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Hosted by John Gaskins · sports · EN-US · 300 episodes
Join John Gaskins for the hottest sports news from Sioux Falls and beyond.
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Episode #171
John Gaskins and Trent Singer sit in a local neighborhood pub and predict local football games of interest for Oct. 2-3, 2026. Please consider these picks "for entertainment purposes only!"
Episode #170
Jed Stugart was USF's football coach from 2010-16, taking over for Kalen DeBoer and posting a 69-17 overall record and 55-10 NSIC mark. He looks back on the first "Key to the City Game" in 2012 along with the hype and build-up surrounding it and the elation of winning 32-31, pleasing the USF alumni who were parts of four NAIA national titles but never had the chance to play Augie.
Episode #170
Jed Stuart was USF's football coach from 2010-16. In part 1, he talks about his country singing career before becoming a coach (and the famous singers and musicians he met and even opened for), taking over at USF for Kalen DeBoer, and making the NAIA to D2 transition.
Episode #170
Jed Stugart was USF's head coach from 2010-16, replacing Kalen DeBoer and ushering in the NAIA to Division II transition.
Episode #170
At first, the Key to the City game wasn't treated quite like a blood-thirsty, gotta-have-it rivalry by one of the two teams involved in the two block tangle. Then one day, the coach of that team showed up to practice and literally saw signs that suggested it truly was "Game On" and this one meant more than all the others. This was a few years into the modern-day Augie-USF showdown that started in 2012 with the Cougars' new Division II and NSIC membership. It's just one story Sioux Falls Live sports editor Matt Zimmer loves to tell about this 13-part saga that started with an electric bang off the foot of USF kicker Braden Wieking in overtime in 2012 that went through the uprights at Kirkeby Over Stadium and sent the visiting side full of purple into pandemonium. That is still Zim's favorite, but he writes about all of them in this Key to the City game article and he shared more during his weekly "Nobody's Listening Anyway" podcast with the Happy Hour host from Gateway Lounge in Sioux Falls. The two also break down the state of both teams and how they'll match up in KTC 14. The backyard brawl — well, we'll be South Dakota nice and call this a backyard battle — is always one of the Games of the Year on the state football slate, and Saturday's matchup appears to be a humdinger if only because both teams are 3-2 and desperate to keep any playoff hopes alive by winning. But Augie-USF may not be the game of the week in South Dakota on Saturday because FCS No. 2 South Dakota State visits No. 10 Illinois State. Which remark made unprompted by Jacks coach Dan Jackson on Monday's Happy Hour raised Zim's eyebrows? Is Josh Holst ready and capable of passing well enough should SDSU's nation-best running game not be enough to beat the Redbirds on its own? No. 13 USD comes home to host Indiana State on Dakota Days. Considering the momentum of both teams — the Yotes' fourth-quarter collapse at Youngstown State and the Sycamores scaring No. 5 UND down the stretch — this doesn't feel as sure-fire of a win as it did before the season, and especially a week ago, for the Coyotes. How alarming should the performance at Youngstown State be and how much of a national championship contender should USD still be considered? There's also five minutes of 3-0 Minnesota Vikings talk that sounds more like 0-3 Minnesota Vikings talk, plus a wrap on the J.J. McCarthy era in Minneapolis. Before all this, the hosts enjoy looking back on the "I Still Got It" game on Monday night from former Vikings quarterback Case Keenum, now 38 and slinging for the Chicago Bears. What are Zim and the Happy Hour hosts' middle-aged "I still got it" moments? But to lead off the show, the Gen X hosts pay tribute to their "Dead Guy of the Week" and a guilty pleasure must-see TV show from the early 90's by asking... "Hey, hey, hey, what is going on here?"
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