There was no football at Mackay High School five months ago.
The school board lopped it, along with every other extracurricular program from volleyball to Future Farmers of America, out of the budget after a supplemental levy failed.
The town had no choice. Mackay has always been dependent on state education money because the federal government owns [...]
Dear Idaho High School Activities Association, It’s time we talked.
Listen. I understand why you draw up the state football brackets before the season. I really do. Why subject yourself to the controversy of seeding teams when you can just point to a bracket and say, “You can’t blame us. We drew a bracket beforehand and [...]
Wide receiver. Defensive back. Kick returner. Goal post climber.
Jackson Walker did a bit of everything in Idaho Falls’ 28-13 win Skyline in the Emotion Bowl, a win that might turn around Idaho Falls’ season.
If Walker ever tired, he never showed it. The summertime decathlete was the first player straddling the goalpost after the game, arms [...]
After covering games and talking to coaches for three weeks, the high school football season is (maybe) starting to make sense. Here’s five things I think I know about football in eastern Idaho.
1. Blackfoot is very, very good.
Blackfoot coach Stan Buck pulled his starters early in the second half in wins over Madison and [...]
Another football season kicks off tonight around eastern Idaho, and to get you prepared, we have our special preview section in today’s paper.
It’s located in Section E and includes a cover story on the rising popularity of the double- and single-wing offenses, an update on two schools that nearly lost football (Mackay and Leadore) and [...]
It’s sobering to realize you don’t have the power you think you have.
Despite a column at this time last year railing how Idaho splits its track into classifications instead of declaring a true champion, nothing has changed.
Track is a simple sport, beautifully simple. You line up, compete one-on-one, and whoever runs the fastest, or jumps [...]
For a quiet man, Steve Crofoot sure could talk a lot.
I remember the first time I drove north up Highway 28 to tiny Leadore, home of the smallest public school in the state and of an undermanned six-man football team. The Mustangs had won a game — their first in 21 years — and I [...]
Football coaches, as a species, are more conservative than any voting block you’ll find in backwater Appalachia. Their lives, and play calling, are dictated by a standard operating procedure that states one must not stray too far from protocol for risk of losing the game, the job and the well-being of the species.
Hillcrest coach Darin [...]
While I don’t agree with the 16-team brackets we have for the Idaho football playoffs in every classification except 5A and 1A — because 4A has only 22 teams, 3A has 25 teams and 2A has 23 teams — we’ve got some interesting matchups in this first round of “playoffs.”
Century at Hillcrest has two programs [...]
Milwaukee Brewers acting manager Dale Sveum has made himself a genius, whether or not he realizes why.
By starting ace CC Sabathia on three days rest for his last three starts of the regular season in the midst of a wild-card chase, Sveum bucked the past 30 years of ignorant baseball theory that believes you can’t [...]
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