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Happy Hour with John Gaskins

John Gaskins

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01:34:46

Tom Billeter on his new job in Kansas, building...

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2025/07/08

There are many reasons for Augustana's ascension from a struggling North Central Conference underdog in most sports to a national Div. II athletics titan. Tom Billeter's building of men's basketball is near the top of those reasons, as Matt Zimmer wrote a year ago when Billeter left for Emporia State. From his arrival in 2003 — when the Vikings were 14 years removed from their last NCAA Tournament and literally had run out of basketballs — to his departure last year after 21 seasons and 393 wins,

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53:35

Gary Weckwerth, Part 1 - KELO-TV days (working with...

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2025/07/07

Maybe you know him as that guy that took over for legendary Sioux Falls sportscaster Jim Burt on the KELO-TV news in the 1980's. Maybe you know him as the guy that teammed with Pat O'Brien — then, a well-established national broadcaster on CBS Sports — and Mark Ovenden for the broadcast of the first-ever Sioux Falls Skyforce game in 1989. Maybe you know him as the guy that hosted the first South Dakota State football weekly TV show, starting in the 1990's with Mike Daly. You most likely know him as

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55:00

Gary Weckwerth, Part 2 - Canaries & Stampede...

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2025/07/07

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01:48:34

FULL CHAT - Gary Weckwerth (KELO-TV, Canaries &...

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2025/07/07

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01:03:44

Disabled American Veteran of the Year '23 and Iraq...

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2025/07/04

On this Fourth of July day (and long weekend) when we celebrate America's independence and all those who have fought for our freedom in the Armed Forces, Happy Hour found it appropriate to bring back for an encore a February conversation with a true American badass — forgive our language, but that's the best way to describe her — Staff Sgt. Kim Hubers, the 2023 Disabled American Veteran of the Year. The last time the Iraq War veteran was in New Orleans, she spent six weeks helping clean up the

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01:06:25

Augie & SDSU legend Jim Heinitz on his unique...

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2025/07/03

There are few better examples of walking, breathing South Dakota football history than Jim Heinitz, a recent inductee into the South Dakota Sports Hall of Fame. The southwest Minnesota native came to play for South Dakota State in 1968 and has spent nearly 60 years since making football programs better and communities stronger through his coaching, business ventures, and both community and political service that included time as mayor of Brandon. Heinitz is most famous for turning perennial North

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01:38:06

FULL WEDNESDAY: Buzz at The Birdcage — Patrick Lalley...

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2025/07/02

Bad news for those who were hoping for a new downtown baseball stadium in Sioux Falls: It isn't happening. Public sentiment and political forces in the city drove the Canaries owners' movement for that away, as the city-purchased "Riverline District," for now, is set to be occupied by a new convention center (with plenty of financial and political obstacles to overcome first). Good news, though, for Canaries fans and baseball lovers: The current 61-year-old city baseball stadium on the Events Center

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01:03:25

Future of aging Birdcage and Canaries future in Sioux...

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2025/07/02

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John-o-logue: Buzz at The Birdcage as Canaries keep...

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2025/07/02

Perhaps you're familiar with the "Sports Illustrated jinx" from a past era, when your favorite team likely lost the next game after it appeared on the cover of the once-revered magazine. More modernly, you're likely familiar with the "Madden jinx" — dawn the cover of the video game and you'll get hurt or your team will tank shortly thereafter. But when it comes to Happy Hour with John Gaskins, at least on Tuesday, it is a reverse affect: The "Happy Hour Hike." Or Happy Hour Buzz, or whatever. There

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01:29:37

FULL TUESDAY SHOW: Gronowski's grand stage / Canaries...

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2025/07/01

Augustana's best-ever baseball slugger is now an All-Star shortstop for the Sioux Falls Canaries and one of the best players the American Association of Professional Baseball. Before that, he was one of the best racquetball players in the world. At age 16. In an hour-long chat from Gateway Lounge with Happy Hour host John Gaskins, Jordan Barth takes us into both his baseball world full of fun stories in the dugout and on long bus trips, to his former life as a prodigy of the sport from age 6 to 16,

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28:10

John-o-logue: Gronowski's national attention / Other...

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2025/07/01

South Dakotans and Iowans aren't the football fans eager to see how Mark Gronowski's magical four years of throwing darts, running for paydirt, and winning FCS national championships will translate to the sports highest level. The senior graduate transfer may not just be a Million Dollar Man (reportedly) for the Iowa Hawkeyes. Happy Hour host John Gaskins thinks he could become a game-changer for the program... maybe even a "God." How? Just listen to what Andy Staples and Ari Wasserman, a couple

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01:01:27

Canaries All-Star & Augie national champ Jordan Barth...

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2025/07/01

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01:19:42

FULL MONDAY SHOW: ESPN buffoonery, NDSU opts in (Mike...

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2025/06/30

At long last, our national college football nightmare is over! Well, at least this one. Monday marked the deadline for schools to decide to "opt in" to the June 6-approved NCAA-House Settlement that allows colleges to directly pay athletes for the first time in history. Monday also marked the day the FCS 800 lb. Gorilla, North Dakota State, made its announcement that it is joining the three other Dakota schools on opting in. South Dakota's announcement came a couple weeks ago while SDSU and UND

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43:25

John-o-logue: Latest ESPN/SD jackassery, NDSU opts...

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2025/06/30

It's Monday in late June. The sports calendar is dry, almost dead. Well, unless you're a Twins fan. Or — yeah, they're dry and almost dead, too. But Happy Hour host John Gaskins has a full sports well to drink from, thanks to ESPN's latest jackassery of attempting to know or care about anything South Dakota sports. They put who on the Mount Rushmore of South Dakota athletes instead of who? And also, the John-o-logue river overfloweth thanks to the "Summer of Opt In" and NDSU's waiting until deadline

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Mike McFeely on NDSU & All Dakota schools opting in,...

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2025/06/30

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04:55

Justin Sell on the Nate White tragedy and SDSU's...

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2025/06/27

Tragedy struck South Dakota State's football program and campus on Wednesday when it was announced that running back Nate White had died at the age of 20. As of the publishing of this content, the cause of death has not been publicly determined or announced. Coaches and teammates had rushed to social media to honor White, while the Jackrabbit Former Players Association had raised $17,000 in about 36 hours to help White's family. White, a Milwaukee native, was a transfer from the University of

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49:44

Justin Sell returns to explain why SDSU is "opting...

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2025/06/27

At long last, we now know. South Dakota State has officially "opted in" to the NCAA-House Settlement deal that allows schools to directly pay athletes by sharing revenue the athletic department makes. The announcement comes three days before the deadline to opt in, and 10 days after rival South Dakota announced it was "in." In a 48-minute interview on Friday morning shortly before SDSU issued a statement to notify the media and public of its decision, SDSU athletic director Justin Sell joined Happy

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01:05:16

Zim: Nate White, SDSU/USD athlete pay & Crowds,...

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2025/06/26

What is there to say about South Dakota State running back Nate White's death, just over 24 hours after it was reported on Wednesday? The tragedy — with details yet public — rightfully hovers a cloud over the program, the FCS, and the regional sports scene, trivializing normal day-to-day events and hot sports topics. But "Nobody's Listening Anyway" hosts John Gaskins and Matt Zimmer make what they can about a 21-year-old transfer from Wisconsin who was expected to be the starter and gained a

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01:13:29

FULL INTERVIEW with USD A.D. Jon Schemmel (Paying...

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2025/06/25

So, the South Dakota Coyotes will now get to pay athletes directly starting July 1, thanks to USD athletic director Jon Schemmel's June 17 decision to "opt in" to the NCAA-House Settlement allowing revenue sharing to athletes for the first time. How does it all work? How much money will there be to share with athletes this year? Which athletes get the money? How much do they get? What does this mean for the major boosters and those who want to contribute more mildly, either to the athletic

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34:33

USD A.D. Jon Schemmel, part 2 - FCS vs FBS ("JV" vs...

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2025/06/25

It was the X (Twitter) shot heard 'round the FCS world last week. South Dakota athletic director Jon Schemmel fired back at Sacramento State president Kevin Wood, who had publicly called FCS football — where the Hornets reside — "JV" football. When the FBS oversight committee recommended the NCAA to deny SCSU's entry into the FBS ("varsity") Schemmel posted something that became hot fodder for FCS enthusiasts: "All of us JV programs are excited to compete against a varsity program!" (Since then,

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