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. [...]

This item on Tavoy Moore’s dismissal by ISU coach Mike Kramer ran in the Idaho State Journal although it has an Associated Press byline. The senior running back says he was dismissed for complaining about Kramer publicly criticizing his players — namely Moore, who did get a pretty good public flogging in the ISJ the [...]

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 [...]

It is fun to have Mike Kramer back in the Big Sky Conference, as this column from Wednesday probably illustrates. Back in my days at the Billings Gazette, Monday was my Friday and I eventually used that day to build a Big Sky Conference notebook. The fact that Kramer, as part of his outreach duties [...]

… and spinners always make me laugh. So did this free throw by a member of Idaho State’s men’s basketball team. I wonder if Kamil Gawrzydek can replicate that against the Griz at Dahlberg Arena on Feb. 16… -Fritz Neighbor

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 [...]