GRAND FORKS — The Grand Forks Herald sports workers lined hockey, soccer, basketball, baseball, motor sports and the whole lot in between in 2025.
UND hockey’s coaching shakeup loomed particularly massive in that protection.
The following 10 stories have been the Herald’s most-read of the 12 months, based mostly on on-line readership information.
Schlossman’s 20 potential UND hockey head coach candidates
UND fired hockey head coach Brady Berry in March.
Berry had spent 10 years on the helm, profitable a nationwide championship and 5 Penrose Cups in that stretch.
Everyone had the identical query on their thoughts: who’s the alternative?
Luckily, Herald reporter Brad Elliott Schlossman put out a
beefy list of 20 potential candidates
for the vacant coaching place.
It grew to become the most-read Herald sports story of the 12 months.
The second title on the checklist, Dane Jackson, was named head coach six days after the article was revealed.
Naturally, the second-most-read story of the 12 months was the information that preceded the most-read.
The Herald broke the information of
UND had missed the NCAA event for the second time in three years.
Jackson served as this system’s interim head coach after Berry’s launch.
Berry had one 12 months left on his contract.
Russell Hons / UND athletics
Parents of Red Lake Falls women basketball participant file lawsuit
The Herald discovered in November that the mother and father of a Red Lake Falls women basketball participant
towards the Red Lake Falls School District.
The mother and father have been in search of a preliminary injunction, claiming the district’s rejection of a co-operative athletics partnership with close by Red Lake County Central was a Title IX violation.
The Red Lake Falls High School shouldn’t be sponsoring a varsity women basketball crew for the second 12 months in a row within the 2025-26 college 12 months resulting from low participation numbers.
Judge Jerry Blackwell denied the movement for preliminary injunction later that month.
The mother and father
after the courtroom’s rejection.
Brady Berry: ‘I’ll all the time bleed inexperienced’
The Herald revealed
three days after his launch was introduced.
In the letter, Berry mirrored on his journey to turning into UND hockey’s head coach, from his collegiate profession within the Nineteen Eighties to his time within the National Hockey League, and eventually, his foray into coaching.
Berry ended his letter with an emphatic message: “I will always bleed GREEN.”
Major League Hockey ceases operations earlier than it begins
Coverage of Max Chambers’
problematic history in the hockey world and his supposedly forthcoming 3-on-3 league
was among the many Herald’s most-read stories of 2024.
That protection carried into early 2025 when Chambers’ enterprise, Major League Hockey,
ceased operations before it ever started
.
Chambers spent the spring and summer time claiming to have massive sums of cash to begin the league.
After repeatedly pushing the beginning date again, Chambers introduced the league’s shuttering on its web site.
The article went on to chronicle some of Chambers’ further ventures within the sports world, together with a Can-Am Baseball League that additionally failed earlier than it even started.
Schlossman’s column on the UND hockey management change
Berry had a adorned 10-12 months profession behind the Hawks’ bench earlier than he was fired, profitable a nationwide championship in his first 12 months and posting a .642 profitable proportion all through his tenure.
Schlossman, who has lined faculty hockey since 2005, spelled out the
risks of UND’s decision in a column
revealed in the future after Berry’s launch.
“It is a bold move for athletic director Bill Chaves — and one that is nearly unprecedented in modern college hockey,” wrote Schlossman.
Arizona State fan picks up practically $7,000 bar tab within the Ralph’s membership lounge
It’s relatively unsurprising {that a} story about free beer cracked the highest 10 most-read stories of the 12 months.
During the Hawks’ dwelling recreation towards Arizona State on Nov. 14, the Ralph Engelstad Arena’s north membership lounge racked up an almost $7,000 bar tab.
A charitable ASU fan determined to foot the invoice.
The Herald
the next day.
Schlossman’s column on faculty hockey’s arms race
The panorama of collegiate sports has modified at a breakneck tempo prior to now decade.
The NCAA’s rule change permitting Canadian Hockey League gamers to retain collegiate eligibility for the primary time in many years despatched ripples across the sport when it was introduced.
Schlossman
published a column over the summer
describing faculty hockey’s “arms race” with the CHL, and the way NCAA applications have used their wealth of assets to dominate the recruiting world.
“When CHL players come on college visits, they are blown away by the setups. Few, if any, CHL players who take college visits are opting against the college route,” wrote Schlossman.
UND hockey’s Sacha Boisvert hits the portal
Perhaps no change in collegiate sports has made a higher influence lately than the switch portal.
When UND hockey’s
Sacha Boisvert hit the transfer portal
, it grew to become newsworthy properly past the higher Grand Forks space.
The NCHC Rookie of the Year and two further Hawks, sophomore ahead Jayden Perron and junior ahead Owen McLaughlin, entered the portal in March.
The Herald broke the information on March 31.
Russell Hons / UND Athletics
Devils Lake Speedway disqualifies driver resulting from submit-race conduct
Everyone loves a bit of drama on the racetrack.
Devils Lake Speedway
disqualified a driver over the summer due to his post-race conduct
.
The Speedway listed a number of causes on its Facebook web page, together with tough driving, utilizing profane language in Victory Lane, berating a race official in Victory Lane and a pit crew member utilizing profane language at members of the possession group.
Joe Armstrong of Crary, N.D., and his crew are on probation on the Devils Lake Speedway for the following calendar 12 months.
If they violate the probation, Armstrong will probably be suspended from the observe for a calendar 12 months, in keeping with the Facebook web page.