Fresno State and Nevada restarted the Reshuffle Party with Tuesday’s announcement they are leaving the WAC for the Mountain West Conference, and while Montana watches all factors of this movement with interest, the sticker shock stands out for me.
This Fresno Bee story has the WAC collecting a $5 million fine from each departing school, withing [...]

Here’s a photo the Missoulian received Monday from Afghanistan. Army specialist Kristopher Krause, a Hamilton native now a part of the U.S. Army’s 230th Vertical Engineer Company, sent it along with the following words:
“I live in Missoula and I have attached a photo that was taken by us earlier today (Aug. 15) on top of [...]

Here’s a short story from the Sioux Falls (S.D.) Argus-Leader about a quarterback and receiver named Matt Hermanson who has verbally committed to the University of Montana for football.
South Dakota isn’t a hotbed for Griz recruiting — I only found three Grizzlies who came from Mount Rushmore State, including linebacker Kent Clausen (Aberdeen, 1976-79) — [...]

You may have heard that Jeremiah Masoli found himself in a bit of trouble at Oregon recently, resulting in his getting kicked off the Ducks’ football team.
But now that he’s completed his undergrad studies at OU, he can be eligible to play for someone other than the Ducks – and one blogger says that someone [...]

There’s two-for-ones and there’s what Portland State has set up for its home football slate, which is being played at 7,600-seat Hillsboro Stadium this season.
According to a release from UM, Griz fans who want to see their team play PSU on Oct. 16 can buy a ticket only if they purchase a ticket to another [...]

That line jumped out of this story on Griz safety Shann Schillinger signing a four-year deal with the Atlanta Falcons. The story mentions that the Falcons also released Richmond QB Eric Ward, “in an unrelated move.”
Yet every time I read his name — or see him on the cover of the Division I Football Championship [...]

Here’s a link to a story from the Tennessean about Marc Mariani, the Griz receiver/return man turned Titans draft pick. In it Mariani fields questions about the fact that it was Griz teammate Brandon Fisher, son of Titans’ coach Jeff Fisher, who called and told he’d been taken in the seventh round.
Interesting story, though I [...]

The next NCAA Division I Football Championship game – on Jan. 7, 2011 – will be in Frisco, Texas, at Pizza Hut Park. Not everybody is happy about this, with Greater Chattanooga Sports and Event Committee president Scott Smith putting it succinctly:
“I am sick over this decision.”
I’m a bit surprised, too. There are, give or [...]

I got a chance to watch part of Saturday’s Texas vs. The Nation all-star football game, specifically the third quarter, and Shann Schillinger was in there running around.
The Baker product ended up with three assisted tackles for the Nation, in a 36-17 loss to Texas in the 4-year-old game. Not great numbers, but these game’s [...]

Here’s the latest from the Las Vegas Sun on new UNLV coach Bobby Hauck’s recruiting prowess. He was able to get Kjelby Oiland, a defensive tackle who had long been on his (and Montana’s) radar, to commit to the Rebels over the weekend.
It’s a nice pickup for Hauck, and not unexpected (the story also mentions [...]