The trip to Ronan on Saturday reminded me of any other trip I’ve made up 93 to watch a Montana Grizzlies’ football scrimmage. Cold. Windy. Little offense. I mentioned in my story notes that two other trips north netted some pretty dismal passing numbers. The exception was 2008 in Polson: Cole Bergquist, Andrew Selle, Jeff [...]

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 [...]

That wasn’t much of a fight the Idaho State Bengals put up Saturday, in a 70-24 loss to the Montana Grizzlies, but you know they are chasing history. I just learned that in 2008 the Bengals gave up a Big Sky-record 494 points. They’ve given up 432 already this season, and have games left against [...]

Idaho State’s Mike Kramer won’t coach Saturday against the Montana Grizzlies but he can still talk. He’ll send up a Bengal team heck-bent on throwing the football with Kevin Yost, but the veteran Big Sky Conference coach gushed just as much about the Griz, who are in danger of their first losing season since 1985. [...]

The Alerus Center is just starting to fill up for Saturday’s football game between the Montana Grizzlies and University of North Dakota. It’s a first for the Big Sky Conference, which just welcomed UND into the fold this season, but not for the two teams. This will be their 20th meeting, and there are more [...]

A little layover in Minneapolis gives me time to post a few stories on Saturday’s game between the Montana Grizzlies and another Big Sky Conference newcomer, the University of North Dakota. The Griz aren’t going into Grand Forks at full strength, since running back Dan Moore is still sidelined by a high-ankle sprain. It is [...]

First the Montana Grizzlies lose a second straight home game for the first time since Dornblaser Field was vacated in 1986, 30-20 to Southern Utah. Then my DVR goes on the Fritz. Maybe it’s better this way. I probably shouldn’t have another look at that shoulder to shoulder hit by Griz safety Bo Tully against [...]

A brief look at Northern Colorado’s football team shows that the Bears aren’t close to getting to the top of the Big Sky Conference, that their coach is 1-14 at the helm and that Seth Lobato has just two touchdown passes so far in 2012. But take a closer look at the UNC Bears and [...]

I searched the Arizona Daily Sun, the daily paper in Flagstaff, for stories about Saturday’s game between Montana and Northern Arizona. All I found was this story on the Lumberjacks, written in a familiar style. Oh well. The Jacks are dealing with a couple streaks, like Montana having won 14 straight against them and 19 [...]

This will be a short one — my DVR outsmarted me again, or something, while I was recording the Montana Grizzlies’ 34-14 win over Liberty Saturday. About the only play that made it was Peter Nguyen’s 90-yard punt return; upon further review he easily took four Flames off their cleats with that first cut, and with his final stop [...]