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2014 season in review: Griz could have contended
“I want to really congratulate Montana and the season they had,” Eastern Washington coach Beau Baldwin said on Dec. 6, after his football team beat the Grizzlies for a fourth → Read More
FCS playoffs: Eagles happy for healthy Adams
Eastern Washington, 10-2 and poised for another playoff run, can count its blessings for a healthy Vernon Adams. → Read More
Red Rematch: Grizzlies happy to have another shot at No. 4 Eastern
While San Diego is certainly a less formidable opponent for Montana than Eastern Washington – Ron Burgundy vs. Burgundy Turf – the Griz don’t seem fazed about the job that → Read More
Four candidates in hunt to succeed Delaney
While University of Montana athletic director Kent Haslam refused to talk about potential candidates for the Grizzlies’ next football coach Monday, a solid group has emerged as possible successors to → Read More
Prep Extra: Glacier among champs who rose to expectations
The fall prep sports season officially closed a week ago, with the state championship football games on Friday night and Saturday afternoon. → Read More
Loyola Sacred Heart dismisses girls' basketball coach
With the start of the season just a couple weeks away, Loyola Sacred Heart on Tuesday fired girls’ basketball coach Carrie Heaphy. → Read More
UM grad Divish picks up a following
Ryan Divish didn’t grow up wanting to be a Twitter super star, it just turned out that way. → Read More
UW-Whitewater coach, ex-Griz Pease interested in UM football job
Another candidate has surfaced for head coach of the Montana Grizzlies, and he’s the biggest name in Division III since John Gagliardi. → Read More
Haslam will take time finding next Griz football coach
Kent Haslam, in his third year as the University of Montana’s athletic director, will soon make his biggest hire yet with the Grizzlies. But not too soon. He’s not in → Read More
Prep notebook: Hot Springs' Hoff keeps goal in sight
Given that the final score in Hot Springs’ victory over Sunburst on Nov. 1 was 80-27, about the last thing you’d expect from that 6-man football game was a punt. → Read More
Tested and improved: Florence volleyball aims for state title
FLORENCE - The best thing about last year’s Florence volleyball team wasn’t the adjustment Megan Byrne made moving from setter to outside hitter, or that Rylie Hawkins filled in so → Read More
Prep notebook: Bulldogs fish out Northwestern A football title
A league title a dozen years in the making started not with a junior quarterback who has 19 touchdown passes to his credit, or a receiver who leads the Northwestern A in TD catches. In fact, Chad Ross says the big move the Whitefish Bulldogs pulled off this season began with seniors Michael Voisin and Jack Streibich, who spoke up after a playoff loss last November. “They’re the ones that said,… → Read More
Banna, Diaz team up to run Missoula Big Sky past Great Falls
One thing that stands out about Missoula Big Sky’s football team is Michael Banna is a load: 222 pounds of straight-ahead, push-the-issue power. → Read More
Myndi Holbrook's determination after an aneurysm befits a Bulldog
The thing Myndi Holbrook remembers most starkly about Jan. 12, 2011 was the heart beat thumping in the back of her head during PE class, faint at first, and then → Read More
Sentinel sweeps Big Sky in crosstown volleyball
The Missoula Sentinel Spartans rode another freshman’s efforts to another Western AA volleyball win Tuesday, a straight-set victory over Missoula Big Sky at the Eagles’ gym. → Read More
Bauer has power on and off the court
Love for volleyball and affection for a little girl named Coralee have Faith Bauer making plans. → Read More
Griz host Vandals in key Big Sky soccer match
Fresh off a landmark road sweep of Sacramento State and Portland State, the Montana Grizzlies’ soccer team is sitting pretty in pink. → Read More
Prep notebook: A victory a baker’s dozen in the making
For the Bigfork boys’ soccer team, Tuesday’s 5-2 win over Whitefish wasn’t the first such victory in a number of years. It was the first ever. → Read More
FRITZ NEIGHBOR: Griz softball team basks in auspicious opening fall
The Montana women’s softball team isn’t printing playoff tickets after their 7-1 run through the fall season, but if they did they’d probably sell. → Read More
Marked man: Hamilton’s David Feldmann keeps finding the net
HAMILTON – The fact that David Feldmann can find the net with either foot from several feet away is not lost on anyone – least of all the soccer teams → Read More