EPISODE · May 11, 2026 · 1H 24M
FULL SHOW: Tim Huber, Augie baseball & softball dominance, Vikings Mount Rushmore, Timberwolves Talk after the Flying Elbow Game
from Happy Hour with John Gaskins · host John Gaskins
Adrian Peterson was named to the Minnesota Vikings Ring of Honor on Monday. He is the NFL's No. 5 all-time leading rusher and tops the Vikings' list. This begs the question — who joins A.P. on the Vikings' all-time Mount Rushmore? The Happy Hour host gives his after a word about two amazing athletic programs in the heart of Sioux Falls. Death. Taxes. Augustana baseball and softball teams winning NSIC Tournament titles and playing in the NCAA Div. II Tournament. It doesn't happen every year. It just seems like it. This year, both teams were relatively young, full of first-time starters (including starting pitchers), experienced growing pains early and in mid-season, and then hoisted trophies when it counted the most in May. On Saturday, Tim Huber's baseball squad took home its fifth Northern Sun conference tournament title and automatic NCAA Tournament berth since 2014. It is Huber's ninth trip to baseball's big dance in his 18 seasons and his fifth in the last six years. Eight years ago, the Vikings became the first "northern" school to win the D2 national championship. A year later, Gretta Melsted led Augie softball to the Holy Grail. Saturday, her squad reached the NCAA Tourney for the 14th time in her 20 years and won its sixth NSIC Tourney — including each of the last three and four of the last five. So, how does this keep happening? How do the Augie diamond trains keep rolling — or more aptly put, how do the Viking ships keep barging to dominance? The Happy Hour host explains why both programs remind him of SDSU women's hoops — especially the way this season panned out for all three. Timberwolves Talk: Wemby's elbow ejection helps tie Spurs series It was the flying elbow heard round the world. The NBA's face of the future Victor Wembanyama swung his wing and struck Minnesota Timberwolves forward Naz Reid in the throat, earning a "flagrant 2" foul and automatic ejection in the second quarter of Game 4 of the Western Conference semifinal. In the end, the absence of the 7'4 NBA MVP finalist for over two quarters may have cost the San Antonio Spurs the chance to go up 3-1 and close out the series in San Antonio in Tuesday's Game 5. But the Wolves made the clearer path to victory anything but a smooth journey in their 114-109 win at home. If anything, Wemby's ejection galvanized and catalyzed the Spurs more than the Wolves, who needed Anthony Edwards' fourth-quarter heroics to overcome an eight-point fourth-quarter deficit to secure the victory. Playing on two injured knees, Edwards scored 16 of his 36 points in the final two minutes. So, what does this all mean for the Wolves and the series going forward? Should Wolves fans be worried that Minnesota — like so many times in the regular season — played with its food and needed to flip the switch in crunch time in a game that appeared ripe for a blowout win once Wemby was dismissed? Or do the Spurs deserve credit for their spirited play and still-dangerous roster without Wemby? And has talented but expensive and erratic forward Julius Randle bumbled, stumbled, and loafed his way out of a spot on the Timberwolves roster after this season? Happy Hour's own local Sioux Falls panel of the Happy Hour host, University of Sioux Falls men's basketball coach Chris Johnson, and fellow die hard Jon Oppold (owner of Wolves watch bar, the Orion Pub) break it down.
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FULL SHOW: Tim Huber, Augie baseball & softball dominance, Vikings Mount Rushmore, Timberwolves Talk after the Flying Elbow Game
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