Take three steps back. Hop to the right. Spin once. Slide to the left. Shimmy from side to side. Now take off running. Congratulations. You’ve just done the Eddie Thompson. Practice a little bit, take the Thompson shuffle onto the dance floor and… more »

PARK CITY, Utah His Hawaiian shirt exuded calm. His deep-set eyes and chiseled cheeks had rarely looked more relaxed. The way Bobby Hauck carried and dressed himself at the Big Sky meetings this week in Park City, Utah, it wouldn't seem as if he was… more »

PARK CITY, Utah -- After 14 years on the job as Commissioner of the Big Sky Conference, Doug Fullerton seems anything but satisfied. He's always looking to make changes, improve his league and improve the entire NCAA Division it plays in. Last yea… more »

Any college football program talented enough to win or share its conference championship 10 straight years should be a good bet to make it 11 in a row, right? That's what the brain trust in the Big Sky Conference obviously believes. It was announced… more »

PARK CITY, Utah - It's a familiar name atop the coaches and media preseason polls for Big Sky Conference football, meaning the Montana Grizzlies are still wearing the bulls' eye. The Griz, who've won or shared the last 10 Big Sky titles, drew seven o… more »

POCATELLO - A minute's walk from Holt Arena, A.J. Storms prowled the secondary during Team Treasure Valley's practice on Wednesday. Both places - the stadium and the position - are ones Storms longs to occupy. Excelling within both is now his sole focus… more »

POCATELLO - Jeff Tingey opens the door to his Holt Arena office and there they are, his goals, staring him right in the face. They are spread across the room in the form of art work, propped up by easels. They are old sketches of buildings that don't ye… more »

POCATELLO - Employees need not walk as if there are egg shells underfoot, nor must they watch for the next rock to fall on their heads. Jeff Tingey used both metaphors to describe the new calm in the Idaho State athletic department, which he entered… more »

Home game with Montana State has time change, four road games to be televised. Pocatello, ID --- The Big Sky Conference has released the 2008 football television schedule, and Idaho State is featured on five television broadcasts, including four road… more »

The arenafootball2 league isn't on par with the NFL, but it is football. That's enough for George Yarno. Six months after playing his final game as Idaho State's center, Yarno signed a one-year contract with the Boise Burn of the af2 league on Thursd… more »

Football season is a long way away. With three full months before Idaho State's opener at Boise State, it's almost too far away to talk about. Maybe that's why it's been so quiet around here lately. Or maybe it's because for the first time in a fe… more »

Geoff Roberts, the hard-running, hard-working former Pocatello High standout will soon join the Idaho State football team. After spending his freshman year of college at Utah State as a redshirt fullback, he decided to transfer back to his hometown a… more »

The NCAA needs some sort of mechanism to keep the term student-athlete from becoming an oxymoron. No argument there. The annual Academic Progress Rate report is the sanctioning body's latest attempt at putting an emphasis on classroom work, and it… more »

POCATELLO - Logan Kinghorn had two months to mull over his future once basketball season ended, but his prospects still looked as fuzzy as ever. Should he pursue a professional basketball career overseas? Look for a job that requires him to suit up i… more »

John Zamberlin likes to stress that the NFL stands for ''Not For Long'' and that academics should always come first for a college football player. He and the other Idaho State coaches seem to be backing up that claim. The football program improved… more »