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• The Annual Dakota Invitation Karl E. Mundt Oral Interpretation Tournament is in its 31st year with more than 170 students and 40 judges from eastern South Dakota schools.
• Students compete in three morning rounds and break before the final rounds in the afternoon. Categories include poetry, oratory, humor, prose, drama, duet and reader's theater.
• Mundt was a high school speech and debate coach who came to the former Eastern State Normal School in 1928. He served as head of the speech department of what is now Dakota State.
• The invitational is sponsored by the DSU College of Arts and Science with a grant from the Karl E. Mundt Foundation.
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• GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) -- Jarrett Boykin wasn't sure what the big deal was.
• The Green Bay Packers' second-year wide receiver had caught eight passes for 103 yards and a touchdown to help his injury-depleted team to a home victory over Cleveland on Sunday.
• It never occurred to him that such a performance in his first NFL start -- with fellow wide receivers Randall Cobb and James Jones sidelined by injury -- might be considered newsworthy.
• It took wide receiver Jordy Nelson and a public-relations staffer to convince him to stick around for what would turn out to be an extended session at his locker with reporters.
• Asked Thursday about his attempted quick getaway, as he prepared to make his second straight start Sunday night against the Minnesota Vikings at the Metrodome, Boykin smiled.
• "I'm just used to taking off and just going. I didn't know I had to stay," said Boykin, who would try the same thing in college at Virginia Tech -- even though he left there as the school's all-time leader in receptions (184) and yards receiving (2,884).
• "I don't really like giving interviews. I don't really like to draw too much attention."
• It's too late for that, as Boykin's play has gotten the Vikings' attention.
• "Last week, not a whole lot of people knew about him. Now, they do," Packers coach Mike McCarthy said Thursday.
• "He has to overcome that challenge of people now have film on him, how are they going to play him and how are they going to game-plan (him)? That's all part of being successful in this league."

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