Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor Now, before you read this list you have to understand how I came up with it. There is a difference between me not liking a game and me not liking teams. I hate both BYU and Boise State, but I like watching the game between them. […]
Sports
All about sports at Idaho State University. We include stories about our traditional university sponsored sports like Football, Basketball, Soccer, Baseball and Volleyball as well as the independent club sports like Rugby, Archery and Judo.
Madison Shumway Staff Writer After starting 27 games as a true freshmen, Grace Kenyon was forced to the bench after an injury ended her sophmore season before it started. Kenyon tore her ACL, forcing her to sit out last season and use her one and only redshirt. Kenyon underwent surgery […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor Two years ago, the Idaho State football team went 8-4 and had a chance at the FCS playoffs. After two straight 2-9 seasons, that seems like an eternity ago as the Bengals have now only won four games in the last two seasons. ISU started 2016 […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor The Idaho State Bengals didn’t have anything but pride to play for Saturday afternoon as the team took on the Weber State Wildcats at Holt Arena. The Bengals had an opportunity to knock rival Weber State out of the FCS playoff picture with a win and […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor Milton “Dubby” Holt, an ISU legend and the man that ISU’s Holt Arena is named after, was 92 when he died in 2007. He left behind two national championships, 13 conference championships and one new athletic facility. Holt retired in 1979 after leading the Bengals to […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor They call it “The Inferno.” An eye-popping, bright red field on the outskirts of Cheney, Washington with jet-black end zones, white lettering and sprawled out black and white eagle at midfield. This field has played host to Eastern Washington football since 1967, but has only been […]
Jenna Crowe Staff Writer Melissa Coburn and Megan Poe are both freshmen from Texas and knew each other before they enrolled at Idaho State. Both finished their high school tennis careers ranked in the top 50 in the state of Texas and the pair attended the same high school, giving […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor I grew up in Fort Collins, Colorado, a town of about 150,000, located 50 miles north of Denver. There is a lot to do in Fort Collins, and in Colorado in general, especially when it comes to sports. Nobody expect for parents, students and maybe some […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor There are currently 13 football teams in the Big Sky Conference, and with the addition of the University of Idaho’s coming in 2018 the conference will be pushed to 14. The next closest conference in the FCS to the Big Sky in terms of numbers of […]
Tanner Sucher Staff Writer When Idaho State won its lone National Championship in 1981, two current NFL coaches, Marvin Lewis and Dirk Koetter, were on the staff and team. ISU is one of three institutions in the entire country that has two NFL coaches as alums, the other two are […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor Jenica Dodge was not expecting to be an All-Conference runner during her first season at Idaho State. The junior took advantage of hilly, wet and muddy course, placing 7th in the Big Sky Conference Championship race in Moscow, Idaho, running a 5K time of 17:56.1. She […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor The Idaho State University men’s basketball team opened its 2016 season with an 89-55 victory over Southern Virginia University Wednesday night at Reed Gym. Three Bengals logged double-figure points as Ethan Telfair and Geno Luzcando lead the way with 20 points apiece and Hayes Garrity chipped […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor Whatever the excuse may be, the Idaho State University football team is destined for another 2-9 season. Last year, the defense lost two of its best players in Mario Jenkins and Taison Manu prior to the season. This season, a banged up offensive line has led […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor At the beginning of last season, a winning record seemed to be an unrealistic expectation for the 2015 Idaho State men’s basketball team. With a team that has lost over 20 games in recent history, nobody was surprised to see the Bengals at the bottom of […]
Lucas Gebhart Sports Editor Idaho State trailed 17-13 at halftime but was outscored 31-7 in the second half as the Southern Utah Thunderbirds throttled the Bengals in-route to a 52-27 victory Saturday afternoon at Holt Arena, handing ISU its fourth consecutive loss. The Bengals have been outscored 177-75 the […]