Jacks open season Feb. 17, beat DWU
South Dakota State opened its 2002 baseball season by sweeping a non-conference doubleheader from Dakota Wesleyan Sunday at Parkston. Four Jackrabbit pitchers combined on a two-hit shutout as the Jacks won the opener 8-0, then State took the nitecap 5-3.
Jackrabbits perform well at NCC Conference
South Dakota State head track and field coach Paul Danger believes that if his team continues to run as well as they have, and if they get a few breaks, the Jackrabbits can have one of the highest finishes in the NCC indoor conference meet in years. The Jackrabbits have performed well all season, but have come on strong in the past two meets.
Jacks ignite mats with fire by winning two duals
It was an impressive week for the South Dakota State wrestling team. The 12-ranked Jacks had two big wins last week. The Jacks defeated Southwest State 28-19 on Feb. 13 in a rescheduled dual. SDSU defeated 24-19 against in-state rivals, Augustana on Feb.
Women’s team claims first place tie with North Dakota
LBack on Track. By sweeping Northern Colorado and Nebraska-Omaha at Frost Arena last weekend, the South Dakota State University women’s basketball team improved to 12-4 in the NCC. The Jacks are in a first place conference tie with the North Dakota Fighting Sioux, entering the final week of regular season play.
Men’s team conquers the North Central Conference
Two wins this weekend made the South Dakota State University men’s basketball team the North Central Conference regular season champion, with two conference games left before the playoffs. The Jackrabbits, now 21-3 on the season and 15-1 in conference play, defeated the University of Northern Colorado Friday night and followed up with a victory over the University of Nebraska-Omaha Saturday night at Frost Arena.
Music Review
This week as I was listening to a spectacular album from Hank Williams III with plans to review it and once again find the diamond in the garbage dump, and I got to thinking (strange, I know). No one will hear this album. Not really no one, I guess. All of you, upon reading my endorsement of the son of a country music legend and grandson of a country music deity, will scurry like fuzzy lemmings to your preferred music store and plop down the valuable beer dollars for his old style honky-tonk masterwork “Broke, Lovesick and Drifting.
Video Viewpoints
Rebecca Opstedahl
In our humble opinion…
Good: Sean Connery. It’s amazing that someone who is old enough to be our grandfather is still so incredibly hot. Don’t believe us? Watch “Finding Forrester” and listen to him say “Bolt the door if you’re coming in.” Anyone who can make that ordinary phrase sound sexy has to be a hottie.
Students’ Association Corner discusses SHED Days in Pierre and future election
This last week, 28 Students’ Association senators and SDSU students attended Students for Higher Education Days (SHED) in Pierre. We met the student delegations from the other five state universities. The executive director of the South Dakota Student Federation Allen Godsell of Black Hills State welcomed over 100 participants.
Life for first-borns is fraught with trials
There is no job more difficult, more aggravating or as mentally taxing as being the first offspring born into a family. The eldest child is similar to a monkey in a mad scientist’s laboratory, where weird, often painful experiments are performed on the unwilling subject, in the hopes of bettering those who follow.
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