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26:41

Canaries legend Jabari Henry on chasing a title,...

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2025/09/17

He doesn't want to think about it. But how can he not? Over the next two games at The Birdcage on Thursday and Friday (maybe Saturday), the Canaries all-time GOAT and American Association's career home run king Jabari Henry has a chance to deliver Sioux Falls its first American Association league championship in 17 years, and second ever in the mostly-futile 33-year history of the club. The Birds are tied 1-1 with the Kane County Cougars (suburban Chicago), leaving a "best-of-three" scenario, with

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32:41

Travis Johansen on "resilient" win, Mr. 300 L.J....

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2025/09/17

Do the South Dakota Coyotes look like the national championship contender they plainly stated they wanted to be — and many FCS experts thought they would be — before this 2025 season started? Nope. Far from it, as anyone who has watched their offensively-challenged 1-2 start can plainly see. Why? Head coach Travis Johansen joined Happy Hour host John Gaskins for a deep dive into what is holding the Yotes back — particularly in the passing game — and what strides he is seeing to believe things will

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01:13:29

NLA: Zim on "underwhelming" Jacks win, Yotes'...

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2025/09/16

So far in this young football season, the Jackrabbits, Coyotes, and Vikings offenses — to varying degrees — continue to struggle to explode for big plays and satisfying full-game performances. At times, they implode. In the Yotes and Vikings cases, for full games. Gee, if only there was a local team to watch right now, in-person!, that has provided fireworks all season long, including a so-far spectacular postseason. Oh, wait, there is, and you don't even have to drive one to four hours to see

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01:28:27

FULL MONDAY SHOW: Dan Jackson, Kurtiss Riggs, and the...

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2025/09/15

Dan Jackson loves a good fight, and even more so loves one particular all-time world boxing champion. The first-year South Dakota State football coach made it home from Saturday's underwhelming 37-21 win over Drake on Saturday night to watch fellow Omaha native Terrance "Bud" Crawford capture another world title via 12-round decision. Before the Jackrabbits' home game, he showed his squad a Crawford highlight reel, feeling there is plenty to learn from the way Crawford fights and trains. After the

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25:09

John-o-logue: McCarthy out vs Bengals / Jacks, Yotes,...

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2025/09/15

Wait, what? Minnesota Vikings quarterback J.J. McCarthy is ruled out (sprained ankle) for Minnesota's game on Sunday against the Cincinnati Bengals. Head coach Kevin O'Connell cited an ankle sprain. Can we take this injury at face value or is it a "soft benching" as Minnesota picks up the pieces from a brutal loss to Atlanta and faces a Bengals squad without Joe Burrow, who was also hurt on Sunday and will miss at least three months with turf toe? Happy Hour host John Gaskins leans on the football

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37:23

Kurtiss Riggs on SDSU, USD, NDSU, UND, Gronowski,...

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2025/09/15

Every Monday during the football season, Happy Hour host John Gaskins will be joined for a breakdown of local football at all levels with veteran local college and prep TV analyst Kurtiss Riggs — the well-connected director of the Sanford Academy's football program and 11-time professional indoor championship coach of the Sioux Falls Storm. This week's topics: South Dakota State's 37-21 over non-scholarship Drake and why Jacks aren't delivering many haymakers or knockout punches in 3-0 start Why

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25:56

Dan Jackson on Drake win, finding more offensive...

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2025/09/15

Dan Jackson loves a good fight, and even more so loves one particular all-time world boxing champion. The first-year South Dakota State football coach made it home from Saturday's underwhelming 37-21 win over Drake on Saturday night to watch fellow Omaha native Terrance "Bud" Crawford capture another world title via 12-round decision. Before the Jackrabbits home game, he showed his squad a Crawford highlight reel tape, feeling there is plenty to learn from the way Crawford fights and trains for

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02:10:16

FULL THURSDAY SHOW: John Stiegelmeier & the Local...

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2025/09/12

It's good to be South Dakota State football legend John Stiegelmeier these days, now in his third football season as a retiree. And it's a treat to spend an hour with him to catch up. The football program he toiled for 35 years and eventually turned into an FCS national champion celebrated a monster road win at Montana State on Saturday, and he is ever proud of his former assistants Dan Jackson, Eric Eidsness, and Brian Bergstrom running the show. He also beams with pride and enjoys watching former

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01:07:03

Thirsty Thursday Football Forecast (local college &...

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2025/09/11

What didn't look like a big game on the schedule before the season kicked off is all of a sudden a massive game for the South Dakota Coyotes. Now 0-2 after an ugly road loss at unranked Lamar in which USD mustered just three second half points, the Coyotes finally get a home game in the comfy confines of the Dakota Dome against an unranked FCS team that was 1-11 last year. But Northern Colorado had FBS Colorado State beat on a touchdown pass with 10 seconds remaining before it was called back last

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01:03:14

John Stiegelmeier (FULL) on Jacks' 2-0 start,...

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2025/09/11

It's good to be South Dakota State football legend John Stiegelmeier these days, now in his third football season as a retiree. And it's a treat to spend an hour with him to catch up. The football program he toiled for 35 years to eventually turned into an FCS national champion celebrated a monster road win at Montana State on Saturday, and is he ever proud of his former assistants Dan Jackson, Eric Eidsness, and Brian Bergstrom running the show. He also beams with pride and enjoys watching former

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01:04:17

FULL WEDNESDAY SHOW: Travis Johansen (USD), Mike...

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2025/09/10

Poor Mark Gronowski. South Dakota State's two-time national championship, Walter Payton Award quarterback is getting dragged through the mud by Iowa fans and national pundits alike. The "Two Million Dollar Man" has thrown for the fewest passing yards (127) by a Big Ten quarterback through his first two games. Ever. By 50 yards. He pilots a Hawkeye offense that is 135th of 136 FBS teams with 65 passing yards per game, with the next-worst "Power Four" team gaining twice the total. But how much of

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24:25

John-o-logue: Blame Ferentz for Gronowski's record...

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2025/09/10

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17:49

Canaries manager Mike Meyer on EPIC playoff series...

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2025/09/10

Sports do not get much sweeter, if not sappier, than the too-corny-for-movies way the Sioux Falls Canaries took down their league's best team, the Sioux City Explorers, on the road in the first round of the playoffs. Having been flattened 5-0 at home in Game 1 and then nine outs away from their season coming to a crushing end (down 5-2 in the seventh inning of Game 2), the Birds exploded for 14 runs in two innings to win 16-8 and tie the series, then blew out the Explorers 7-2 in Sioux City the

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22:03

Travis Johansen on USD's loss at Lamar, "growth in...

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2025/09/10

It is one thing to field 20 minutes of questions about your football team if it has started 2-0 and scored a dramatic, massive road win against one of the top programs and most hostile environments in the country. It is another thing to field over 20 minutes of questions after a mistake-filled, offensively sputtering 20-13 road loss to an unranked team to fall to 0-2. First year South Dakota head coach Travis Johansen answered directly, decisively, and deftly the questions surrounding the Coyotes

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01:01:16

NLA: Zim on SDSU's Montana conquest, J.J. McCarthy's...

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2025/09/09

Winners win, because that's what winners do. That has been the slogan for University of Sioux Falls football ever since Bob Young started the 30-year tradition of winning seasons — with only one exception — 30 years ago. It is a slogan Kalen DeBoer, then a USF star receiver, carried into his 67-3 head coaching stint after replacing Young in 2005 and then eventually as head coach at Fresno State, Washington, and Alabama (combined 57-14 record). On Saturday night in Montana and Monday night at Soldier

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01:37:38

FULL MONDAY SHOW - Dan Jackson, Sam Herder (FCS HERO...

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2025/09/08

Welcome to college football head coaching, Dan Jackson! Or, perhaps we should say, "Welcome to Dan Jackson, college football!" The No. 2-ranked Jackrabbits' new field boss is 2-0 after a thrilling, "gritty" gut check double overtime win at No. 3 Montana State on Saturday night, a game he says he and SDSU players will remember the rest of their lives. In a 20-minute conversation with Happy Hour host John Gaskins, Jackson takes us to the sideline for the fourth-and-1 stop near the goal line and the

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44:49

John-o-logue: SDSU & Canaries score two of the...

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2025/09/08

Why does John call the Jacks' win in Bozeman one of the greatest in SDSU history, and consider Chase Mason already a "star?" What boxes did the Jacks check to be considered a national title contender again? What do we make of two struggling quarterbacks of local interest — USD's Aidan Bouman and Iowa's Mark Gronowski — after they and their offensive teammates sputtered in Week 2road losses? Finally, in case you missed it, like the Jackrabbits, the Canaries scored one of their biggest wins in team

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33:54

Sam Herder (FCS Hero Sports) on SDSU's win at MSU,...

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2025/09/08

While it was a thrilling, inspiring win for SDSU, how does an objective observer of the FCS view the Jackrabbits' journey to Bozeman? Veteran FCS reporter, writer and podcaster Sam Herder of HERO Sports made the trip and describes the atmosphere, how both teams played, and what the victory means going forward for SDSU and the entire subdivision. How close to SDSU's national championship outfits does this mostly-new cast of characters appear? Why is North Dakota State still worthy of a No. 1 ranking

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18:55

Dan Jackson on Montana State win, overcoming 8 months...

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2025/09/08

Welcome to college football head coaching, Dan Jackson! Or, perhaps we should say, "Welcome to Dan Jackson, college football!" The No. 2-ranked Jackrabbits' new field boss is 2-0 after a thrilling, "gritty" gut check double overtime win at No. 3 Montana State on Saturday night, a game he says he and SDSU players will remember the rest of their lives. Jackson takes us to the sideline for the fourth-and-1 stop near the goal line and the chain measurement that determined SDSU had won the game. What did

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01:54:59

FULL THURSDAY SHOW: Chase Mason, USF's Coach Glo &...

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2025/09/05

Ask Chase Mason about his performance in his first career South Dakota State start, or about his cohesion with a lot of other new starters on his offense, or Montana State's defense — you know, standard game week interview fare — and he gives thoughtful yet concise answers. Ask the Jackrabbits' uber-talented quarterback about what new head coach Dan Jackson and late running back Nate White mean to him and SDSU, and Mason gives you particularly deep, profound insight and stories. Thursday's 30-minute

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