While some hold out hope that a big Montana Grizzly victory in Saturday’s Brawl of the Wild will mean an FCS playoff berth, this is likely the last game of UM’s season. The Sports Network’s Craig Haley notes there will be many 7-, 8- and even possibly a 10-win team that won’t make the 20-team [...]

In Friday’s Missoulian, ahead of Saturday’s 112th Cat-Griz game, we have point and counterpoint of players plucked from the other school’s backyard: Cody Kirk and Brock Coyle. Both are juniors. And while Bill Speltz’s feature on Kirk notes that the Frenchtown product could meet up with long-time buddy Jordan Tripp, a Montana Grizzly linebacker, there’s another guy that [...]

The Big Sky Conference confirmed Tuesday what my pal Greg Rachac of the Billings Gazette reported Monday night: That 18 Big Sky football games, including the Cat-Griz game between between Montana State and Montana, will be televised on Root Sports, a DirecTV sports property. It signals a pretty big change for the Big Sky, which [...]

The 111th Brawl of the Wild had it all, including a couple Big Sky Conference players of the week and some major hits (not including the collision with one of UM’s band bus drivers). Too many things to get in the paper really. I shrugged off the newfangled helmets that the Bobcats and Griz wore [...]

After 10 or so days, I am so over Montana State’s 21-16 victory over Montana in the 110th Brawl of the Wild. Two fumbles inside the 5-yard line. Another untimely interception. A fumble by MSU that went through the legs of a Griz defender, letting the Cats recover. Man. And there’s more: 1) Both third-quarter [...]

You’ve gotta love Cat-Griz — I call it Cat-Griz because I am 47 and when I was younger it didn’t matter which came first, Griz or Cats, and don’t get me started on Brawl of the Wild – but this Eastern Washington-Montana rivalry has some legs, doesn’t it? It’s safe to say everyone in the [...]

Like the blood drive, like the new Field Turf, love the underwear run. Montana State students “warmed” themselves up for today’s 109th Brawl of the Wild with a run through campus in their underwear — you can see a video on the Bozeman Daily Chronicle Website. The unmentionables were mostly blue and gold, but there [...]

I’m just about ready to rent a car and head over a couple mountain passes to Bozeman, to watch the Montana Grizzlies take on the MSU Bobcats in the 109th Brawl of the Wild.* I stayed in the office until 1 a.m. Friday writing up Saturday’s advance story along with some Griz tracks. I have [...]