No surprise here: Trumaine Johnson went in the NFL draft Friday night as planned, as the 65th pick overall and second pick of the third round to the St. Louis Rams. Johnson and Kalispell product Brock Osweiler (second round, Denver) gave, and continue to give, us scribes plenty to write about. Both have obvious Montana [...]

It was such a sweat getting the Corvallis Sapphire (night) meet into Saturday’s Missoulian, I forgot to use it for my state bests. My updated deep lists are below: Montana high school track and field leaders, plus class leaders, compiled from daily newspapers through April 24 by Fritz Neighbor of the Missoulian. Times for races [...]

The Missoulian doesn’t usually publish all-academic teams — there’s too many, I guess, and so many of them are too long to run — so I figured I’d put this here. A couple of Montana Grizzlies – one former, one future – who were honored on the Montana Chapter of the National Football Foundation 2012 [...]

Montana high school track and field leaders, plus class leaders, compiled from daily newspapers through April 17 by Fritz Neighbor of the Missoulian. Times for races of 400 meters or less are in hundredths, where known; times for longer races are rounded up to the nearest tenth. Some are hand-timed, and marks may be wind-aided [...]

I know people are probably expecting some Griz football posts – and there will be, soon – but here’s my first deep list of state track bests, first. (Late additions in bold) ***** Montana high school track and field leaders, plus class leaders, compiled from daily newspapers through April 10 by Fritz Neighbor of the [...]