Nevada graduate will be all about Bison on Saturday

FARGO — It s been six years since Richard Sorenson has been to a North Dakota State football game, but he wasn t going to miss this one. He ll be in a select company, if not the only one, who is a University of Nevada graduate and a huge Bison fan. It had the potential to be the ultimate conflict for the 6 p.m. Saturday kickoff at Gate City Bank Field when the Bison and Wolf Pack meet at the Fargodome. Well, not really. I ll probably be the only Nevada graduate cheering for the Bison, Sorenson said. He graduated in 1969 with a management degree when the school was better known as the University of Nevada, Reno, a name that Richard still uses and is technically still the proper name to distinguish it from UNLV and Las Vegas. The football team was nothing like the one that will play NDSU in a game that will be aired on CBS Sports Network. Stands were on one side of the field with nothing behind the visitor s bench. They weren t much for watching a game, Sorenson s