THURSDAY, JANUARY 17:
Men’s Basketball: South Dakota State @ Western Illinois (Live on Ranch AM910 @ 6:30)

Women’s Basketball: Western Illinois @ South Dakota State (Live on B93.7 @ 6:30)

Boys’ Basketball: Clark/Willow Lake @ Groton
   Deuel @ Aberdeen Roncalli
   Sioux Valley @ Chester
   Dell Rapids @ Madison
   Bridgewater-Emery @ Howard

Girls’ Basketball; Yankton @ Mitchell
   Deuel @ Aberdeen Roncalli
   Sioux Valley @ Chester
   Castlewood @ DeSmet
   Bridgewater-Emery @ Howard
   Dakota Valley Conference Tournament @ Elkton, Lake Preston
      @ Lake Preston 6:30pm:  Arlington vs. Lake Preston
      8:00pm:  Deubrook vs. Oldham-Ramona/Rutland
      @ Elkton  6:30pm:  Dells St. Mary’s vs. Colman-Egan
      8:00pm:  Estelline vs. Elkton-Lake Benton

Wrestling:  Clark/Willow Lake @ Sisseton Triangular
   Deuel, Aberdeen Roncalli @ Webster
   Sioux Valley Quadrangular 
   Flandreau, Marion-Freeman @ Beresford
   Sioux Falls O’Gorman, Dell Rapids @ Garretson
   McCook Central/Montrose, West Central, Sioux Falls Lincoln @ Tri-Valley

FRIDAY, JANUARY 18:
Boys’ Basketball: Aberdeen Central @ Watertown
   Rapid City Central @ Brandon Valley
   Sioux Falls Lincoln @ Huron
   Yankton @ Mitchell
   Sisseton @ Hamlin
   McCook Central/Montrose @ Flandreau
   FIS @ Lower Brule
   Tri-Valley @ Dakota Valley
   Castlewood @ Langford
   Dakota Valley Conference Tournament @ Elkton, Arlington

Girls’ Basketball: Watertown @ Aberdeen Central
   Rapid City Central @ Brandon Valley
   Groton @ Clark/Willow Lake
   Sisseton @ Hamlin
   Dell Rapids @ Sioux Valley
   McCook Central/Montrose @ Flandreau
   FIS @ Lower Brule
   Madison @ Sioux Falls Christian
   Tri-Valley @ Dakota Valley

Bowling:  Vermillion @ Brookings

Wrestling:  Huron @ Brookings
Kingsbury County Quadrangular

Hockey:  Brookings Blizzard @ Bismarck, 7:15pm
   Mitchell @ Boys’ Varsity, 6:00pm
   Sioux Falls @ Girls J-V, 6:15pm
   Duluth @ SDSU Men, 8:00pm
   Sioux Falls vs. Girls’ Varsity, 8:00pm

SDSU WBB…South Dakota State women’s basketball starts a key three-game stretch Thursday night – hosting Western Illinois.  Saturday, IUPUI is in town and next week, the Jackrabbits visit Omaha.
   Head coach Aaron Johnston says SDSU’s unbeaten in league play, but the wins are against teams currently at the bottom of the standings.  97633   :16   “in great shape”.
   Johnston says the next three opponents are all capable of hanging losses on SDSU.  97634   :17   “really different styles”.
   Johnston says wins in the next three games doesn’t turn the league race into a runaway.  97635   :24   “things get easier”.
   You’ll hear all three games on B93.7 FM, starting Thursday night at 6:30.

NCAA…Mark Emmert wants the NCAA to adopt a common-sense approach to the way it conducts business.
   On Thursday, in suburban Dallas, the NCAA president plans to outline his grand plan at the governing body's annual convention.
   In an interview with The Associated Press, Emmert says he supports a package of sweeping rule changes that will eliminate restrictions about how coaches communicate with recruits and how often they communicate with recruits outside the non-contact periods. The proposal also allows college athletes and recruits to accept more money to cover travel expenses for non-scholastic events and prize money from tournaments they compete in. If the package passes, the rules will take effect in August.
To Emmert, this is what the new leaner, stronger NCAA should look like.

GFP PARKS… Visits to South Dakota State Parks were back on track in 2012 after a 2011 burdened with widespread flooding.
   State parks saw record visitation and camping in 2012 after spring flooding in northeastern South Dakota and along the James River and summer-long flooding on the Missouri River closed several parks and damaged others in 2011.
   In 2012, state parks hosted over 7.9 million visitors statewide and 270,000 overnight camping units. Visitation increased by 11 percent and camping by over 13 percent compared to 2011's flood-impacted numbers. Park usage is back to the record numbers that were set in 2010.
   Fisher Grove State Park near Redfield is the only campground that remained closed last summer. Plans call for relocating that campground this spring, and it should be open next summer.

GFP LICENSES… The South Dakota Game Fish and Parks Commission is proposing two changes to Special Buck Deer Licenses for 2013.
   The proposed changes would allow resident hunters to hold either West River Special Buck or East River Special Buck tags for any one year, but not both.
   Special buck license allocations would also be based on 4 percent of the previous year’s allocation of resident deer licenses that included an “any deer” tag for both East River and West River seasons. For 2013, that would be a proposed 461 resident and 461 nonresident West River special buck licenses and 687 resident East River special buck licenses.