COLUMN: Kobe’s ‘Vino Club’ memberships up for consideration

Sports commentators and fans weren’t the only ones buzzing about Peyton Manning’s seven-touchdown performance against the Baltimore Ravens Sept. 6. Following the game, five-time NBA champion Kobe Bryant tweeted out an unofficial announcement on the “Vino Club,” a group founded by Bryant himself that honors professional athletes and entertainers who “get better with age.” Bryant, […]

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Dakota Days vs. Hobo Day

Come Saturday, throngs of students, alumni and fans will crowd the bleachers in a burst of South Dakota pride for their Division-I university’s homecoming football game. In Brookings. And Vermillion. At the same time. Because this year, Hobo Day and Dakota Days overlap Oct. 5, begging the question: Whose attendance will suffer because of the […]

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Overheard

Here you’ll find the weirdest, funniest and stupidest things we’ve heard during the week. Context is for suckers. “Go strip or something, I don’t want to talk to you.” — The Volante Newsroom “You know, I haven’t humped you in a long time.” — University Street “Like he’s going to auction off an electronic cow.” […]

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