Uncertainty at the quarterback position, the turnover in the front office and the salary cap limitations made it as challenging as ever to be excited about this offseason, including the pinnacle of it - the draft. But then came Kyler Murray, more contract wizardry by Brzezinski and the retention of Brian Flores which all helped to make the upcoming season less bleak and the exercise of running simulations on the draft more enticing. So with only a few weeks remaining until th

From Ben Woodside through Taylor Braun & Lawrence Alexander to Grant Nelson, the NDSU men's basketball team has regularly had star players who lead them to Sioux Falls and the opportunity to compete on the biggest stage of college sports. Doing it all under one coach would be remarkable - that it's been maintained through three different leaderships is in a different stratosphere altogether. I will grant that Dave Richman has had some warts but most of those came in the early

The Upside Down is a trendy bit right now because of a certain extremely-popular series but far from fiction, that's been the existence for Minnesota football fans on Sundays of late and now also applies to the NDSU football team. Not since 2009 have the Bison had their season conclude this early That is the dynasty Many of the current players had not even held a full-size football when it started It's truly a remarkable run of consistency That is the big picture but for the

Not even Thanksgiving but the season is effectively over. Someone with delusional optimism might say that they can get above .500 and have a shot at a wild card berth. Delusional being the key word because the NFC is far too loaded for a team with that many losses already to crack the wild card. It's conceivable that a 12-win team won't make the postseason with the way that the wins are piling up. That's what comes from three straight losses after the second best performance

In an era of spread offense where scoring 40 points is commonplace, the trip to Grand Forks was an aberration. A splendid aberration with the way the game unfolded but it leaves a lot less for those who just want to see highlight touchdowns and big plays on offense. But the defenses were the story of the game. Donovan Woolen, Logan Kopp, Toby Anene and Anthony Chideme-Alfaro will be the most oft-discussed members of Code Green in the upcoming week for what they did to impact

Jonathan James McCarthy has started three Professional football games and came into the third one with many more questions than provens. And for the record, he still has mountains to climb in proving that he deserves to be the guy for the next 15+ years BUT the game-clinching throw was something we've rarely seen by a quarterback in Minnesota Purple. It's been maybe forever since it happened by one who has less than 20 quarters of playing experience at this level - pre & regu