John van Vliet Freelance Writer While you are working your brain during classes and homework, you must take some time to work your muscles and lungs at the Reed Gym Student Recreational Center! Reed Gym offers plenty of physical activities for you to undertake as a student at Idaho State. […]
John van Vliet FreelanceWriter Men’s and Women’s Cross Country The men’s and women’s cross country teams will be building off a 2012 season that finished the Bengals in the middle of conference. The women’s team finished fourth in the Big Sky Championships while the men’s team finished seventh. While this […]
Growing Pains The Idaho State football team conducted their second scrimmage of spring training on April 19. While watching their practices leading up to the scrimmage, I focused on watching the defense. I will note a few general thoughts about the defense before I break them down by position. We […]
Kasey Bacon is quickly making an impact on the women’s tennis team. She leads the team with seven singles wins, 4-3 in Big Sky Conference as a freshman. While recognizing there is still room for great improvement, she is happy to see where she is now and she possesses great […]
From Young Guns to Top Guns In last year’s first spring scrimmage, I pulled my hamstring. This year’s opening spring scrimmaged netted me a nasty paper cut. Transitioning from collegiate football player to collegiate newspaper sports writer is still a painful process. For the last week, I attended the early […]
Andrea Vicic is a junior this season, yet this will be her first year being able to compete in outdoor track. Though she has ran for three entire indoor seasons with the Bengals, nagging injuries have kept her away from running with her team in the sunshine of outdoor track. […]
The Idaho State men’s tennis team is off to one of its best starts in school history in large part to the strong play and leadership of seniors Nate Gross and Charles Norman. The team’s top doubles pair has thus far led the Bengals to an undefeated Big Sky Conference […]
The Idaho State men’s basketball team wrapped up its 2012-2013 campaign on March 9 with a thrilling 72-71 last-second win over Portland State. The senior night game in Holt Arena pitted the bottom two teams in the Big Sky Conference. Neither of them had a chance for the conference tournament. […]
Local Talent Highlights Recruiting Class The Idaho State Bengals football team announced its 2013 recruiting class on National Signing Day, Feb. 6. The Bengals signed 14 high school athletes along with four junior college transfers. Two signees and one walk-on will not have to travel far from home to play […]
John van Vliet Guest Writer As the Sports Editor the number one question that I get asked is, “Why do they make the football players go against these college powerhouses just to get embarrassed on national television?” I asked senior offensive lineman John van Vliet to write an article for […]