Note: This week’s Looking Back moments were inadvertently published last week. Here are the moments that should have been published last week.
A look back at some of the sports happenings during the week of Sept. 20-26, 2026:
Last year on Sept. 20, 2025: Two 48-year-old world champions wrestled each other in the feature match of WWE Wrestlepalooza to kick off its new ESPN rights deal. Webster native Brock Lesnar, who has not wrestled in two years, defeated John Cena. Lesnar is 5-2 against Cena, who says he is retiring at the end of this year.
10 years ago on Sept. 24, 2016: In the 131 st Battle for the Homestake Trophy in one of college football’s oldest rivalries, South Dakota Mines blasted Black Hills State 46-17. Rapid City native and Mines junior quarterback Jake Sullivan threw for 369 yards and two touchdowns and added another 91 yards rushing with three more TDs.
20 years ago on Sept. 23, 2006: Former Groton standout Andrew Wanner threw for 153 yards and a touchdown to lead NSU past Southwest Minnesota State 16-8.
30 years ago on Sept. 21, 1996: Nolan Mosher kicked a 17-yard field goal with five seconds left to lift Wisconsin-Stout past NSU 25-23.
40 years ago on Sept. 20, 1986: Harley Hanson won the boys’ division and Kathy Peterson of Milbank the girls’ title at the Milbank cross country meet.
50 years ago on Sept. 23, 1976: Four South Dakota Intercollegiate Conference football teams are nationally rated in the NAIA: Dakota State, Dakota Wesleyan, Huron College and South Dakota Tech.
