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Argus Leader Wins South Dakota Newspaper Association Awards 2021
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The Argus Chief gained 29 awards on the South Dakota Newspaper Affiliation’s annual “Higher Newspapers” contest. The winners had been introduced Friday on the group’s conference in Mitchell.
Among the many highlights had been wins in Public Service reporting, Freedom of Info challenge, Greatest Use of Social Media and Digital Promoting. The Argus competed in opposition to all day by day newspapers in South Dakota and was judged by journalists from the Washington (State) Newspaper Publishers Affiliation.
We additionally positioned first within the day by day Sweepstakes award, primarily based on whole factors collected from particular person awards earned. It is the equal of a group successful an total observe meet: After medals in every particular person self-discipline are awarded, the group (or on this case, information operation) with essentially the most factors wins.
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I am so happy with the work we do, and the group that does it. On to the awards.
Right here is the complete checklist of SDNA awards the Argus Chief gained:
Sweepstakes:
First place – Employees
Freedom of Info challenge:
First place – Employees
Sequence:Youngster pornography, secret courtroom proceedings and the ‘implicated particular person’
The Argus Chief spent nearly all of 2021 (and greater than a yr, whole) underneath a gag order, attending secret, unpublicized courtroom proceedings and ultimately on the South Dakota Supreme Court docket combating for entry to public information within the federal youngster pornography investigation of our state’s most distinguished businessman and philanthropist, Forbes’ international billionaire checklist’s T. Denny Sanford.
A four-state investigation yielded a number of search warrants, which the Argus Chief tried to acquire, however had been sealed.
After successful entry to this public data on the state Supreme Court docket, we’re nonetheless combating. We’re in courtroom for the underlying police affidavits that sparked the investigations, in addition to to search out out if this investigation is even nonetheless ongoing, and what this case means for a area and metropolis who sees this man’s namesake in every single place, from our dominant well being care system, Sanford Well being to Sioux Falls’ fundamental live performance and athletics venue, the T. Denny Sanford Occasions Heart.
The Argus Chief repeatedly, yearly, fights these sorts of battles, although this was unprecedented.
Public Service award:
First place – Employees
Story: Secret votes on Legal professional Basic Impeachment
When lawmakers maintain a particular legislative session within the state of South Dakota, the votes that set off it are allowed to be saved secret.
Or at the very least they had been till the Argus Chief acquired concerned.
Greater than two-thirds of members of each the Home and Senate final fall submitted petitions to chamber management calling for a particular session to conduct hearings associated to the impeachment of Legal professional Basic Jason Ravnsborg, who killed a pedestrian together with his automotive in September 2020. However when requested to make copies of the signed petitions public, each Home Speaker Spencer Gosch and the Legislative Analysis Council denied the request.
Gosch stated particular person lawmakers are free to share with their constituents, the press and basic public in the event that they signed a petition in assist of a particular session, however nothing in legislation, he argued, requires a complete checklist of petition signers or the petitions themselves be made publicly accessible.
That clarification ignored the truth that the petitions are an act of the state legislature prompting Legislative motion. And it could require any get together sooner or later to contact 105 lawmakers individually to search out out who supported a particular session and who didn’t.
That prompted litigation to drive the petitions to be turned over. However earlier than the matter was resolved in courtroom, the Legislature’s govt board put in coverage that particular session petitions – whether or not associated to the impeachment of Ravnsborg or every other topic – are a part of public report.
So whether or not as we speak, tomorrow or 20 years from now, and no matter lawmakers’ potential (if deceased) or willingness to share publicly how they voted on holding particular classes, there can be a public report due to the Argus Chief and the great sense of legislative leaders who bucked their very own Home Speaker. We’re additionally nonetheless pursuing getting precise statute modified as well as.
Excellent Younger Journalist:
Erin Woodiel.
From the nomination letter:
“As with every ‘of the yr’ dialogue, Erin’s nomination comes with way over ability at her craft. She is considerate, keen and type. The type of colleague and buddy that energizes a group and makes the troublesome work of being a journalist just a bit bit simpler figuring out she’s in your aspect.
At this level in my tenure on the Argus Chief, I’ve labored with dozens of younger journalists (and loads of them photographers), and it’s a uncommon few that would maintain a candle to Erin Woodiel.” – Cory Myers, information director.
Spot Information Photograph:
First place – Erin Woodiel
Authorities Reporting:
First place – Morgan Matzen
Story: ‘Left to rumors and nothing’: South Dakota’s privateness legal guidelines preserve households within the lurch about instructor self-discipline
Third place – Makenzie Molnar
Story: South Dakota lacks client safety legal guidelines for used automotive gross sales. Here is what to know before you purchase.
Information Sequence:
First place – Makenzie Molnar and Alfonzo Galvan
Story: Smithfield spent thousands and thousands on COVID-19 precautions. A yr later, staff say it isn’t sufficient.
Second place – Morgan Matzen
Story: South Dakota DOE eliminated Indigenous matters from social research requirements earlier than remaining draft
Sports activities Columns:
First place – Michael McCleary for a set of columns, together with: De Smet’s Kalen Garry scores 87 factors, hits game-winner and creates nationwide headlines in whirlwind week
Second place – Matt Zimmer for columns together with this ode to John Madden after his passing.
Sports activities Photograph:
First place – Erin Woodiel for O’Gorman observe exhaustion
Sports activities Reporting:
First place – Michael McCleary for the way Tea Space grew to become a soccer powerhouse
Sports activities Sequence:
First place – Brian Haenchen for ‘Season of Sacrifices’: The unseen toll of COVID-19 for highschool athletes on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
Second place – Matt Zimmer for beginner baseball challenge.
Third place – Alfonzo Galvan for his Little League World Sequence protection.
Greatest Use of Social Media:
First place – Employees
Greatest Web site:
First place – Employees
Greatest Particular Situation:
First place – Employees
Greatest Typography/Design:
First place – Employees
Digital Promoting:
First place – Employees
Basic Excellence:
Second place – Employees
Characteristic Profile Story:
Second place – Erin Woodiel – ‘We’re your neighbors’: How does it really feel to be transgender or nonbinary in South Dakota?
Native Column:
Second place – Views writing group, an ongoing sequence of columns from South Dakota’s African American, Latinx, Indigenous, South Asian, immigrant and refugee communities.
Third place – Jonathan Ellis for a sequence of columns, together with: Kristi Noem’s aggression at ousting Ravnsborg might have backfired
Spot Information Story:
Third place – Annie Todd and Alfonzo Galvan for Police shoot and kill man after home violence incident.
Characteristic Sequence:
Third place – Employees for Meals Style Assessments
Burritos: Greatest categorical burrito in Sioux Falls? It isn’t Chipotle. And it isn’t Giliberto’s.
Pizza: What’s the perfect pizza in Sioux Falls? You may need to go off the primary roads for this neighborhood slice
Chislic: The very best chislic in Sioux Falls? It is from a bar that apparently not sufficient of you recognize about
Characteristic (Non-profile):
Third place – Makenzie Molnar for ‘It type of breaks my coronary heart’: As Sioux Falls swallows up city farmsteads, these are the final holdouts
Photograph Sequence:
Third place – Erin Woodiel for Tribes welcome stays of Rosebud kids again to South Dakota.
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Videos: Gundy, Players Recap Win against South Dakota State
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STILLWATER — The Oklahoma State football team beat South Dakota State 44-20 on Saturday to start the season 1-0. After the game, Mike Gundy, Ollie Gordon, Alan Bowman, De’Zhaun Stribling, Collin Oliver, Korie Black and Trey Rucker met with reporters to recap the game.
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South Dakota State vs. No. 17 Oklahoma State live stream (8/31/24): Watch college football, Week 1 online
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The South Dakota State Jackrabbits face the No. 17 Oklahoma State Cowboys on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024 (8/31/24) at Boone Pickens Stadium in Stillwater, Oklahoma.
Fans can watch the game with a subscription to ESPN+.
Here’s what you need to know:
What: NCAA Football, Week 1
Who: South Dakota State vs. Oklahoma State
When: Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024 (8/31/24)
Where: Boone Pickens Stadium
Time: 2 p.m. ET
TV: N/A
Channel finder: Verizon Fios, AT&T U-verse, Comcast Xfinity, Spectrum/Charter, Optimum/Altice,Cox,DIRECTV, Dish, Hulu, fuboTV, Sling.
Live stream: ESPN+
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Here’s a college football story from the Associated Press:
Y’all ain’t played nobody!
It might as well be college football’s slogan. Debates about strength of schedule are part of the fabric of the sport, like marching bands, cheerleaders and tailgating.
With the size of the College Football Playoff tripling in size from four teams to 12 this season — including seven at-large bids — expect the arguments over the relative difficulty of teams’ schedules to increase exponentially.
The posturing and politicking has already begun.
“This is the NFL of college football in my mind,” Nebraska coach Matt Rhule said during Big Ten media days. At Southeastern Conference media days, the NFL was also invoked when the topic steered to schedules.
“As coaches we want to play the best. People forget that when you’ve spent time in the NFL, every week was like that,” Georgia coach Kirby Smart said. “So when Texas and Oklahoma came into the conference, every schedule was going to get harder.”
The debates aren’t just about which conferences are the best. With super-sized conferences of 16-18 teams, the differences in strength of schedule within leagues can be significant.
The CFP selection committee uses a strength-of-schedule rating provided by SportSource Analytics that includes components such as wins and losses, scoring differential and game location.
Balancing who you played with how you played will be harder than ever.
“There’s a weight on the committee that’s new. I want to see how the committee processes that,” SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey said during spring meetings. “And my encouragement is that this, ‘Well, we have an undefeated team so they’re in’ is not the standard. It never was the standard. Obviously, that stirred up controversy last year.”
Toughest schedules in the Power Four
There are dozens of data-based rating systems to measure the relative strength of college football teams, and all have some type of schedule-rating component.
The AP took three systems — ESPN’s SP+, FEI and KFord Ratings — and averaged their strength of schedule rankings for all 134 Bowl Subdivision teams to determine where each Power Four team’s schedule ranks nationally (all games, not just conference games, are factored in).
Using those projections, SEC teams on average will be facing the toughest schedules this season.
The average strength-of-schedule ranking among the 16 SEC teams is 11.2, from Florida (a unanimous No. 1 among all three systems) to Missouri at 36.7.
Half the teams in the SEC have schedules with an average national ranking of 10 or better, including No. 1 Georgia at 3.7. No. 11 Missouri is the only SEC team with an average schedule-strength ranking below 25.3.
Rating the rest
The Big Ten, now including Southern California, UCLA, Oregon and Washington, is next with an average strength-of-schedule ranking of 26.9 among its 18 teams.
Purdue’s 7.7 average ranking is the highest followed by No. 23 USC at 9. Big Ten favorite No. 2 Ohio State’s average is 34. No. 3 Oregon’s is 26.7.
The ACC and Big 12 are about the same. The 17-team ACC has an average strength of schedule ranking of 49.9. The 16-team Big 12′s average ranking is 47.3.
Assessing strength of schedule
Straight up rankings can be deceiving. How to quantify the difference between facing the sixth-ranked schedule and 26th?
Brian Fremeau, the creator of FEI, does it three ways, asking three questions: How many games would an elite team lose facing a particular schedule? How many would a good team lose? How many would an average team lose?
AP used FEI’s strength of schedule ratings based on good teams in its composite rankings, since good teams are going to be the ones in the CFP race.
Based on FEI projections, the difference between playing Georgia’s schedule (rated 3.4 among the hardest in the nation) and Ohio State (34) is about one more loss for a good team against the Bulldogs’ slate. The difference between Alabama’s schedule and Big 12 favorite Utah’s is about two losses for a good team against the Tide’s.
If these schedule strength projections held — they will change throughout the season — it would then be reasonable to compare an 11-1 Utah to a 9-3 Alabama.
Reasonable to compare doesn’t necessarily mean the one with the tougher schedule should automatically be ranked higher.
“I don’t judge a team on its schedule. I judge a team on how it performs against a schedule, or my system does. And that is a little more of a nuanced take then, ‘Well, we played a tougher set of opponents than you did, therefore, we’re better,’” Fremeau said. “There’s a bit of a balancing act between the two.”
Intraconference debates
The SEC and Big Ten are both bigger and division-less for the first time. That necessitated new tiebreaker procedures to determine which teams qualify for conference title games featuring the top two teams in the standings.
Within the guidelines is an acknowledgment that the rigor of conference schedules will vary when teams are playing barely half the league. After head-to-head and record vs. common opponents are used to break ties, both leagues go to results that favor the team that fared better against the better conference opponents they play.
The ACC, a year ahead of the the SEC and Big Ten in abandoning divisions, has a similar nod within its tiebreakers to strength of schedule.
ACC Associate Commissioner Michael Strickland said the conference used 10 years of data that measures the success of its football teams to help create a new schedule rotation that would be competitively balanced. But the ACC also to had weigh travel now that Stanford, California and SMU are members, as well as protecting some traditional annual rivalries.
The ACC’s fourth two-team tiebreaker is combined winning percentage of conference opponents.
“Our head football coaches suggested that we insert that during our review process,” Strickland said.
The CFP choices
The CFP field announced Dec. 8 will be comprised of the five highest-ranked conference champions, regardless of league, and seven at-large selections. There is no limit to the number of at-large bids a conference can receive.
The most interesting comparisons for the CFP selection committee might end up being between the many conference rivals that do not play each other in the regular season.
What to do with a 10-2 Missouri and a 9-3 Alabama (composite strength-of-schedule ranking, 9.3)? Or Iowa (37) at 10-2 and Michigan (16) at 9-3? Over in the ACC, what would happen while assessing a 10-2 Virginia Tech (68) and a 9-3 Florida State (30.3)?
“Especially when we’re picking (seven) teams now, we’re looking at the loss column with a bit more scrutiny,” Fremeau said. “They’re going to be debating teams like that with a one or possibly two-game difference in record, but a comparable difference in expected schedule rating and they’re going to have that debate about which one they value more.”
(The Associated Press contributed to this report)
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