Watching the Griz run through drills Thursday, a friend sidled up, noted the heat and the contact and said we were probably due to see a fight. Sure enough, it happened. I suppose all football coaches have to ride that fine line: You want aggression between the lines, but you don’t the players wasting too [...]

A few things were left over from my visit to the Griz football offices, ahead of the first practice of fall drills for UM, that aren’t in my Tuesday Missoulian story: Montana Grizzlies’ coach Mick Delaney on Jordan Johnson: Johnson has been suspended from the football team until the outcome of whatever happens, his arraignment [...]

As of three days-plus after the Montana Grizzlies’ 31-28 loss at Sam Houston State, I’ve watched the replay a couple times and am, first and foremost, amazed at how the Griz picked themselves off the canvas. The Bearkats are excellent but to borrow a word from Caleb McSurdy: Dudes, that game was winnable. And those [...]

Wow, we left a lot of stuff on the cutting room floor Friday night. Night games like Montana’s 48-10 FCS playoff romp over Northern Iowa mean 5-6 less hours to distill the action – and there was plenty, including: a) The degree of difficulty on Sam Gratton’s two TD catches. The junior caught TDs covering [...]

If Saturday’s 32-7 win by the Montana Grizzlies over D-II Western Oregon wasn’t always pretty, at least it had plenty to write about. Not that I got to everything. For instance: a) Brody McKnight hit a record six field goals for the Griz, but he’ll be the first to tell you he needed help. Both [...]

Game time is near for the Big Sky Conference showdown between the No. 11 Montana Grizzlies and Weber State; as I look down on te field I see Trumaine Johnson and Gerald Kemp dressed out; Jon Opperud (appendectomy) is not. It promises to be a physical game — at least, if you count up all [...]

I’m not sure where to go with the news that Trumaine Johnson and Gerald Kemp were arrested for allegedly scuffling with police following the Montana Grizzlies’ 28-24 win at Northern Arizona. Well, there’s this: Both players have a lot to lose as Montana nears the end of a promising season – Johnson in particular, with [...]

There were impressive moments in the now No. 14-ranked Montana Grizzlies’ 33-0 win at Idaho State Saturday, including the play of Gerald Kemp. The junior played a few snaps at quarterback but was used more heavily as a slot receiver. Kemp’s first of eight receptions, for 13 yards, ended with him “trucking” an Idaho State [...]

Here’s the most recent look at Saturday’s game between No. 16 Montana and the Idaho State Bengals, who are playing in a better-lighted, nicer-carpeted, noisier Holt Arena these days. It’s the first of several possible tipping points for the Griz, who played their most complete game way back in week 2, in a 37-23 win [...]

This should be called Things I wish I’d recorded: Somehow, in all the homecoming hoopla, I forget to set my DVR for the Montana Grizzlies’ 55-28 win over Northern Colorado Saturday. Well, there’s this: At the 1:25 mark of Amanda Beterman’s Missoulian video of the game, you can see 368-pound UNC noseguard Marcus Felker going [...]