GRAND FORKS (AP) — A recent NCAA study indicates that the University of North Dakota will have a difficult time keeping its athletic department in the black as the school moves to Division I competition. The NCAA study said that in fiscal 2006, only… more »

As many of the UND athletic teams spend the summer prepping for the first season of bigger, tougher Division I opponents, the school’s athletic department is preparing for a bigger, tougher Division I budget. The athletic budget, which was nearly $9.… more »

UND and other programs moving to NCAA Division I this fall want as smooth a transition as possible. A key to that smooth move is finding a conference. So, instead of waiting for a conference to add them, they might just create their own. UND, Sout… more »

It took Weston Dressler only a matter of weeks to make an impact during his freshman season at UND. Nothing has changed now that Dressler is a professional football player. Dressler not only made the Saskatchewan Roughriders’ 46-man roster, but th… more »

The University of South Dakota is making an effort with several other independent Division I schools to form an all-sports conference, athletic director Joel Nielsen said Monday. USD, which will be an independent Division I transitional school next s… more »

GRAND FORKS, N.D. - Former University of North Dakota football player Bobby Stroup has been ordered to serve a short jail term and do community service after pleading guilty to disorderly conduct and fleeing law enforcement. Both charges against the… more »

All-sports league would include other independents, North Dakota The University of South Dakota is making an effort with several other independent Division I schools to form an all-sports conference, athletic director Joel Nielsen said Monday. USD… more »

Editor's note: After 87 years of setting a high standard for NCAA Division II athletic success, the North Central Conference will bid farewell at a celebration gala in Sioux Falls on Saturday. To put the league's past in perspective and honor its con… more »

The plans of the Great West Football conference may include the possibility of becoming an all-sports conference. EDINBURG - The University of Texas-Pan American is looking west in its decade-long search for conference affiliation. Great West Comm… more »

With so many new faces, uncertainties abound on the SIU football team's practice field. Many are wondering what to expect from a program that came within a few minutes of going to the Football Championship Series title game last season. The biggest q… more »

The Grand Forks Herald's Wayne Nelson talks a little bit about the history of the now-defunct NCC Division II conference - the conference that gave FCS North Dakota, North Dakota State, South Dakota, South Dakota State, Northern Iowa, and Northern Color… more »

Ending his high-school football career last fall in a loss against Newberry High was one of the toughest things Isaac Harris has had to do. “You put so much work into everything, and you try so hard, and you leave it all on the field,” the Gilbert Hi… more »

The Canadian high-school star will be competing to kick on the Fightin' Sioux. Brett Cameron will take one last kick at playing quarterback with his high school peers before taking his talented leg south. The St. Paul's Crusaders QB/K/P will compe… more »

UND’s move to NCAA Division I football in the fall will take place without one of its marquee players. UND announced Tuesday that sophomore running back Ryan Chappell has been declared academically ineligible for the 2008 season — the school’s first… more »

CEDAR FALLS — Terry Wanless has hired and fired coaches. He has dealt with budget concerns, gender equity issues and academic struggles. Unlike the other four finalists for the vacant Northern Iowa athletic director position, Wanless has also been th… more »