On Wednesday Tennessee dismissed standout cornerback Janzen Jackson from its football team, but lest you think team turmoil is limited to the Southeastern Conference, there’s this: Griz tight end Kavario Middleton was charged with DUI in June. There are a couple things that strike you about the incident, which was originally reported by Bob Condotta [...]

I don’t know about you but the prospect of seeing Chase Reynolds and Marc Mariani returning kickoffs in the same NFL exhibition game hadn’t occured to me. When I caught up with Reynolds on Friday he said it could happen: he’s suiting up for the Rams Saturday, against Mariani and the Tennessee Titans. He joked [...]

If the Griz are going to be successful in the post-Chase Reynolds Era, they’d better go deep (read: healthy) at running back in 2011. So it was good to see Dan Moore apparently recovered from ACL surgery last November. The 230-pounder has long been a special teams standout and is widely regarded as the strongest [...]

It’s a little disconcerting when an already young secondary loses its established leader to illness, but this week senior cornerback Trumaine Johnson returned to practice and on Wednesday I wrote up this piece on the Stockton, Calif., native. A couple things I should mention: the 198-pounder (after a loss of 9 pounds due to strep) [...]

Here’s the column I wrote up on a local powerhouse slowpitch team, Boomer’s, winning it’s fourth straight State B title. The boys were impressive while winning a title minus the late Tanner Kahler — a talented player whose number, 22, every Boomer’s player wore on their jerseys. I buzzed back from a disappointing weekend for [...]

It is fun to have Mike Kramer back in the Big Sky Conference, as this column from Wednesday probably illustrates. Back in my days at the Billings Gazette, Monday was my Friday and I eventually used that day to build a Big Sky Conference notebook. The fact that Kramer, as part of his outreach duties [...]

Here’s the Associated Press season preview on the young but talented Tennessee Volunteers, who open their season against the Montana Grizzlies on Sept. 3 in Knoxville. The Vols are truly young: Quarterback Tyler Bray is a sophomore; the offensive line, including center James Stone, is peppered with sophmores; receivers Da’Rick Rogers and Justin Hunter are [...]

Here’s my story from the first day of fall camp for the Montana Grizzlies, one that I thought was encouraging for its intensity and fast play. Defensive coordinator Mike Breske was in full voice for a unit that was among the best in the Big Sky Conference a year ago, and may – through improved [...]

Here’s a little story on what is believed to be the first Griz football celebrity golf fundraiser, that Joe Glenn helped me write for Thursday’s Missoulian. Glenn, who in case you didn’t know is an optimistic sort, feels the Griz are in for a good season – and “laying in the weeds” more than they [...]

Here’s what I was able to cobble together on Chase Reynolds’ signing by the Seattle Seahawks. Situated as I am in the Twitterverse, it was kind of nice to come in after the dust had cleared and figure out the Drummond and Griz standout hadn’t quite signed yet, but was well on his way. Given [...]