It’s funny, the things we anticipate … and it’s a pity when they come up short of expectations. Like when your favorite team gets the number-one draft pick and he turns out to be a bust or …

The newspaper industry has seen some significant changes since 1998. Back then, there was barely an Internet, Facebook and social media were some distance away and the best metric for potential …

There’s a purity in sports that we simply cannot find many places in this modern world of ours. Sure, there is plentiful beauty to be seen wherever you look but it’s almost more-easily and …

You ever miss something that you were 100-percent CERTAIN was long-gone? Typically, these items are snacks from our youths … which offered us our first real taste of satisfaction. But this feeling …

It’s easy to walk through life with blinders on, never truly knowing what’s around you until it is right in front of your face. The things that are on the periphery don’t come into focus …

Sometimes, the interjection “WOW!” just doesn’t quite cover it. Having been on-site for the South Heart versus Belfield girls’ basketball game on Jan. 20, with all the passion and effort …

You know what it’s like when you’ve been gone from home for a little while? You miss family, friends, definitely weather, food and familiarity. Strangely enough it’s mostly in that order, and …

We don’t expect a lot out of this world, when it comes right down to it. Most of us are quite happy with our jobs and family lives, and while it’s never a bad thing to hope for more, we don’t …

Technically speaking, the world and words of sports media are just chock-full of metaphors, and they generally describe the grittiness of a tough play or a challenge bested by any variety of efforts. …

There are such things as passive observation and active observation, with the one being an ambient presence – looking from the outside-in at any activity or event – while others have that …

The Earth’s cir cumference is almost 25,000 miles and it moves at about 1,000 miles-per-hour. While there are planes with large enough gas tanks to fly laterally across the Pacific Ocean, they …

Driving in North Dakota gives a person some significant time to reflect on things, what with all the distance between destinations and the picturesque countryside and all. The roads never seem to …

While the modern melding of profession al sports and gambling – and college, to a less er degree – are taking a turn for the worse (which was as predict able as sunrise), those of us who …

While many com munities have abun dant diversity and some regions bear no physical resemblance to one-another, there are patterns, person alities and tendencies that emerge regardless of how far one …