Hill receives Rough Rider Award

Virgil Hill brought big-time professional boxing to North Dakota. Wherever he traveled during his Hall of Fame career, he brought North Dakota along with him. On Monday, the state honored the Olympic medalist and world champion one more time. Gov. Doug Burgum presented the North Dakota Rough Rider Award to Hill, fittingly, in a boxing ring in the main arena at the Bismarck Event Center, where Hill fought so many of his big bouts. “It means more to me than anything that I‘ve ever been awarded, any of my belts,”...