News flash, Griz fans. You didn’t have Johnny Manziel out there. In fact, Jordan Johnson was no Johnny Manziel — at least not after that Sac State loss in 2011, am I right? But in 2012 there was no Jordan Johnson, either, and so the Montana Grizzlies came at the world with Trent McKinney and Shay Smithwick-Hann [...]

The Montana Grizzlies have lost in their last two trips to Ogden, Utah, but today is a little bit of a switch: It is unseasonably warm down here. The forecast calls for 55 degrees at kickoff (1:30 p.m.) and there’s a 10 percent chance of rain. I gotta tell you, it seems to rain every [...]

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 [...]

This will be a short one — my DVR outsmarted me again, or something, while I was recording the Montana Grizzlies’ 34-14 win over Liberty Saturday. About the only play that made it was Peter Nguyen’s 90-yard punt return; upon further review he easily took four Flames off their cleats with that first cut, and with his final stop [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

It’s less than half an hour until kickoff for the Grizzlies’ quarterfinal game against Northern Iowa. By 9 p.m. we’ll know if Peter Nguyen, Caleb McSurdy and the rest of the Griz are again ready for prime time — and for the Panthers’ Tirrell Rennie. I’ve got a feeling that the Griz could be replaying [...]

As often happens, the feature I did for our GameDay section is already online at missoulian.com; we profiled junior running back Dan Moore this week ahead of the No. 5 Montana Grizzlies’ home playoff game with No. 15 Central Arkansas. Moore was notable for his return to the lineup for the 111th Brawl of the Wild: [...]

The 111th Brawl of the Wild had it all, including a couple Big Sky Conference players of the week and some major hits (not including the collision with one of UM’s band bus drivers). Too many things to get in the paper really. I shrugged off the newfangled helmets that the Bobcats and Griz wore [...]