Sven Alskog
Sports Editor
The beauty of sport is the unpredictability each day brings.
This past Friday and Saturday I witnessed three football games for the majority of the action, with a combined final score of 173-27 once the action was complete.
While these games are obviously not going to be the highlights of the sporting year, there was still plenty to talk about.
I saw a team score 58 points in the first half of a game on Friday, only to see a similar feat put up by UNLV on Saturday with 52 through 30 minutes.
Most games don’t see that many points combined between the teams once the final whistle is blown.
During my weekly broadcast on Friday I witnessed small-school football at its finest in Hazelton, a town with a population of 753 as of the 2010 census. There was a potato field right next to the field. It was awesome.
With the contest out of hand in the fourth quarter, the head coach started to get everybody involved, even giving a 285-pound offensive lineman an opportunity to catch a pass and pick up a carry on the ground.
How often do you see that?
Once that was over I came back to Holt Arena to see Couer d’Alene, a team most had written off after a season opening loss, come in on the road and knock off the number two team in the state in the Highland Rams.
Earlier this season during the ISU football game with Black Hills State, Bengal receiver Madison Mangum made a jumping one-handed grab in the end zone which caught national attention when it was featured as number two on the SportsCenter Top 10 that night. Pretty cool day to say you were at Holt Arena, right?
It makes you realize why a person gets involved with sports. Whether as a fan, athlete, coach, media member or anything else, it provides something different from the norm that is all of our daily lives.
At one point we all wanted to make it on TV for something. For many of us that was athletics.
As a broadcaster and a member of the media in other capacities, you see something different every time going to the field, court or other venue.
How great is that?
Consistently people ask why someone gets involved in whatever it is that they are doing.
Whenever that question is asked to me about working in sports, the answer is simple.
Because I love it.
