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Josh Fuller just made it a lot tougher for his friends who root for BYU.
The Madison High School senior and reigning Idaho boys basketball Gatorade Player of the Year will suit up for the Utah Utes in 2010.
Fuller, 6-foot-7, 195 pounds, will attend Utah on a partial academic scholarship and red-shirt in 2010-11, then plans [...]

For 39 years, Jim Garchow was the voice of professional baseball and Skyline High School in Idaho Falls.
In addition to his broadcast duties at KUPI, Garchow served as the station’s general manager for 37 years and was a lifetime fan of country music, golf and bowling.
On Monday, the flags at Melaleuca Field flew at half-staff [...]

The games will go on in eastern Idaho, but they sure won’t sound the same.
Longtime radio broadcaster Jim Garchow, who has covered high school and professional sports in Idaho Falls since 1970, died at 4:45 a.m. Sunday at his home. He was 72.
Garchow, who had called minor league baseball with the same club longer than [...]

Athletics are back at Mackay High School.
The district’s school board passed its 2009-10 budget in June, and because a May supplemental levy failed, the budget didn’t include any extracurricular activities.
The school board set another levy date for Monday and it passed 335-258 after reducing the original two-year, $330,000 levy to a one-year, $250,000 levy. The [...]

Athletics at Mackay High School are getting a lifeline.
While the district’s school board passed a budget Wednesday that left out extracurricular activities, the board also set a date for another levy.
A $330,000, two-year levy failed 61-49 on May 19, leaving no money to fund extracurricular activities. The board originally thought it had to wait six [...]

Blackfoot’s Jordan Bjornberg was all set to walk on to Idaho State’s basketball team next year. But when Westminster College called Saturday night with a scholarship, Bjornberg jumped at it.
The 6-foot-5 forward committed Sunday to play for the NAIA school and will receive a scholarship to cover everything but housing and food. He has not [...]

Count Fremont Joint School District 215 among those cutting back on athletics due to budget constraints.
While Mackay’s athletic program is at risk of being cut and Idaho Falls School District 91, which includes Skyline and Idaho Falls high schools, is voting to double pay-to-play fees Tuesday, North and South Fremont high schools are cutting back [...]

Mackay High School will not field any sports teams this fall unless funding materializes from an outside source.
The Mackay school board decided Wednesday to cut all extra-curricular activities after a $330,000 bond failed May 19. The bond failed 12 votes shy of the simple majority needed to pass.
Athletic programs aren’t the only activities on the [...]

While most high school athletes are looking for a college to take them on, Skyline’s Robert Edwards is going a different route.
The 6-foot-5 center committed in April to play basketball for Phillips Exeter Academy, a prep school in New Hampshire, next year.
“I think it’s something where he can develop, get stronger, and play more of [...]

Last week Washington became the seventh state in the nation to add a shot clock for high school boys basketball.
So, what better time to ask “Why not one for Idaho?”
Some quick facts on Washington’s approval: State officials first surveyed coaches and found 60 percent were in favor of a shot clock. The coaches association narrowly [...]