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• College students always try to outdo the previous year's activities, he said, so the nine years off provide a route to a healthier rivalry void of disrespect and hate.
• "I think we've broken the cycle, which is good," Cecil said. "There's more of a respect for one another and I think we're treating each other better and more humanely."
• School officials, too, are hoping for a kinder, gentler rivalry moving forward.
• Last week, the universities and the South Dakota Corn Utilization Council unveiled a new South Dakota Showdown Series traveling trophy as part of an annual athletic and academic competition.
• The two schools' ROTC cadets are teaming up Friday and Saturday to run the game ball from USD's campus in Vermillion up to Coughlin-Alumni Stadium in Brookings, stopping at some of South Dakota's smaller towns along the way.
• Stiegelmeir said he hopes the new matchups are void of ugliness.
• "What I hope is the rivalry is first class and is done right," he said.
• USD leads the series 50-48-7. In the last meeting in 2003, the Jackrabbits beat the Coyotes 22-11 in the DakotaDome.
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Regional extension center opening in Watertown
• WATERTOWN, S.D. (AP) -- Officials will celebrate the opening of the new Watertown Regional Extension Center on Thursday.
• SDSU Extension, Codington County Commissioners and the Watertown Area Chamber of Commerce are hosting an open house from 10 a.m. to noon Thursday featuring tours of the new facility.
• Also scheduled is an award ceremony celebrating the $20,000 donation by the Watertown Area Chamber of Commerce Ag Committee toward a smart classroom at the center.
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Man pleads guilty to illegally re-entering US
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- A man who had been living in South Dakota has pleaded guilty to illegally re-entering the country.
• U.S. Attorney Brendan Johnson says 25-year-old Cristian Mendez-Barrientos acknowledged entering the country illegally after being deported during a hearing last week.
• Authorities discovered Mendez-Barrientos was in the country illegally in September after previously being deported to Guatemala in 2010. He had been residing in (Continued on page 21)
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