Category: Sports
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Proud Home Of the Rush
They are our Professional Home Town Team. What a wonderful addition to the The Monument facade.
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Sports Facility Management Fee Increase Passes Unanimously- But Council President Tamang Made the City Show their Math
Rapid City SD- The First Amendment to Sports Facilities Management’s contract didn’t slide through on consent the way its placement on the September 2 Legal & Finance agenda suggested it might. Council President Stephen Tamang pulled it for separate discussion before the vote — the committee’s motion covered items 1 through 14, item 10 excluded…
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The Heart of the Rush: Celebrating Nuggets Birthday and Nearly Two Decades on the Ice
RAPID CITY, SD — In a town where local sports franchises come and go, one towering, 6-foot-5 presence on the ice has remained a constant beacon of pure, unfiltered community spirit. August 22, marks the official birthday of Nugget, the amiable donkey mascot of the Rapid City Rush. While his major on-ice promotional birthday bash…
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Behind the Bench: How a Federal Fraud Investigation Traces to the Rapid City Rush
Rapid City’s ECHL team has been owned by the same North Carolina sports agency since 2019. What most fans watching from The Monument likely don’t know is that agency’s own ownership now runs, through several layers, straight up to a billionaire currently under federal investigation for alleged fraud. The Rush aren’t accused of anything. Nothing…
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The Sports Complex, Full Circle? What’s Coming to Wednesday’s Legal and Finance Committee and the History that Got it this Far
Rapid City SD- Next Wednesday, the Legal and Finance Committee will take up a naming rights agreement that would lock Sanford Health’s name onto the city’s new sports complex for the next 21 years. It’s a small procedural step on its face — an origination at Legal and Finance on August 12, ahead of a…
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With Sanford’s $10M Locked In For Rapid City’s Sports Complex, City Council Eyes Next Steps
RAPID CITY, S.D. — Rapid City officials and the Rapid City Sports Commission announced Thursday morning that Sanford Health will hold the naming rights for the city’s planned multipurpose sports complex. The multi-million-dollar corporate partnership is a significant milestone, but several major structural pieces are still slated to fall into place next week, when the…
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Twins From the Start: What the TIF Ledger Actually Shows About the Catalyst District
Rapid City SD – Mayor Jason Salamun’s office marked this week’s “five key agreements” announcement with a Facebook post declaring the Indoor Sports Complex “a win for our community and the next generation.” It’s a good press release. It’s also a good moment to check the underlying paperwork — because the city’s own Tax Increment…
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A Tricky Gift from Lien: The Sports Complex Enters the Legal and Finance Committee Agenda
Rapid City SD – The proposed Rapid City Indoor Sports Complex — officially named the “Rapid City Fieldhouse” in its facility management agreement — goes before the Legal and Finance Committee as a $76.2 million project built on a land donation that reads, on paper, less like a gift and more like a long-term lease…
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The Season That Wasn’t: A Critical Analysis of the 2025-2026 Rapid City Rush
Rapid City SD- DawnSherine Bernard is the founder and publisher of The Rapid City Sentinel. She covered the 2025-26 Rapid City Rush season directly and is named in the events described in Section 4 of this editorial. All documentation referenced herein is retained by the author. The Corporate Promises They came to Rapid City with…