As Kyle LeDuc prepared to end a successful high school wrestling career and move onto collegiate athletics, he had several possibilities open to him. He could attend NDSU, where he would be a Division I athlete; he could choose St. Cloud State, which would offer him a Division II-level wrestling program; or, he could attend…
Concordia College head football coach Terry Horan and the rest of his staff expect their players to be tough. They expect them to give hits just as hard as they take them. They also expect them to put their own safety above all else. To make sure that happens, the coaching staff educates the team…
Family Weekend brought crowds of Cobber moms, dads and siblings to Concordia’s campus last weekend. While the Family Weekend Committee strove to make this year’s event a memorable one, it was the football team that really put the icing on the cake, beating St. John’s in Saturday’s game—a feat they hadn’t managed at home since…
Four thousand miles—give or take a few hundred. That’s how far away from home junior Ben Wagner travelled to become a student at Concordia. Wagner, a native of France, had been to the United States twice before enrolling at Concordia—once as a camper at a language camp in Los Angeles, and again as a foreign…
This time of year, I focus a lot more on baseball and tend to ignore everything relating to football. But there is one story line that I found interesting. Over the past month, the story regarding the New Orleans Saints and their “bounty hunting” has been unfolding. In case you missed it, coaches and players…
The Cobber football team’s season comes to a close this weekend in Northfield against St. Olaf. There will be a lot of “what ifs” looking back on this year for the team, but there are some positive things to build on for the future. There was a great deal of promise right from the first…
I’m late; I’m late for a very important date. The opening week of the National Football League has come and gone, and I haven’t screamed my all-important predictions to the world. But better late than never, as I tell my employers. So here are my predictions, in all of their glory, for each division, both…