Wednesday, June 13, 2012

ND vote lets school scrap Fighting Sioux nickname

Buck Striebel holds up a University of North Dakota Fighting Sioux T-shirt while his wife, GaeLynn, sorts through other shirts on sale at a sporting goods store in Bismarck, N.D., Tuesday, June 12. Striebel, a graduate of North Dakota State University, said he would vote to keep the nickname of the rival school. North Dakota voters decided Tuesday to let the state's flagship university dump a controversial Fighting Sioux nickname that sparked threats of NCAA sanctions, ending ? at least temporarily ? a dispute simmering for decades that divided sports fans, alumni and even tribes.




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