In Friday’s Missoulian, ahead of Saturday’s 112th Cat-Griz game, we have point and counterpoint of players plucked from the other school’s backyard: Cody Kirk and Brock Coyle. Both are juniors. And while Bill Speltz’s feature on Kirk notes that the Frenchtown product could meet up with long-time buddy Jordan Tripp, a Montana Grizzly linebacker, there’s another guy that [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Here’s another good article from The Sports Network’s Craig Haley, listing 10 games he feels will shape the 2011 Football Championship Subdivision season. Notice he didn’t say “Top 10,” just “10 that will shape the season.” Craig’s crafty. On the list is the Sept. 24 game at Eastern Washington between the defending FCS champion Eagles [...]

Isn’t that (to the left) sweet? We just have the sweetest guys at the UM athletic department! I kid. Some Griz fans don’t appreciate that the University of Montana took out what looks to be a quarter-page ad in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle, wishing the Bobcats luck in the 2010 FCS playoffs. I’m OK with [...]

After 10 or so days, I am so over Montana State’s 21-16 victory over Montana in the 110th Brawl of the Wild. Two fumbles inside the 5-yard line. Another untimely interception. A fumble by MSU that went through the legs of a Griz defender, letting the Cats recover. Man. And there’s more: 1) Both third-quarter [...]

Peter Fields, like Jim O’Day before him, has denied talking turkey with the Western Athletic Conference in a story by the Bozeman Chronicle’s Will Holden. Fields, Montana State University’s athletic director, said his conversations with WAC commissioner Karl Benson haven’t included overtures or hints about joining the WAC. In his words: “Karl and I are [...]

Like the blood drive, like the new Field Turf, love the underwear run. Montana State students “warmed” themselves up for today’s 109th Brawl of the Wild with a run through campus in their underwear — you can see a video on the Bozeman Daily Chronicle Website. The unmentionables were mostly blue and gold, but there [...]