Monson: Tragedy, losing streaks, injuries and brutal cold have brought South Dakota State together

It’s easy to feel affinity for a team like the South Dakota State Jackrabbits — for all kinds of reasons. They aren’t exactly playing on Broadway. They’re playing in Brookings. They aren’t playing big-brand ball. They’re playing in the bushes. Brookings — if you don’t know it … and you don’t — is a small Mount Rushmore State town where agriculture is king, at least when the fertile ground isn’t frozen like granite, when the wintertime temperatures aren’t dropping to minus-40 and the wind isn’t ... <iframe src="http://www.sltrib.com/csp/mediapool/sites/sltrib/pages/garss.csp" height="1" width="1" > </frame>