FARGO – Upon further review, North Dakota State athletic director Gene Taylor said talk of the Big Ten Conference banning its schools from playing Football Championship Subdivision programs is just that. Talk.
“It’s just a discussion point,” Taylor said. “Hold on to your hats. It’s not time to panic.”
Taylor’s comments were in response to those made by University of Wisconsin athletic director Barry Alvarez, who told a Madison, Wis., radio station that Big Ten officials agreed t...
Red Sox win rain-delayed contest over TwinsComments OffMINNEAPOLIS – John Lackey allowed one hit over six innings before a three-hour rain delay, Dustin Pedroia and Will Middlebrooks homered and the Boston Red Sox beat the Minnesota Twins 5-1 Sunday for their fifth straight win. The delay lasted long enough for the Twins to show the 1993 movie “The Sandlot” in its entirety on Target Field’s videoboard. The game resumed about 80 minutes after the film ended and many fans moved into the first eight rows behind the dugouts. Lackey (2-4) gave up one unearned run and struck out five before dark skies and heavy rain sent fans running for cover as he was warming up to start the seventh. Boston Minnesota ab r h bi ab r h bi Victorn cf 4 1 1 0 Carroll 2b 4 0 1 0 JGoms lf 4 1 1 0 Mauer c 4 0 0 0 Pedroia 2b 5 2 2 3 Mornea 1b 4 0 1 0 D.Ortiz dh 5 0 2 0 Plouffe 3b 4 1 2 0 Napoli 1b 4 0 1 1 Arcia dh 3 0 0 0 Nava rf 5 0 2 0 WRmrz lf-cf 4 0 1 0 Mdlrks 3b 5 1 1 1 Parmel rf 4 0 0 0 Sltlmch c 3 0 1 0 Hicks cf 2 0 0 0 Ciriaco ss 4 0 0 0 Wlngh ph-lf 1 0 0 0 Flormn ss 2 0 0 0 Totals 39 5 11 5 Totals 32 1 5 0 Boston 011 010 002— 5 Minnesota 000 010 000— 1 E—Ciriaco (6), Plouffe (5). LOB—Boston 11, Minnesota 6. 2B—Plouffe (9), W.Ramirez (3). HR—Pedroia (2), Middlebrooks (8). SB—Victorino (4). IP H R ER BB SO Boston Lackey W,2-4 6 1 1 0 0 5 A.Miller H,4 1 0 0 0 0 1 Uehara H,9 1 2 0 0 1 3 Tazawa 1 2 0 0 0 2 Minnesota P.Hernandez L,2-1 4Zc 9 3 3 1 2 Roenicke 2Xc 0 0 0 0 2 Duensing 1 0 0 0 1 2 Burton 1 2 2 2 2 1 HBP—by Lackey (Arcia). T—3:15 (Rain delay: 3:00). A—33,042 (39,021). Tags: sports, updates, twins, baseball More from around the web
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Hoge finishes second at Web.com Charity Pro-AmComments OffGREER, S.C. – Fargo South graduate Tom Hoge finished second at the BMW Charity Pro-Am on Sunday. Hoge tallied six birdies in the final round of the Web.com Tour event to finish with a 22-under-par 264. Mark Anderson won the tournament with a 27-under-par 259. Tags: sports, updates, golf, men More from around the web
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MARATHON PROFILES: Iowan accidentally runs two racesComments Off
Dennis Lee, of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, got a longer warmup run than he wanted for Saturday’s full marathon. The 47-year-old mistakenly ran the 10K race, which started at 7 a.m. After crossing the finish line and realizing his mistake, he walked back to the starting line for the full marathon start at 8:15 a.m. “It was pretty brutal,” Lee said of having to run an extra 6.2 miles. “But they say everything happens for a reason.” Lee said he had no idea there were different starting times for the 10K, half-marathon and full marathon races. He said he didn’t hear any of the announcements while trying to get his MP3-player to work. “I saw people going to the starting line, and once I heard the gun, I took off,” Lee said. “I ran pretty hard to catch the pacers, but there were no pacers. And when I returned to the dome, I thought I made a wrong turn.” After running a 44-minute, 28-second 10K, Lee ended up running the 26.2-mile marathon in 3 hours, 25 minutes. That fell short of qualifying for the Boston Marathon by five minutes. “I clearly would’ve qualified had I not run the 10K,” said a smiling Lee, who instead of receiving just one medal, got two. Moorhead runners unite Isaac Monke-Lundberg, of Moorhead, figured the only way he could claim a first place Saturday was with a little help from his friends. Joining forces with fellow Moorhead High School graduates Erik Hanson, Tyler Iverson and Ryan Sederquist, Monke-Lundberg became a part of the winning relay team of the full marathon. “I’m the slow guy,” Monke-Lundberg said. “They thought they would give the slow guy a victory.” Hanson, who ran track at Minnesota State Moorhead, ran the first leg. Monke-Lundberg ran the second leg. Iverson, who ran track at St. Thomas, ran the third leg. And Sederquist, who still runs at Concordia, ran the final leg. “It was nice out there for me,” Hanson said of his first leg run in cooler weather. “Yeah, it got hot and humid for me out there,” Sederquist said of his final leg. A hot dog and a banana please Last year, Andrea Steinmetz, of Fargo, dressed up as a coconut in the 10K race. Saturday, she wore a hot dog hat, and her husband, Jon, wore a body-length hot dog outfit. Their friend, Nick Kane, of Horace, N.D., wore a banana costume. “We’re not here to win the big prize, just to have some fun,” Andrea said. Jon said he got a little warm wearing the hot dog outfit. But the garb certainly prompted plenty of comments from marathon spectators, such as “Oscar Mayer, go.” “That certainly kept us going,” Jon said. Strolling with his son Two-year-old Rowan Hammer beat his dad in the half-marathon. That’s because Steven pushed his son in a stroller for 13.1 miles. “I run with him a lot, but never in a race. … This is a first,” said Steven, a proud 32-year-old dad from Fargo. He was especially proud because Rowan suffers from a brain disorder known as lissencephaly, a form of epilepsy that causes seizures for Rowan. “He loved it,” Steven said. “He was yelling and laughing pretty much the whole race.” Recovering from a smashed foot It was 1981 when Jerry Rick, of Breckenridge, Minn., ran his first marathon in Grand Forks. “It was a hot, crappy day,” Rick said. Since then, the 53-year-old Rick has run 60 marathons and almost 100 half-marathons. Saturday, his half-marathon was his first run of any kind since a forklift smashed Rick’s right foot while he worked as an electrician. Rick recently received a call that he will be inducted into the Rock ‘N Roll series of marathons hall of fame in October in Cleveland. He’s run in all but one of the Rock ‘N Roll series races in the United States. Rick also has run in 16 Boston Marathons. “But not this year, thank God,” Rick said. Not bad for a 12-year-old At age 12, Jacob Rieth, of Fargo, fared quite well in the 10K run. He finished 37th overall with a personal-best time of 43 minutes, 55 seconds. “I just like to run,” said Rieth, a sixth-grader at Fargo’s Discovery Middle School. “It’s just good exercise, and it’s fun.” Part of the fun for Rieth was listening to the bands playing on the Fargo Marathon course. He hopes to run the half marathon by the time he’s 14, and eventually run a full marathon. Rieth even had fun in Saturday morning’s drizzle. “I like the rain because it cools me off,” he said. Tags: north dakota, news, sports, minnesota More from around the web
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Laredo Lemurs topple RedHawks in extra inningsComments OffLAREDO, Texas – Laredo’s Garrett Rau hit a sacrifice fly that scored John Allen to give the Lemurs a 4-3 victory over Fargo-Moorhead on Saturday after 11 innings of play in American Association baseball. The RedHawks were led by Nick Akins, who had a two-run double to left that scored Keith Brachold and Ryan Pineda to tie the game up in the eighth inning. REDHAWKS LAREDO ab r h bi ab r h bi Pnprs ss 5 0 0 0 Opitz 2b 4 0 0 0 Garcia 2b 0 0 0 0 Mojica ss 5 0 0 0 Snskie lf 5 0 3 0 Shrdan 1b 5 1 1 0 Jckson cf 5 0 0 0 Allen 3b/dh 3 3 2 1 Alberts rf 4 1 2 0 Gaston rf 5 0 1 1 Brchld 1b 4 1 0 0 Ptrson c 5 0 2 0 Pneda dh 3 1 0 0 Kain cf 3 0 0 0 Brquin 3b 5 0 1 0 Carroll cf 0 0 0 0 Jnings c 5 0 1 0 Rau 3b 5 0 1 1 Akins 3b 4 0 1 2 Incvglia lf 3 0 0 0 Totals 40 3 8 2 Totals 38 4 7 3 FM 000 000 030 00–3 8 1 L 000 102 000 01–4 7 2 E–FM, Penprase (2). L, Mojica (1), Rau (1). 2B–FM, Alberts 2 (3), Akins (1). 3B–FM, Sosnoskie (1). HR–L, Allen (1). SB–FM, Akins (1). LOB–FM, 10. L, 8. REDHAWKS IP H R ER BB SO Laber 7 5 3 3 2 6 Hess Xc 0 0 0 1 0 Harris 2Xc 1 1 1 1 1 Johnson, L Zc 1 0 0 1 0 LAREDO IP H R ER BB SO Wilborn 6 3 0 0 2 4 Blanks 1 2 0 0 0 0 Williamson Xc 1 2 0 1 0 Haynes 1Zc 2 1 0 0 3 Walker 1Zc 0 0 0 1 3 Rau, W Xc 0 0 0 0 2 Umpires–Home: Sheets. First: Morgan. Third: Henderson. Time–3:22. A–4,116. Tags: sports, updates, redhawks More from around the web
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