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The Summer Games: A time to learn

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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 … …

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Ready for a trip of a lifetime

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A 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 … …

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‘Highly modified’ Missouri River means good fishing this year

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On 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 … …

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Steiner leads U.S. women’s wrestling team to Olympics

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Terry 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 … …

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Sports: The bonding agent between dads and sons

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Last 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 … …

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Gladiator Rush: A muddy, full-contact, glorious marathon

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Much 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 … …

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Would you cheer for the Los Angeles Vikings?

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It’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 … …

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Riverwood Golf Course may not be playable this year

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Dan 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 … …

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Bison move to Division I showed foresight

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When 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, … …

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Shiloh basketball player competes in 5 sports, has 4.0 GPA

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On 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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