Women’s basketball team falls to U of M in exhibition
The South Dakota State University women’s basketball team fell 93-67 in a matchup with the Division I Minnesota Golden Gophers on Friday night at Williams Arena in Minneapolis. The Jackrabbits, rated the top NCAA Division II team in the nation, kept the margin close in the first half, trading baskets at the start of the game.
Football team ends season
The SDSU Jackrabbit football team ended their 2002 campaign on a winning note Saturday as they downed the Minnesota State University, Mankato Mavericks 39-13 at Mankato. The SDSU win allowed the Jacks to finish the season above .500 and ended MSU’s three-game winning streak.
SDSU wraps up regular season play
The Jackrabbits were in action again Nebraska-Omaha on Friday and won with game scores of 30-24, 30-25, 30-26. Wendy O’Neill and Kelly Hoemann each posted 11 kills to contribute to the win. Kim Bostrom also had eight kills and a .636 hitting percentage (8 kills, one error in 11 attacks).
Swimming dominates over Buena Vista
The South Dakota State University men’s and women’s swimming teams dominated Buena Vista last Saturday in Storm Lake, Iowa. On the men’s side, Zach Olson, a junior from Thief River Falls, Minn.,
DI move impossible without conference
If SDSU does not have a pre-determined Division I conference in place when the Board of Regents accepts or rejects the proposed move in December, the university will not move, regardless of the decision, SDSU Athletic Director Fred Oien said. “It’s simple,” Oien said.
Defining a cowboy
It’s the stuff postcards are made of. A cowboy, lean and lanky, his face burnt by the sun and worn by the wind, stares into the slowly sinking sun. His eyes squint as he tosses his saddle over his shoulder and beholds the beauty of the land he loves. He breathes in the cool mountain air, then turns slowly toward the bunkhouse.
Government needs to find bin Laden
Osama bin Laden should get his own line of horror films. Every time the United States thinks they have killed him in one of their Afghani air raids, they fail to catch him. He returns like a bad villain who just won’t die, cackling at our inability. The problem is that Osama bin Laden and the dangerous threat he poses are both all too real.
Telling stories to help us find our true selves
What’s your story? What story does your family tell about you? The story which reveals the quintessential you, the isolated incident which reveals the fullness of who you are? The archetypal story for my children is the same, yet different. When Dan was just able to talk he would crawl in bed with my wife, Carole, and I in the morning.
Reflections on finding truth
Somewhere on the windswept plains of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, history washes over us and the world crawls back a few centuries to start over. As I stand in the ramshackle cemetary of Wounded Knee, I imagine children loping across the plains heading home to watchful mothers.
Young Mr. Steckelberg rails against the fast-food fascism of our city
Well, the elections are long gone now. Seemingly just a flitterence in our minds. All went as planned, I think. Some people won, others lost and I think in the end we all got what we really wanted: an end to those ridiculous campaign commercials. But I ask you, amid all of those campaign promises of better government and a world where our social security funds will remain intact and seniors have prescription drugs brought free to their door by happy, well-educated children who, due to the new tax cuts, stay in the state to finish their education at our superior state institutions and then remain to raise their overachieving families, where were the discussions of issues that truly affect us? Now that the land of milk, honey and fiscally competitive family farms is our land, I ask you: when will they answer the real questions that Brookings residents continually ask? Questions such as, “why don’t we have a Wendy’s?” Or, “How about Arby’s?” And the one I hear all of the time, “Could some one please explain to me for the love of God, where is our Taco Bell?!!!!!” Whenever I bring this up to a political hopeful I always get the same type of response.
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