A long ways back

Jimmy Wilson is back, as announced by UM and in Tuesday’s edition of the Missoulian.
His story has ranged from impressive to tragic and downright dark, and now is on the verge of being amazing. Jailed for two years following the shooting death of his aunt’s boyfriend, Wilson was acquitted of murder a year ago and [...]

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Just kidding, Boise; come on in

Here’s Kurt Kragthorpe’s take on Boise State heading off to the Mountain West Conference, and he asks many of the same questions I have, including: What changed in the four days since the Mountain West tabled expansion (on Monday)?
It’s an interesting time in college football, but from my perspective it’s for all the wrong reasons. [...]

Heading to Hillsboro

The Montana Grizzlies’ football schedule has been out a while, but here’s a wrinkle you may not have noticed: They’ll play Portland State at a different venue from PGE Park: Hillsboro Stadium.
The 7,000-seat multi-purpose stadium has hosted the Vikings before, in 2000. They went 8-4 that year, including a 33-21 home loss to Montana. The [...]

An FCS bump for Chase

Craig Haley, the new FCS executive director for The Sports Network, wrote this glowing piece about Chase Reynolds of the Montana Grizzlies, and what he projects as the top 10 running backs in the Football Championship Subdivision.
The fact that Haley leads off his article with Reynolds is pretty high praise for the Drummond product [...]

Idle hands… do the NCAA’s work

So I’ve been wondering where Marc Mariani, the subject of my Wednesday column, ranked in the annals of FCS title games with his two 170-yard outings in 2008-09. The NCAA doesn’t do such a great job with its record books, so it seemed it was up to me to find out.
So I found out. Sort [...]

No, really – best ever.

As if to prove the axiom in my previous entry, the Website Deadspin.com compiled a list of college football coaches waxing superlative about their signing classes. Good stuff.
Here’s a follow-up story I wrote for Friday’s Missoulian about a couple day-after signees for the Robin Pflugrad’s Montana Grizzlies — though it should be noted that former [...]