Sven Alskog Sports Editor After a summer playing for team Mexico in both the World Cup and the Pan-American Games, Maria Sanchez returns to Idaho State for her sophomore campaign with lofty expectations for herself and the rest of the Bengals on the pitch. If early season success is an […]
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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.
Sven Alskog Sports Editor Some of the best collegiate rodeo athletes in the country will head to the Bannock County Fairgrounds from Sept. 17-19 beginning with the Regional Rodeo on Thursday and the Bengal Rodeo on Friday and Saturday hosted by the Idaho State University Rodeo team. For those who […]
Sven Alskog Sports Editor With a game already in the rearview mirror for the Idaho State football team, the Bengals head into Big Sky Conference play on Saturday hosting the Portland State Vikings. After a record-setting performance in a 55-0 drubbing of Black Hills State, Head Coach Mike Kramer will […]
Sven Alskog Sports Editor To say it was a good week for Bengal Volleyball would be a bit of an understatement after five straight victories in which the unit allowed just one set win for opponents. Straight-set wins over Cal State Northridge in Salt Lake, Utah Valley at home, as […]
Sven Alskog Sports Editor In what will be the only home meet of the season, the Idaho State men’s and women’s cross country teams hosted Southern Utah and Westminster last Friday at Centennial Course. On the women’s side, ISU took the meet led by a strong showing from senior Katie […]
Sven Alskog Sports Editor One year after going 15-1 in Big Sky Conference action to claim the regular season title, Bengal volleyball heads into the 2015 campaign with new head coach Rick Reynolds expecting much of the same success this time around. The new head man was previously at Western […]
Jerry Miller Bengal Adviser It’s customary when writing a story about someone that a writer or reporter talk to that person, but that won’t happen in this story about new Bengal quarterback Michael Sanders. Idaho State Head Coach Mike Kramer has put the quarterbacks off limits to the press, so […]
Sven Alskog Sports Editor It was a memorable ending to the 2014 season on the pitch for Bengal soccer, with the unit coming just one win away from taking the Big Sky Conference tournament title. After going through the regular season with a 5-4-1 mark in Big Sky play, Idaho […]
Kayla Nelson Staff Writer Months of hard work and dedication brought Benny the Bengal, the Bengal Dancers and the Idaho State University Cheerleaders to several victories at the United Spirit Association Competition. Benny the Bengal took second place at the United Spirit Association Competition, the Bengal Dancer’s hip-hop group took […]
Terraka Garner Staff Writer Idaho State University graduate, Justin Arias is known to work tirelessly for what he wants to achieve. His hard work and dedication led him to complete a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in physical education, athletic administration within a four-year time-span. Arias completed a little over […]
Denim Millward Sports Editor As the one-of-a-kind, oft-quoted Yogi Berra once said, it’s deja vu all over again. For the third time in as many years, the Idaho State Bengal softball team captured the Big Sky Conference regular season championship after steamrolling North Dakota in two five-inning games Friday, May […]
Denim Millward Sports Editor Whether you’re an active participant in sports, a board game aficionado, a video game enthusiast or even the most casual observer of any of these activities, you’ve certainly arrived at the same conclusion as everyone else. Losing sucks. Horribly. By nature, we as humans seem to […]
Denim Millward Sports Editor With just eight games remaining in the regular season, the Idaho State University softball team’s showdown with Sacramento State figured to be critical for both teams, and figured to go a long way in determining the fate of the division. Thanks to a perfect combination of […]
Shelbie Harris Staff Writer Chad Teichert, the coach responsible for leading the ISU Women’s Volleyball team to its first Big Sky title in over two decades, is leaving Idaho State University to finish his career with Star Valley High School in Afton, Wyoming. During seven seasons as head coach, Teichert […]
Shelbie Harris Staff Writer Considering that amateur competition is supposedly a bedrock principle of college athletics, especially in light of the widely accepted modern image of the collegiate athlete, the phrase student-athlete has become as much a corporate euphemism as it has passed away entirely. Although the multi-million dollar profit […]