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FCS Committee Members Announced
MISSOULA - University of Montana athletic director Jim O'Day has been appointed as a member of the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision Committee. His four-year membership on the committee begins September 1, 2008, and continues through Sep… more »
MSU football loses scholarships, practice time over grades
BOZEMAN - The Montana State football team has lost 1.5 scholarships and two hours of practice time per week because the players did not meet NCAA academic requirements, the NCAA announced Tuesday.
The Montana State football team's grades are improvin… more »
MSU improving; football docked 1.5 scholarships
Montana State received both good and bad news from the NCAA in its annual Academic Progress Rate (APR) Report issued Tuesday.
The good news: The report, covering the academic years of 2003-04 through 2006-07, showed that MSU student-athletes, as a gr… more »
Should Montana Move to the FBS?
For the tenth year in a row, the Montana Grizzlies football team exited spring practices with the title of “reigning Big Sky Champions.” In August, they’ll resume practices and begin preparing for a season that could hold their fifteenth consecutive pla… more »
UND FOOTBALL: Sioux dismiss Stroup
UND sophomore linebacker Bobby Stroup was dismissed from the Sioux on Monday by coach Chris Mussman.
No reasons were given for Stroup’s dismissal.
UND issued a two-sentence release saying only that Stroup had been dismissed and that he had been se… more »
Biermann, Hilliard in good shape after draft
The picks of Kroy Biermann in the fifth round and Lex Hilliard in the sixth round of last weekend's NFL Draft were big news around here.
Get beyond Grizzly Nation, though, and many returns were less happy. Blogs blasted, while news media in Atlanta a… more »
Baldwin sees more work ahead for Eagles
EWU wraps up spring drills
Even if spring football drills were extended into August, it probably wouldn't ease the anxiety most coaches feel once the drills come to an end.
It should come as no surprise that first-year Eastern Washington Universit… more »
FCS expansion could impact ’Cat-Griz football game
Montana State coach Rob Ash has been at the forefront of a decade-long lobbying effort by Division I Football Championship Subdivision coaches to get the NCAA to expand the playoffs.
So he was understandably delighted to learn that the NCAA Board of… more »
Weber State Lineman: "Back To The Bottom Of The Totem Pole" On NFL's Ravens
Another Widcat offensive lineman makes the NFL.
OGDEN — After being selected by the Baltimore Ravens in the fourth round of the NFL draft on Sunday, Dave Hale and his family and friends had a mission.
Find a Ravens hat for Dave’s father.
After… more »
Hornets get good look at QBs
Today's Spring Game provides a glimpse of the fall competition.
Spring football is always about promise and potential, not to mention a healthy dose of learning.
Mcleod Bethel-Thompson has plenty of the first two, the 6-foot-3, 225-pound quarterba… more »
FCS playoffs set to expand in 2010
The next time Montana plays Albany, it could be in the Division I Football Championship Subdivision playoffs, and it could come the week before Thanksgiving.
That news doesn't make UM athletic director Jim O'Day happy, but the die has been cast: Last… more »
Off and running at UND
Officially, Brian Faison’s first day on the job as UND’s new athletic director was Wednesday.
By late Friday afternoon, Faison had wrapped up his 12th meeting.
The 12 meetings in two days — in addition to a handful of informal sessions with other… more »
Determined to excel
Former Portland State linebacker Jordan Senn intends to make the most of his one shot at the NFL with the Colts
After meeting with the Indianapolis Colts two weeks ago for a physical, Portland State linebacker Jordan Senn was given a video of the und… more »
Undrafted still means opportunity for PSU Lineman
Brennan Carvalho had a feeling he would either hear his name called in the seventh, and final, round of the NFL Draft, or he would receive a call from an interested team shortly after the two-day college football shopping extravaganza concluded.
As… more »
PSU pals make an odd couple
A California country boy and a South Pacific native have joined Portland State’s football team — and bonded.
“We have way different backgrounds, and don’t have much in common, but our personalities really go together,” John Shackford says.
Coach J… more »
