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 »

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 »

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 »

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Hampton, Georgia Southern and Idaho. What is this ? Ohio State’s 2007 nonconference football schedule ? Delaware, Maine and Montana. Must be the top of the NCAA Division I hockey poll, right ? OK, you’ve probably figured it ou… more »

GREAT FALLS - Michael Sweeney’s kick was perfect. His 40-yard field goal became the first “traditional” points of the day, only they barely helped his team break even. Before Tim Garcia’s snap landed in holder Tyler Lulay’s hands, the defense has… more »

Rob Ash has been working to improve the Montana State football tradition both on the field and in the classroom for about a year now, and by all accounts the Bobcat head coach hasn't cut any corners. Nor has he cut any cornerbacks, which all things c… more »

A Montana State University committee - created after former Bobcat athletes were arrested on murder and cocaine charges and NCAA sanctions were imposed for sub-par graduation rates - issued its recommendations Friday. Some of the One Team committee’s… more »

BOZEMAN - A committee that reviewed Montana State's athletics program in the wake of players' academic and legal problems released a report Friday with recommendations for ways the university can better help student-athletes succeed academically, social… more »

QB competition has been focus of Cats' spring drills. One year ago at this time, Rob Ash was the head coach of the Drake Bulldogs. When he was eventually hired to replace Mike Kramer at Montana State, the 2007 spring football season had come and g… more »

BOZEMAN (AP) - The owners of a Great Falls-based construction firm are donating $500,000 to Montana State University to help pay for upgrades to athletic facilities, school officials announced Thursday. “It's critical to support the Bobcat athletic p… more »

The timing for Montana State University’s spring football game in Great Falls couldn’t be better. Not only will the Bobcats escape Bozeman’s constant snowfall, their roster is beginning to look thin. The reason they are needed is due to leg injuries… more »

Perseverance, patience, hard work. We hear those three words so much that they begin to lose their meaning, but it's doubtful that'll ever be the case for Helena High tight end Steven Foster. Foster toiled in relative obscurity for the Bengals, st… more »

Montana State released its 2008 football schedule last week and it left more than one person scratching their head. The FCS (Football Championship Subdivision) Bobcats will play two teams from FBS (Football Bowl Subdivision) conferences, one Division… more »

Earl Hanson starred at Montana State and is very modest about his success. Earl Hanson, former Montana State linebacker, helped the Bobcats to two Big Sky Conference championships and three wins over their rival UM Grizzlies in the 1960s. And like mo… more »

Montana State University just can’t stay away from the Big 12 Conference. On Tuesday, the school announced that its football team will play at Big 12 opponent Kansas State on Sept. 6, one week before the Bobcats visit the University of Minnesota out… more »