Football

Wadena-Deer Creek's Logan Meyer earned Heart O' Lakes Conference Classic first team honors for the 2010 football season. Meyer split his time between running back and linebacker. Wideout Jordan Rentz, defensive end Cory Tumberg and linebacker Jared Wegscheid all received honorable...

Shoving Brad Childress out the door was a sign by Zygi and Mark Wilf that big changes are in the wind for the Minnesota Vikings. Among the usual tripe regarding the sacking of Brad Childress this week there have been some good observations. I just hope the Wilfs read some of the...

The Wadena Area Youth Football League will play at Mall of America Field at 10 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 21, prior to the Minnesota Vikings-Green Bay Packers football game.

Football Section Quarterfinals Breckenridge 42, Wadena-Deer Creek 0 Otter Tail Central 12, West Central Area 0 Barnesville 2, Parkers Prairie 0 (forfeit) East Grand Forks 14, Staples-Motley 6 Pelican Rapids 27, United North Central 0 Bertha-Hewitt 28, Osakis 0 Underwood 22,...

Zack Meidinger scored his first two touchdowns of the year Wednesday night as the Verndale Pirates trounced Lincoln High 38-6 in the regular season finale for both clubs. The victory snapped a string of five straight losses by the defending Section 4, Class Nine-man champions. Meidinger,...

The eighth-ranked Wadena-Deer Creek Wolverines will travel to No. 1 Breckenridge at 6 p.m. Tuesday as the Section 6AA football playoffs. Other first round games will see No. 4 Crosby-Ironton hosting No. 5 Holdingford, No, 3 Otter Tail Central hosting No. 6 West Central Area and No....

Football Warroad 29, Wadena-Deer Creek 13 Verndale 38, Lincoln HI 6 Royalton 42, Parkers Prairie 7 Clinton-Graceville-Beardlsey 36, Bertha-Hewitt 0 USA 47, United North Central 12 Pillager 36, New York Mills 14 Breckenridge 27, Staples-Motley 20 East Grand Forks 28, Perham...

Preston Kappes fired two touchdown passes and ran for a third as the Breckenridge Cowboys racked up a 28-0 halftime lead last Friday as they cruised to a 48-7 Homecoming victory over Wadena-Deer Creek. Kappes found Blake Anderson-Wilcox on touchdown passes of nine and 17 yards. He...