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 [...]

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 Montana Grizzlies’ 40-17 win at Northern Colorado Saturday, complete with bone-chilling winds and crazy plays, smacked of the trip I made to Greeley, Colo., in 2008. On that trip, Chase Reynolds had his first 100-yard game and the Griz won 41-20. OK, it was a good 25 degrees warmer in 2008, but you get [...]

I guess I didn’t think “crap” was suitable for a headline. After reviewing the Montana Grizzlies’ 32-26 loss at Eastern Washington I’m none to pleased to announce that, once again, I was transported back to 1990: I was on the sidelines when the Griz blew a 35-17 lead with around five minutes left in a 36-35 loss [...]

Mick Delaney almost saw two school records in his first game as the Montana Grizzlies’ head football coach. In their 35-24 win over South Dakota Saturday (check out the related video), the Griz gained a school-record 34 first downs while running 98 plays – one short of the 99 they ran against South Dakota State [...]

Here’s my story on the Grizzly tight ends that ran in Wednesday’s Missoulian. It includes, but is not limited to, Greg Hardy, so don’t be fooled by the online headline. Though he certainly deserves to lead things off. The fact that Hardy comes from an 8-man football program isn’t lost on a guy from a [...]

If you read my Q&A with Justin Green in last Sunday’s paper, well, let me tell you, you don’t know the half of it. I left about half the interview on the cutting-room floor. That includes an interesting bit about Green briefly getting signed by the Jets, and then released the next day for failing [...]

Here’s what I didn’t know about the Grizzlies’ 41-14 win over Central Arkansas on Saturday. Adam Archuleta’s receivers coach at Arizona State was Montana coach Robin Pflugrad. Not only that, Pflugrad recruited him. Not only that, but, “I got him to walk on,” Pflugrad said Tuesday. And upon further review, the announcing tandem for the [...]

Vuvuzela Alert! The Montana Grizzlies are approaching kickoff in Flagstaff, Ariz., and among the new amenities at the remodeled Walkup Skydome: Several dozen soccer horns set next to the improved seating. Great. On the field Montana will have to deal with a Northern Arizona team hungry for a win, in its homecoming game, against an opponent [...]

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 [...]