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 [...]

While the Montana Grizzlies gear up for their final spring football practice before spring break, here’s a story about how a young but capable group of receivers has looked so far. In my mind the Griz haven’t had so many unproven wide outs in maybe 25 years. This may be a reason Coach Mick Delaney [...]

Saturday’s scrimmage, coming as it did on the fourth practice of spring drills, ended with the Montana Grizzlies’ defense ahead of their offense. That’s normal. But there is a chance that this defense, with 10 starters back from a group that got better as the season went on – and I’m including the record-setting North [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

No, this isn’t about a blues song that goes, in part, “What’s the price? Thirty twice.” It’s not the version by Stevie Ray Vaughn, although he’s amazing enough to take me completely off task (so here’s something from Jimmy and Stevie Ray’s “Family Style” album). Where was I? Oh, yeah, this blog post links you [...]

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 [...]

Here’s the preview for Saturday’s Liberty-Griz football game, which kicks off in a little over 2 hours (as I write this). The feature for this week’s GameDay is Jacob Haas, a 6-foot-6 high school quarterback who was converted to tight end with the Montana Grizzlies. The Q&A is receiver Sean Haynes. A devastating knee injury ended [...]

Here’s my article on the 2001 Montana Grizzlies, who were inducted into the Grizzly Hall of Fame Friday night. It was a fun article to do, and Joe Glenn – whose South Dakota squad has the weekend off, so he’s in Missoula – was still amazed at how the Griz handled their playoff run. He [...]

Here’s my first “Who Next?” story of 2012 – these are among my favorite stories to write. I had former Griz football coach Joe Glenn on the phone on Tuesday, and a page and a half of quotes later, I’m trying to figure out how to get a half of them in the paper. Or [...]