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Marc Mariani said earlier this week that Pro Bowl traditions for rookies include players who make the least amount of money pick up plenty of tabs during their stay in Hawaii. So while he may be out some bucks when he leaves Honolulu, he'll still be leaving with plenty to smile about. Although the NFC pounded Mariani's AFC squad 55-41 Sunday afternoon in Hawaii, the Tennessee Titans receiver and former Blue Pony star left his own mark on the game by returning nine kickoffs for an astounding 326 yards — both new Pro Bowl r...
Havre Daily News/Nikki Carlson For the North Star girls and Chinook boys high school track teams, this weekend in Missoula is about chasing state championship dreams. For many local athletes, it will also be about getting to the top of that medal stand. Missoula is the site of the Class C state track meet today and Saturday, and while many local athletes will be in attendance, it's the Knights and Sugarbeeters who might have the most to gain. The North Star girls have been building toward this season for quite some time, and...
Emotion. In basketball, it can be a double-edged sword. Emotion can carry a team to victory, or it can hinder it's performance. However, one way or another, the next two nights at the MSU-Northern Fieldhouse will be emotional. That's because the Montana State University-Northern women's basketball team is playing its final two home games of the 2011 season, and that means seniors Samm Schermele and Taylor Keller are seeing their last days in a gym they've become famous for playing in over the last four years. And Northern is...
There have been many big Frontier Conference men's basketball games at the MSU-Northern Fieldhouse over the years. But none may be bigger than the next two for the Montana State University-Northern Lights. Tonight at 8, the Lights play host to No. 16 Westminster College, one of three teams the Lights are currently tied with for first place in the Frontier Conference. Northern also faces Lewis-Clark State in a regular season finale Saturday night at 8 p.m. And in those two games, all that's at stake is a possible regular...
GREAT FALLS — In your first game of the divisional tournament, slow starts and jangled nerves aren't uncommon. But for the first time in years, tournament experience played a key role in a Chinook boys basketball victory. The 9C champion Sugarbeeters shrugged off early shooting woes and wound up with a comfortable 59-48 Northern C opening-round win over Stanford-Geyser on Thursday afternoon at the Four Seasons Arena in Great Falls. The Beeters used torrid shooting in the second and third quarters to win going away. But m...
The high school basketball season is in the books, but plenty of local high school girls are still making headlines. Along the Hi-Line, several girls hoopsters have been honored for their play this season. In District 1B, Rocky Boy's Caitlyn Gamble earned District 1B second-team all-conference honors for 2010-11. Gamble is a 6-0 sophomore starter for the Morning Stars, and she averaged 13 points and six rebounds per game this year, but was instrumental in Rocky Boy's run down the stretch by averaging 18 points per game in...
Boys basketball in the Northern B was as good as it gets this season. With yet another state champion coming out of the Northern B in Wolf Point, as well as great teams like Shelby, Rocky Boy and Cut Bank to name a few, this year was as good as ever on the Hi-Line. And this past week, several local players from the Northern B were honored for this past season. Rocky Boy seniors Lesin Oats and Garrett Lafromboise were both named Class B All-State for the 2010-11 season. The Stars were again magical, going 19-5 and finishing...
AFSCME supports Wisconsin public sector workers Editor: Wisconsin public service workers... we hear you, and we support you. Montana AFSCME Council 9 is part of America's largest union, with 1.6 million members that provide vital services that make Montana and America happy. With members in hundreds of occupations — from nurses to corrections officers, child-care providers to sanitation workers, from officers to attorneys — AFSCME is the voice of the dedicated workers who take care of America and is a leading advocate for...
Senate Bill 13 threatens state parks Editor: Senate Bill 13 has cleared the Senate Finance and Claims Committee and will be voted on by the Montana Senate in the coming days. The bill would change current Montana law that provides more than $2.5 million for state parks. Currently, Montana residents are assessed an optional $4 fee when they register a light vehicle, with the option to opt-out when they pay their vehicle registration. More than 80 percent of Montanans choose to pay this fee, allowing them to be admitted free to...
Anyone wondering if the young, but talented Montana State University-Northern wrestling team was ready for the 2011 NAIA postseason – the Lights answered those questions on Saturday. The No. 8 Lights put together an outstanding day Saturday in Prescott, Ariz., wrestling to a second-place finish at the Western regional, and almost knocking off Southern Oregon in the process. The Lights scored 135.5 points to SOU's 138 points at the regional tournament, which turned out to be great preparation for the upcoming NAIA national t...
Friday afternoon was a big day for the Chinook girls basketball team. The Sugarbeeters had a chance to advance to their first 9C girls championship, and they took full advantage, beating the Big Sandy Pioneers 38-35 in a wild semifinal game. Chinook led 8-6 after the first quarter and the game was nip and tuck throughout. Big Sandy regained the lead early in the second behind two quick buckets from Mackenzie Jenkins, but late in the half, the Beeters again forged ahead and led 16-13 at the end of a low-scoring 16 minutes....
Beating the same team twice in three days is a tall order for any girls basketball program. But it's an even bigger task when success hasn't exactly come easy for during the last decade of play at the District 9C girls basketball tournament. Yet, that's exactly what the Hays-Lodge Pole Thunderbirds did. On Saturday afternoon at the Havre High gymnasium, the T-Birds bested the North Star Knights 51-47 in the 9C consolation game. The win was the second in three days fro HLP over the Knights and it was also the T-Birds best...
The postseason is underway for Class B and C boys basketball teams. The Class A postseason is a week away and the Class AA's are busy sorting out seeding for the state tournament. So this week will be the final Havre Daily News Super 15 Polls. It's been fun ranking teams and now it's time to start finding out who the best of the best really is in Montana. And by the second weekend in March, we'll know. The final Super 15 girls poll has Bozeman sitting atop the standings, and six Class AA teams ranked in the top 10. Unbeaten...
And just like that, the postseason is here. But this postseason is a little bit different for the Montana State University-Northern wrestling team. On Saturday, the Lights will be in Prescott, Ariz., for the Western regional, the final qualifier for the NAIA national tournament, which will be in two weeks. And while the Lights might not be favored to bring home the top spot on Saturday, or a national championship, third-year head coach Tyson Thivierge's team is in a much better spot than it was last season when the Lights...
The Montana State University-Northern women's basketball team suffered its share of heartache during last weekend's back-to-back home losses. And things didn't get any easier on Thursday night. In Billings Thursday night, the Skylights fell 59-58 in a thriller to Rocky Mountain College, and with the loss, all hope of playing at home in the upcoming Frontier Conference playoffs is likely gone. But as difficult and disappoint as Thursday's loss to the Bears, the bright spot was, the skylights played well, but just came up...
Winning on the road is never easy. Winning on the road this season in the Frontier Conference, even more difficult. But the Montana State University-Northern men's basketball team did just that, and in the process, exercised some demons from a year ago. Last season, it was Rocky Mountain College which beat the Lights in Havre on the last weekend of the regular season. That game likely kept the Lights out of the NAIA tourney, but on Thursday night in Billings, the Lights got a huge win on the Battling Bears home floor as...
After covering the District 9C boys and girls basketball tournament since 2002, it was interesting to wait until Thursday night for this year's 9C extravaganza to begin. I was a little unsure of the new schedule, simply because the 9C tournament is so big to so many people, and besides the basketball, it's generally a week-long celebration of our area, the communities, the fans and the kids. So to wait until Thursday seemed a little odd. And, basketball at 8 a.m. on Saturday morning? Ouch! But it didn't take more than five...
It was a rough start for both the 9C Turner Tornadoes and North Star Knights, but somebody had to win. The Knights entered the tournament as the No. 3 seed taking on the No. 6 seed Tornadoes Thursday night at the Havre High gymnasium. But just as many people expected, no game in the 9C is an easy win this year. North Star overcame a sluggish start to grab the 63-40 first round win on Thursday. And with the win the Knights will next face Big Sandy at 8 p.m. tonight. But the game was close for the entire first half. The Knights...
Consistency. That's a word which is firmly entrenched in Montana State University-Northern head coach Shawn Huse' vocabulary. He preaches it to his players and assistant coaches. He lives by it in all things, and he means it. But over the last nine years in Havre, that word could also best describe Huse and his coaching tenure at Northern. In essence, since the day Huse arrived in Havre, almost a decade ago, the Lights, the program and everything surrounding MSU-Northern basketball has been very consistent, and that's a...
The Montana State University-Northern women's basketball team had been here before. A big lead, late in the game against a dangerous UM-Western team. And like before, the Bulldogs did the unthinkable yet again. On Friday night at the MSU-Northern Fieldhouse, the Bulldogs erased a 14-point second-half deficit and beat the Skylights 72-69 in the final minute of the game. Northern has lost similar games to Western in several seasons recently. "It's disappointing because we were really in control and felt like we were playing...
If the Montana State University-Northern men's basketball team had a any type of monkey on its back this season, it was the UM-Western Bulldogs. However, after a thrilling last-second victory over the 19th-ranked Bulldogs Friday night at the MSU-Northern Fieldhouse, it's gone. The No. 25 Lights beat the Bulldogs on a high floating shot by Devin Jackson with just four seconds left in the Friday night's showdown between the top two teams in the league. Just before Jackson's shot, Western's Brandon Brown nailed a cold-blooded...
The Havre High boys and girls swim teams have filled the trophy cases in the West Fourier at the HHS gymnasium over the years. Now, the blue Ponies are trying to add even more hardware to their already overfull shrine at HHS. And as the 2011 All-Class State Swim Meet gets underway today in Butte, both HHS teams have something to prove in the pool this weekend. The Havre High boys are coming off a state championship season from a year ago and the Ponies would like nothing more than to repeat. Meanwhile, the HHS girls' streak...
Bow Wow Boarding moving on Editor: Bow Wow Boarding is closing at the end of March. I will miss all of you and your people. I will now have to start washing my face at night instead of relying on all the dog kisses. Great for the skin! I loved my so-called job. My job was to love your dogs while you were gone in your stressful times or joyful times. I was excited for you for the joyful times and my heart hurt when you had to travel for sad times. But most of all, you trusted me with your dogs to be second mamma in command...
Hansen's bill is poorly hidden homophobia Editor: Tonight I read with interest and humor and frustration the letter from the president of the Montana Family Foundation. Some praise for Rep. Hansen is indeed appropriate because she is a fine lawyer and finally found what he feels is a legitimate reason to undermine the concern for homosexual discrimination. I would hardly fit the description of a homosexual activist, but I am certainly aware that Montana has a group of homophobic people, and I pray we don't end up with our own...
Warburton should know the House rules Editor: Rep. Warburton stood against citizens who had come to testify on legislation in front of the House Judiciary Committee by supporting the committee chairman, Rep. Peterson, R-Billings, in denying them a right to come to the podium and state their name and whether they were for or against a pending bill. Warburton has been a member long enough to know that the House rules and Mason's Manual gives that right to everyone wanting to participate in the hearing. She blindly supported her...
