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Lost in the academic hand-wringing and presidential apology at the University of Idaho this week over assorted vulgarities perpetuated by students and others at the recent basketball cotillion with Boise State was a bulletin of Richter magnitude. There were fans at a Vandals game? Look, not to dismiss any over-the-top grossitude in the undergraduate seats – shame-shame, guys – but the guess here is that the Broncos were considerably less disturbed by the verbal grenades than by the realization that something close enough to competitive basketball is being committed at UI these days to entice 4,731 thrill-seekers into the Cowan Spectrum. There have been years when it took six games to get that many people through the door. OK, it was last year/John Blanchette, SR. More here.
Question: Do you agree with John Blanchette that the basketball being played in Moscow may be the biggest sports surprise in the region this winter?
D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.
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jazzyvandal on February 06 at 8:50 a.m.
Yes! The Vandals surprised me. Vandal basketball in previous years was some of the worst basketball I’ve ever seen and I thought it would take a couple of years to turn things around. I was wrong!