This came from the Big Sky Wednesday: The Big Sky Conference has suspended the referee from the Northern Arizona University-University of Montana football game, league Commissioner Doug Fullerton announced Wednesday. Jim Lenau has been suspended for one game for misapplication of a rule during the second quarter of Montana’s 24-21 victory over Northern Arizona on [...]

Love the fact the Yankees are not in the World Series, and was rooting for the Giants to beat the Phillies, too.* Now the bad news: Tim McCarver will be broadcasting alongside Joe Buck for each and every game. I’m not going to go on a rant here, but I gave up on McCarver a [...]

Here’s the game story, notebook and Bill Speltz’s column that covered just about every aspect of Montana’s 24-21 nail-biter over Northern Arizona Saturday. Just about, but not quite. Here are some examples: 1) After the strange safety call against Montana, Grizzly running back Dan Moore went down with what looked like a non-contact injury on [...]

Here’s the gamer I cranked out from Saturday’s wild 23-21 Grizzly win at Portland State. And here’s the notebook I finished up at 1 a.m. (2 a.m. Mountain) on Sunday. Even with 70 inches of copy there are still details that fall through the cracks.  One was a personal foul call on Tyler Hobbs that [...]

Here’s a follow-up story from Delaware’s 13-10 win over James Madison Saturday, in Harrisonburg, Va., during which Delaware QB Pat Devlin sustained a concussion on his team’s second offensive snap, and after which JMU coach Mickey Matthews cleared his players off the field rather than shake hands. Delaware coach K.C. Keeler wanted the CAA to [...]

The Denver Post referred to him as “Muff Mariani” in its Sunday edition, and the Tennessean, the Nashville paper that covers the Titans, wasn’t any easier on Marc Mariani after he couldn’t hang onto a pooched kickoff late in Tennessee’s 26-20 loss to the Broncos. Is it just me, or did nobody ask enough questions? [...]

Here’s my feature on Severin Campbell for Saturday’s GameDay section, as well as the straight advance of the Northern Colorado game seen in today’s Missoulian. But we couldn’t stop there: Here’s the story on Montana athletic director Jim O’Day’s controversial e-mail — a dispatch he no doubt didn’t mean to go public. I think he [...]