3+ day, 6+ hour ago   (1424+ words) BRANDON — At Brandon Valley, there's something to be said about the legacy that players leave behind. The defending Class 11AAA champion Lynx entered the 2026 season looking to replace 17 combined starters on offense and defense. Before the season started, Brandon Valley coach…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (297+ words) After graduating a number of their star players, it was supposed to take the defending 11AAA State Champion Brandon Valley Lynx some time to round into to form and become a formidable threat to defend their crown. Ryder Mueller apparently is…...

4+ day, 4+ hour ago   (270+ words) Perhaps you were enjoying a pontoon ride on Lake Madison instead of watching South Dakota State play on Lake Michigan. Perhaps you were doing death-defying flips on your jet ski instead of watching Austin Modzewski (pronounced muh-jet-ski). Maybe you were…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (228+ words) SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - Travis Schafer has spent nearly three decades on the sidelines of high school football fields as an assistant coach. For many of those seasons he had a son tagging along. As Ty, Tate and Brody Schafer grew up…...

6+ day, 21+ hour ago   (1087+ words) BRANDON — If there was ever a concern that the Brandon Valley football team would struggle to replace one of the program's all-time greats in Levi Veskrna, there isn't anymore. The next great Lynx running back officially arrived Saturday night. Junior…...

1+ week, 18+ hour ago   (847+ words) SIOUX FALLS — After a disappointing 2026 debut a week ago, Sioux Falls Lincoln turned to its high-powered running game on Friday night. Brayden Jackson and Brody Schafer combined for five rushing touchdowns, and the fourth-ranked Patriots rolled to a 35-7 win over…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (300+ words) As a true freshman quarterback at the University of South Dakota last year, Austyn Modrzewski couldn’t do anything right. “(At my high school) we just threw the rock all around non-stop. We were always in the shotgun, I never went…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (658+ words) BROOKINGS — The No. 1 ranked team in college volleyball came to First Bank & Trust Arena on Wednesday night, and the biggest crowd ever to attend a volleyball match in South Dakota greeted them. Nebraska defeated South Dakota State in straight sets…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (1524+ words) SIOUX FALLS — O'Gorman football coach Jayson Poppinga figured his team would be competitive in 2026, but lofty expectations from outside the Knights' locker room were essentially non-existent. That seemed to spark a flame during the quiet summer months, and when the…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (558+ words) Back in April, when South Dakota appeared to have a red-hot three-horse starting quarterback race, the Happy Hour host asked new head coach Matt Vitzthum how to pronounce the consonant-heavy last name of the redshirt freshman who was duking it…...