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• The move will enable the Sioux Falls Sports Authority to make bids on hosting NCAA athletic events such as postseason tournaments, authority Executive Director Wes Hall said.
• "They are looking for cities that have this ordinance in place," he said.
• Councilman Kermit Staggers said he did not like that the city felt pressured to pass an ordinance, but others said the economic benefits of hosting an NCAA tournament made it worthwhile to pass the ban.
• "You've got to pay to play. We have to make this happen. We want to play," Councilwoman Michelle Erpenbach said.
• Staggers did not vote because he teaches at the University of Sioux Falls, which might be in the running to host NCAA events at its track and field facility, according to the Argus Leader.
• Other Sioux Falls venues that could host NCAA events include the $117 million, 13,000-seat Denny Sanford Premier Center, which is set to open in the fall of 2014, and the $19 million, 3,200-seat Sanford Pentagon basketball complex, which is opening this fall.
• Hall said the amended ordinance will comply with NCAA expectations and he intends to submit a bid by Sept. 16 to put Sioux Falls in the running to host tournaments during the next four years, including the first and second rounds of the women's Division I basketball tournament, the Division II men's and women's basketball Elite Eight, Division II wrestling national championships and Division II outdoor track and field national championships.
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AP News in Brief
Ordered by court, NSA reveals it collected thousands of US communications with no terror links
• WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration has given up more of its surveillance secrets, acknowledging that it was ordered to stop scooping up thousands of Internet communications from Americans with no connection to terrorism -- a practice it says was an unintended consequence when it gathered bundles of Internet traffic connected to terror suspects.
• One of the documents that intelligence officials released Wednesday came because a court ordered the National Security Agency to do so. But it's also part of the administration's response to the leaks by analyst-turned-fugitive Edward Snowden, who revealed that the NSA's spying programs went further and gathered millions (Continued on page 23)
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