Football

Verndale's Dillon Card has been selected to the 2014 Minnesota Class Nine-man All-State football team. The 6-5, 225-pound standout helped the Pirates reach the Section 4 championship game during the season. Joining Card on the Nine-man team's offensive squad were Noah Thompson,...

Now that Adrian Peterson is going to be a spectator for the rest of the 2014 season, perhaps the rest of the National Football League's corporate liabilities will get the idea and shape up. Roger Goodell put his foot down last week and suspended the Minnesota star for the rest...

Dillon Card and Seth Zins have been named the Pheasant Conference's Most Valuable back and lineman respectively for the 2014 season. Card quarterbacked the Pirates. He completed 72 of his 128 aerials for 1,029 yards and 12 touchdowns. He also ran 144 times for 834 yards and 14...

Wadena-Deer Creek's Zach Schertler and Sutton Lohmiller were named to the Mid-State's All-Conference team for the 2014 football season. WDC gridders earning honorable mention were Michael Moen and Isaac Malone. Other post-season team honors went to Wyatt Fitzsimmons (Enthusiasm)...

Many Nine-man football fans have been patiently waiting for this Friday's Section 4 championship game at the Fargodome. The 12:30 p.m. showdown in Fargo was practically a done deal at the time Verndale and Underwood met in their regular season game Sept. 5. That overtime...

A page has turned in the lives of two of Minnesota's most popular sports figures this fall and you have to ask yourself if their lives will ever be the same again. Adrian Peterson's switching of his four-year-old son put the NFL superstar in the dog house midway through September....

The Wadena-Deer Creek football program, along with the Randy Shaver Cancer Research and Community Fund, have teamed up to host its first-ever "Tackle Cancer" night, Sept. 19 when the WDC Wolverines match up with the Osakis Silverstreaks. Kickoff is slated for 7 p.m. at WDC football...

The Wolverine Summer Football Camps are slated for July 29-30 and Aug. 4-6 at the Wadena-Deer Creek High School practice field. Grades 9-12 will be go from 6 to 9 p.m. in the July session. Grades 7-8 are slated for the 9 to 11 a.m. camp in August. Grades 5-6 will go in the...