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  • North Dakota announces 'Fighting Hawks' as new school nickname (replacing the Fighting Sioux)

    11/18/2015 8:49:13 PM PST · by Zakeet · 45 replies
    CBS Sports ^ | November 18, 2015 | Jerry Hinnen
    After three years of waiting, the University of North Dakota's sports programs have a nickname again. UND president Robert Kelley announced Wednesday that the former "Fighting Sioux" will now be known as the "Fighting Hawks," the nickname chosen by UND voters in an online voting runoff over runner-up "Roughriders." The "Fighting Sioux" moniker was controversially dropped at the NCAA's behest in 2012, sparking years of debate and discussion over what the university's athletics programs -- perhaps most notably, its powerhouse men's hockey program -- should be called instead.