Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor The Big Sky Conference announced Monday that it will move its postseason basketball championship tournament from Reno, Nevada to Boise, Idaho after the 2017-18 season. After three years in the Reno Event Center, the Big Sky Conference reached another three-year agreement with CenturyLink Arena, located in […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor Following one of the biggest wins in recent program history, a group of fans met the Idaho State football team with orange juice and doughnuts as the team pulled into the Holt Arena parking lot around 7:00 a.m. Sunday morning. The team was fresh off a […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor Jenica Dodge was the first women’s runner to cross the finish line at the Montana State Running Company Invite on a snow-covered Bridger Creek Golf Course in Bozeman, Montana Saturday morning. Dodge ran the three-mile race in 17-minutes and 11.51 seconds, beating the next finisher, University […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor POCATELLO, Idaho – The Idaho State football team went into University of Nevada’s Mackay Stadium Saturday night, collected its $300,000 pay check for playing a Mountain West school and promptly left with a two-point victory. Idaho State (2-1) led by as many as 23 following an […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor Last week was a money game for the Idaho State football team and was essentially a full-speed scrimmage for Utah State, who paid Idaho State $280,000 for an easy win. From Idaho State’s perspective, these games are not about winning, they are about collecting a paycheck […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor A freshman-led men’s and women’s Idaho State cross-country team dusted off the cobwebs a few weeks ago in a meet at Utah Valley. Although top runners Jenica Dodge and Wyatt Didericksen sat out the first race of the season, Reagan Badger and Garrett Condelario, both freshmen, […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor LOGAN, Utah – The Idaho State football team was slaughtered by the fast-paced Utah State offense Thursday night at Maverick Stadium in Logan, Utah, as the Bengals fell to Utah State, 51-13, while surrendering 596 yards of total offense. Utah State (1-1) collected points on its […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor Over the next two weeks, the Idaho State football team will play two Mountain West schools, hauling in over $500,000. Idaho State will make $280,000 for playing in Logan Thursday night and will rail in another $300,000 for traveling to Nevada the following week. “I love […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor I was sitting in the press box just before kickoff of the Western Oregon game when Luke O’Roark of the Post Register, who was covering his first Idaho State football game, asked me where the student section was. I pointed to an area below where a […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor Life on the Idaho State volleyball team consists of everything imaginable, except for free time. Last weekend, the team left in the early hours of Thursday morning for a preseason tournament in Nashville. Once there, there was no time go to the Country Music Hall of […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor POCATELLO – The Idaho State football team survived its season-opener, beating Western Oregon, 37-6, after trailing 6-3 at halftime. Idaho State, (1-0) who finished the game by scoring 37 unanswered points, didn’t take the lead on its Division II foe until the 6:19 mark of the […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor The Big Picture: We’ll start with the basics. Idaho State is in the Big Sky Conference for all its athletics. Idaho State, Southern Utah, Northern Arizona, Montana, Montana State, Eastern Washington, Northern Colorado, Portland State, Sacramento State and Weber State are in the Big Sky for […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor Idaho State opened its 2017 season last weekend in a tournament at Milwaukee-Wisconsin. The Bengals lost to Virginia Tech and UMW by scores of 3-2 but beat South Dakota State 3-1 to begin a season that the team hopes will be better than the previous one […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor In 2014 the Idaho State women’s soccer team was one goal away from winning the Big Sky Conference title. The following year, the Bengals failed to win a conference game. This year the Bengals are 1-2 after losing their home opener Sunday to Boise State. “The […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor The $80,000 that members of the Football Alumni Team (FAT) told the Idaho State Journal earlier this month they would withhold from the school until President Author Vailas and Athletic Director Jeff Tingey were removed, was in the form of a fund-raising account that already belonged to the […]