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Updated 1 year, 3 months ago

Column: Greenhorns make history on BC ice

The Greenhorns made history on Jan. 21 at Lake Windermere, British Columbia, and it’s at least partly because a gr…

Updated 1 day, 22 hours ago
Storybook finish for the Braves

Dan Hodge has been boys track coach at Flathead for eight of the Braves’ state championships, and Saturday was maybe the first where he began the cleanup portion of the meet before it was actually over.

Updated 2 weeks, 1 day ago
Troy softball: Driven to new heights

The coach drives the bus, the third baseman throws lefthanded and the first baseman has only been hanging around the diamond for three seasons.

Updated 3 weeks, 1 day ago
A breakaway roper and her horse

When her horse, Monty, reared back in the breakaway roping box and pinned Anna Tretter to the back wall, the needle swung to “big mistake.”

Updated 4 weeks, 1 day ago
Things continue looking up for Phelps

Jack Phelps’ time through the 200 meters at the Iceberg Invitational on April 17 was 22.57 seconds, which tells you that the Columbia Falls sprinter can fly.

Updated 1 month, 1 week ago
I am here not to bury Donovan

On Nov. 25, 1985 a youngish reporter, in his Monday duties writing about Griz football for the Montana Kaimin student newspaper, traipsed into Larry Donovan’s office.

Updated 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Is there an O-lineman in the house

Dillon Botner felt he had a good reason to step away from football after a senior season in which he made three starts on the offensive line: Med school.

Updated 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Columan: 'Only Game in Town' turns 20

This coming Sunday at Bozeman’s Historic Ellen Theatre, at 1:30 p.m. in its upstairs ballroom, Wally Kurth and Montana PBS will present a viewing of Class C: The Only Game in Town.

Updated 2 months, 1 week ago
Column: Vegas lights and press box fights

The passing of Norm Clarke, the eye patch-wearing Terry native who spent a lifetime in newspapers, has brought a flood of eulogies and remembrances from across the state and country.

Updated 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Column: Missing out on magic of Divisionals

There are plenty of compelling reasons why there are no divisional basketball tournaments in Class AA. Dustyn Franchini-White, Avery Chouinard and I have our reasons why there should be.

Updated 3 months ago
Column: Fulfilling trip to Western B for Trojans

When Cody Orr was asked the last time the Troy boys basketball team made divisionals, he understandably hit a bit of a dead zone.

Updated 3 months, 1 week ago
Column: Painting a pretty volleyball picture

Jaimie Nelson might seem like an unlikely pick to be Glacier High’s next volleyball coach, in that it’s her first varsity coaching job at the age of 48.

Updated 3 months, 3 weeks ago
Column: Sherwood caught the bug early

Basketball fans in Kalispell should remember that George Sherwood was a centerpiece of the Flathead Braves team that made a surprising run at the 2012 State AA championship.

Updated 5 months, 1 week ago
Column: A ranking and a giant from the past

When you see the Iowa State Cyclones are 9-1 and ranked No. 3 in the men’s college basketball poll, you might think this is the best they’ve been since “The Mayor” — Nebraska coach Fred Hoiberg — was putting up sho…

Updated 5 months, 2 weeks ago
Column: Where QBs go - but not to stay

It was a spring evening a couple years ago when a longtime friend — we’d played fastpitch together, and like me he is maybe a little too fond of Red’s Bar — made an off-hand yet salient point.

Updated 6 months, 1 week ago
Column: Senior season a test for Thompson

What was supposed to happen, coming off a scintillating 2023 season, was that Skyleigh Thompson would again be a force for the Montana Grizzlies soccer team her senior year this fall.