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Editors’ Note: Sports columnist Travis Kriens hosts a TV show, The Sports Lounge on SDSU channel 2, which airs numerous times during the week. He also co-hosts a radio show on KSDJ on Tuesdays from 6-9 p.m.

Penn State coach fiasco not about football

Former Penn State defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky was charged this past week with seven counts of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, eight counts of corruption of minors, eight counts of endangering the welfare of a child, seven counts of indecent assault sex crimes against young boys. Penn State head coach Joe Paterno, athletic director Tim Curly [...]

Senia Hiltunen shows off the bull elk she shot on Oct. 20 in the southern Black Hills. (Submitted photo)

She shoots like a girl

An SDSU senior finally shot the trophy bull elk she’s been waiting for. Senia Hiltunen collects holiday Barbies, she has a hot pink cell phone and she hunts bull elk. She considers herself pretty girly. Hiltunen, 23, was the recipient of one of the most highly sought after hunting opportunities in South Dakota: an any-elk [...]

Jackrabbits all shook up

The Jacks had a rockin’ good time in Oklahoma in more ways than one. The SDSU volleyball team received a crash-course in plate tectonics on their road trip last weekend. Yes, they experienced an earthquake. Actually, two earthquakes, but most players were sleeping during the Friday-night quake. “Most of our players didn’t feel the first [...]

Junior Leah Dietel drives the lane Nov. 3 against Minnesota State Moorehead. The Jacks open the season Nov. 11 at home. (Collegian photo by Aaron Stoneberger)

Jacks face tough road to tourney

A deep roster will boost the women’s chances of making the NCAA tournament. Arguably one of the most successful athletic programs on campus over the last decade, the SDSU women’s basketball team looks primed to make a run at a fourth consecutive NCAA tournament. One of the big keys to getting back to the postseason, [...]

In-state rivals collide during SDSU’s 8-3 home victory over USD on Nov. 2. (Collegian photo by Aaron Stoneberger)

Jacks hockey pounds USD

The Jacks put on a scoring clinic, beating the Coyotes 8-3 in front of a rowdy home crowd. Near the end of the college football season every year, Georgia and Georgia Tech play each other in a game that is commonly referred to as “Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate.” You can call the men’s hockey meeting between [...]

Panthers sweep SDSU at Frost

UNI showed the Jacks what a mid-major power can do on the courts. SDSU’s 3-0 loss to UNI at Frost Arena on Nov.7 featured a program at the top of their game and another searching for answers to a lost season. The 12th-ranked Panthers jumped out to a 3-0 lead in set one and never [...]

Rombough ventures on a cold, early morning white-tail bow hunt

The sound of my alarm clock fills the room and I jolt into consciousness. It’s 5:30 a.m. The idea that I’m readying to hunt forces me awake faster than cold water to the face. I feel rejuvenated even after just four hours of sleep. My truck careens down the highway at 65 mph. The night sky hovers above [...]

Junior Tony Fiegen pulls up a field goal attempt against Minnesota State Moorehead Nov. 3. Fiegen and the Jacks open the year Nov. 12 against Western Michigan at Frost Arena.  (Collegian photo by Aaron Stoneberger)

On the rise

The Jacks are looking forward to another great season with new leaders and a new defensive focus. Men’s basketball at SDSU has reached a crossroads. Last year was the best season in the short time the Jacks have been at the Division I level, but they left a lot to be desired defensively. Picked to [...]

Top-seeded Jacks falter at tournament

After a strong start to the season, the women’s soccer team had first loss to Oakland. The SDSU Jackrabbits soccer team’s season came to a screeching halt Friday with a deflating 1-0 defeat to the hometown Oakland Golden Grizzlies in a semi-final game of the Summit League Tournament in Rochester, Mich. The loss breaks the [...]

SDSU quarterback Austin Sumner scampers for a first down on Nov. 5 during the Hobo Day game against Southern Illinois, which ended in a second consecutive win for the Jacks. SDSU has won three straight Hobo Day games.

SDSU holds off Salukis in Hobo Day win

Jackrabbit fans had a reason to celebrate the Hobo Day game with the defeat of Salukis, 45-34. For as disappointing a season as the Jacks have had, it was hard to predict what Hobo Day had in store for SDSU. The game lived up to its unpredictable billing and had the unlikeliest of sources help [...]