Nathan Swaffar

1 week ago | sports.yahoo.com | Nathan Swaffar

May 30—SIOUX FALLS — Silas Holdeman finished his last 3,200-meter race of the 2025 season where he's been most of the year. Strides ahead of the rest of the field. One of the best long-distance runners in the state, the Golden Eagle sophomore captured his second straight state title in the Class B boys 3,200-meter run on Friday at Howard Wood Field. AdvertisementHoldeman's time of 9:42.63 was a personal best, topping second-place Gabe Johnson (9:48.96) of North Central by more than six seconds.

1 week ago | mitchellrepublic.com | Nathan Swaffar

SIOUX FALLS — Silas Holdeman finished his last 3,200-meter race of the 2025 season where he's been most of the year. Strides ahead of the rest of the field. One of the best long-distance runners in the state, the Golden Eagle sophomore captured his second straight state title in the Class B boys 3,200-meter run on Friday at Howard Wood Field. Holdeman’s time of 9:42.63 was a personal best, topping second-place Gabe Johnson (9:48.96) of North Central by more than six seconds.

1 week ago | mitchellrepublic.com | Nathan Swaffar

BROOKINGS — The 2025 Interstate Series between the South Dakota State and South Dakota football teams will once again be broadcast to a nationally televised audience. The Jackrabbits and Coyotes will meet on Nov. 8 in the DakotaDome. That will be broadcast on one of the ESPN networks, but the time and network decision will come at a later date. The two teams played an overtime contest in 2024 in Brookings that was televised on ESPNU, which the Jacks won 20-17.

1 week ago | siouxfallslive.com | Nathan Swaffar |Jordan Roemeling

A group of South Dakota health care advocates launched a “Hands Off Medicaid” coalition Thursday, pleading with the state’s all-Republican congressional delegation to avoid proposed cuts. Medicaid is a federal-state health care program for low-income people. A U.S. House-approved budget reconciliation bill would reduce the program by $625 billion over 10 years under an estimate by the Congressional Budget Office.

1 week ago | mitchellrepublic.com | Nathan Swaffar

VERMILLION, S.D. — Long before spring practice began and the chaos of the transfer portal during this period was in full swing, University of South Dakota head football coach Travis Johansen knew he had work to do. After losing numerous seniors to graduation last year, the freshly minted head coach knew he wanted to focus more on the spring portal period to reload the roster at the beginning of the year.