota expects to announce a new nickname this week, after going the last three years without one.<\/p>\n<p>Monday is the final day in the last round of voting for a new moniker to replace &#8220;Fighting Sioux,&#8221; which the NCAA deemed offensive. The new nickname will be either Fighting Hawks or Roughriders.<\/p>\n<p>Fighting Hawks received the most votes in the first two rounds of voting but didn&#8217;t get more than 50 percent in either round. That prompted the third runoff vote.<\/p>\n<p>The Utah-based private research company Qualtrics has conducted the voting, which is restricted to people with UND ties. Earlier voting eliminated North Stars, Sundogs and Nodaks as possible new nicknames.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) &#8211; The University of North Dakota expects to announce a new nickname this week, after going the last three years without one. Monday is the final day in the last round of voting for a new moniker to replace &#8220;Fighting Sioux,&#8221; which the NCAA deemed offensive. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87608","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=87608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87610,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87608\/revisions\/87610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}