A committee of South Dakota lawmakers voted 4-3 to endorse a bill Thursday in Pierre that would require public school districts to teach the Ten Commandments and display them in every classroom. The vote came after an hour of testimony that included opposition from public school groups.

Washington State athletic director Anne McCoy presents new head football coach Jimmy Rogers a jersey during a press conference on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025, at Gesa Field in Pullman, Wash. (Geoff Crimmins/For The Spokesman-Review)

Kristi Noem, South Dakota's firebrand Republican governor, faced questioning Friday at her confirmation hearing to be secretary of homeland security. Noem, the daughter of a farmer and a former representative from South Dakota, is being questioned before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

As the roster overhaul continues under new coach Jimmy Rogers, Washington State football picked up five new high school commits on Wednesday.

South Dakota won a share of its first Missouri Valley Football Conference championship and played in its first FCS semifinal in 2024.

CS Bakersfield at Cal St.-Fullerton, 10 p.m. Idaho St. at Sacramento St., 10 p.m. Long Beach St. at CS Northridge, 10 p.m. Loyola Marymount at Pacific, 10 p.m. San Diego at Portland, 10 p.m. UC Irvine at UC Riverside, 10 p.m. UC Santa Barbara at UC San Diego, 10 p.m. Weber St. at Portland St., 10 p.m.

They are linebacker Sullivan Schlimgen, athlete Erimus Wright, kicker/punter Adlai Lounsbury, and offensive linemen Trevor Bindel and Dylan Hildebrand. The last two are Rogers’ first prep recruits who were not previously committed to SDSU.

North Dakota hosts the South Dakota Coyotes after Mier Panoam scored 21 points in North Dakota's 76-72 win over the UMKC Kangaroos.

Kristi Noem, the firebrand South Dakota governor, is set to go before the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs for her confirmation hearing to be the Secretary of Homeland Security.

The narrative is shifting away from Alabama, Texas, Georgia, Florida, and Louisiana as the home of football champions, and to midwest states. There was a time when when people thought of great football, their minds immediately went to the south.

One of Trump’s picks is currently an evangelical pastor: Southern Baptist Scott Turner, an associate pastor at Prestonwood Baptist Church in Plano, Texas, was tapped to be Trump’s secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

Chelsea and Cole DeBoer of HGTV’s “Down Home Fab” could be following in “Fixer Upper’s” footsteps. Could Sioux Falls be the next Waco, Texas?