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Enough to keep you reading till dinner

By Dan Thompson

Good morning, everybody out there, wherever you may be. I’ve got a plethora of links for you all today, so if Big Sky football is your cup of tea (mine, today, is Russian tea), you’ll need a long lunch break to take in all these stories.

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A few words on the secondary, power rankings

By Dan Thompson

Good sunny midday to all of you.I have a few more links for you today, as well as a quick mention of the secondary’s play this fall.

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A few words from football

By Dan ThompsonI hope all of you are doing well tonight.I finally got a chance to get out to practice again on Tuesday, and I’ve a couple quick links to pass along.

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Today at practice …

By Tim Flagstad

I caught the last half hour or so of Idaho State soccer practice and figured I might as well pass along a few things.
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Idaho State soccer update

By Tim Flagstad

Bengals soccer coach Allison Gibson addressed a few things during her weekly Monday news conference.

A few of the highlights follow:

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Idaho State women’s basketball schedule

By Kelvin Ang

The Idaho State women’s basketball team released its schedule today. Here is the full slate of games, but please see the paper tomorrow for more, including players’ and coach Seton Sobolewski’s take on the schedule: Read the rest of this entry »

All-America, two-deep and thoughts

By Dan Thompson

I hope none of you are working on this fine Saturday night, but I am. I’ve also got some notes I haven’t yet passed along, so while we play the baseball waiting game in the office, I thought I’d share them.

First, wide receiver Eddie Thompson was named to The Sports Network preseason All-America second-team offense, one of 18 Big Sky players to earn a spot on one of the three national teams. Four Big Sky players landed on the first-team defense: MSU LB Bobby Daly, SSU LB Cyrus Mulitalo, NAU CB K.J. Gerard and UM SS Colt Anderson. You can see the full list here.

But on to the Idaho State two-deep, which was released to us media folk this weekend.

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Postgame: Idaho State 2, Utah State 1 (2OT)

By Tim Flagstad

The Idaho State soccer team broke through in a huge way Friday by picking up an overtime win, the team’s first since 2006 after losing two overtime matches a year ago and tying six.

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Offense turns tables on defense

By Dan ThompsonI hope you’re all having a great Thursday evening (and hopefully you’re still poring over your copy of the Idaho State Journal’s 2008 football preview — shameless plug, yes).

Idaho State’s football team held its final scrimmage of the fall this afternoon, and the offense compensated for some mediocre outings earlier this month in a very big way.

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Gearing up for scrimmage No. 3

By Dan Thompson

A sunny midday to you all.

I didn’t get a chance to post my pre-scrimmage comments last night, so consider this better late than never. I’ve also got a link to my story about the 12-game schedule and the anomaly that allowed for it.

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