The best part about travel is exploring the unknown and learning new things. Today, I depart for London for a two-week trip to Europe. While I’ve been to London two … …
Posted in OPINION, Tim Flagstad's Column | Tagged London, London Underground, Olympics, Summer Games | Leave a commentA little more than seven years ago while wandering around London, I saw Olympic rings posters everywhere I looked urging Londoners to “Back the Bid.” Most of the signs featured … …
Posted in OPINION, Tim Flagstad's Column | Tagged 2012 Summer Games, London, Olympics, Tim Flagstad, Trafalgar Square | Leave a commentOn a recent sun-splashed Sunday afternoon, Greg Forthun stood on a sandy bank of the Missouri River with a couple fishing lines in the water and the day’s catch up … …
Posted in Flood, NEWS CATEGORIES, People, Slideshow, Sports | Tagged Bismarck, fishing, flood, Greg Forthun, Missouri River, North Dakota, North Dakota Game and Fish Department, pike, walleye | Leave a commentTerry Steiner always dreamed of representing the U.S. at the Olympics. Following a standout wrestling career at Century High School and the University of Iowa, Steiner fell just short of … …
Posted in NEWS CATEGORIES, People, Slideshow, Sports | Tagged Bismarck, Century High School, Chad Renner, Jeff Schumacher, Kasey Gillis, London, North Dakota, Olympics, Oregon State University, Summer Games, Terry Steiner, Troy Steiner, U.S. Women's Wrestling, University of Iowa, wrestling | 4 CommentsLast year, my aunt found a long-lost picture, a copy of which now hangs in my dad’s garage and sits in my bedroom. The image she captured shows my dad … …
Posted in OPINION, Tim Flagstad's Column | Tagged Bismarck, dads, kids, North Dakota, sports, Twins, Vikings | Leave a commentMuch like any number of races during the spring and summer, runners will crowd behind the starting line, bouncing up and down with pre-race excitement just waiting for the starting … …
Posted in NEWS CATEGORIES, People, Slideshow, Sports | Tagged Gladiator Rush, Huff Hills, marathon, mud, North Dakota | Leave a commentIt’s time for Vikings fans everywhere to start imagining the unimaginable. What to do if the NFL team of Minnesota and the Dakotas skips town and follows the Lakers west … …
Posted in OPINION, Tim Flagstad's Column | Tagged Legislature, Metrodome, Minnesota, new stadium, North Dakota, Vikings | Leave a commentDan Woldoch sighed intermittently with pain and disbelief as he navigated a golf cart across the flood-ravaged Riverwood Golf Course one unusually balmy morning in March. At one point, while … …
Posted in Flood, NEWS CATEGORIES, Slideshow, Sports | Tagged Bismarck, flood, Riverwood Golf Course, Tim Flagstad | 1 CommentWhen North Dakota State announced it was moving up to the NCAA Division I level for the 2004 season, skeptics across the state scoffed. The Bison were full of themselves, … …
Posted in OPINION, Sports, Tim Flagstad's Column | Tagged Bison, Division I, football, men's basketball, NDSU, North Central Conference, soccer, Summit League, volleyball | Leave a commentOn a basketball road trip this season, Joey Dwyer looked over and saw his teammate Aaron Hultstrand reading a book, which isn’t unusual. The subject of the tome, however, left … …
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