A La Niña winter just started, but it isn’t expected to last long. National forecasters are already looking ahead to the spring season.

Eric Eidsness and Dan Jackson took jobs at Northern Illinois. Jason Eck was named head coach of Idaho. Brian Bergstrom became head coach of Winona State, Rob Erickson at Wisconsin-Eau Claire. Northwestern scooped up young offensive coordinator Zach Lujan and defensive line coach Christian Smith.

The seventh “Hockey Day South Dakota” celebrated hockey in the state on Saturday and featured four games in the Denny Sanford. Click on the video viewer to watch highlights of one of those games featuring: -Sioux Falls West Flyers boys defeating the Mitchell Marlins 5-1.

Paopao comes to Idaho from NCAA Division II Augustana (S.D.) where he was the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach the past two seasons, helping lead the Vikings to back-to-back NSIC titles.

WSU’s wide receivers coach is Jake Menage, who coached the Jackrabbits’ WRs each of the previous two years. The Cougars’ safeties coach is Menage’s cousin, Pete Menage, who worked the same job at SDSU the past two seasons.

Jacksonville St. at Sam Houston St., 3 p.m. Wichita St. at North Texas, 3 p.m. Alcorn St. at Texas Southern, 4 p.m. BYU at Texas Tech, 7 p.m. Grand Canyon at Tarleton St., 8 p.m. Fresno St. at Air Force, 3 p.m. New Mexico at Colorado St., 3 p.m.

A few short years ago, the South Dakota State coaching staff was teeming with candidates to one day replace program patriarch John Stiegelmeier. But as the Jackrabbits rose to FCS prominence and won consecutive national championships in 2022 and 2023,

Illinois is up to double-digit transfer additions this offseason after officially signing Idaho offensive lineman Ayden Knapik, South Dakota State tight end Davin Stoffel and Purdue punter Keelan Crimmins on Thursday.

A month after filing a formal comment lettering opposing the request, Attorney General Gentner Drummond announce that theU.S. Environmental Protection Agency (

Some of the balloons people see floating over Wyoming aren’t Chinese spy efforts, they’re from South Dakota. One balloon was a floating cellphone

Several members of Washington State head coach Jimmy Rogers’ staff have been reported, but the Cougars made things official on Friday, announcing nine of 10 full-time position coaches.

In his introductory news conference on Thursday, Rogers laid out a vision for a program that recruits the Pacific Northwest and the Midwest, an offense that attacks the width of the field and runs the ball, a defense that rotates its linemen and a team that will build on the spirit of the players already in the building.