Stories by Peter Harriman for the Spokesman-Review

Sports > Idaho football

Idaho football hopes transition to Big Sky gives young offensive line chance to mesh

Fri., Aug. 17, 2018

Offensive line play just fundamentally looks right when it is working. Apply force, move a resisting object. Jump out at the correct angle and cut off an object vectoring toward the backfield. It is easy to see and appreciate.

Sports > Idaho football

Idaho athletics trying to balance revenue shortfall, leadership uncertainty with new arena project on the horizon

Thu., Aug. 9, 2018

It has been quite a year at the University of Idaho – roiled by sudden leadership changes and a thorny transition in the football program.

Sports > Idaho football

Mason Petrino, Colton Richardson both showing signs of improvement at quarterback for Idaho football

Tue., Aug. 7, 2018

Less than a week into the Idaho Vandals’ preseason camp, Mason Petrino’s overarching issue isn’t a looming quarterback competition with Colton Richardson.

Sports > Idaho football

Vandals report to camp and show plenty of optimism for return to Big Sky

UPDATED: Fri., Aug. 3, 2018

Next to hoisting a trophy at the end of the year, the best day in a football season might be the day players report for fall camp.

Sports > Idaho football

Independent report sheds no new light on Idaho’s handling of sexual assault, harassment complaints

Wed., Aug. 1, 2018

A long-awaited report on the University of Idaho’s handling of sexual assault and harassment complaints five years ago contained no startling new information and offered conclusions that have been debated on the Moscow campus since this spring.

Sports > Idaho football

Five questions heading into football camp: Idaho Vandals

Wed., Aug. 1, 2018

As the Idaho Vandals head into their first preseason camp since their return to the Big Sky Conference and the Football Championship Subdivision, the many pieces of the puzzle of assembling a team are laid out before them.

Sports > Idaho basketball

Ex-Idaho standout Victor Sanders to play for Denver Nuggets in NBA summer league

UPDATED: Wed., June 27, 2018

Victor Sanders, who finished his collegiate basketball career as Idaho’s second-leading scorer all-time, has signed with the Denver Nuggets’ NBA summer-league team.

Sports > Idaho football

Idaho Vandals football team matches program record in NCAA’s Academic Progress Rate

UPDATED: Wed., May 23, 2018

Academic problems that left the Idaho football team ineligible for postseason play as recently as 2014 remained in the past as the Vandals tied a program record in the latest Academic Progress Rate released by the NCAA Wednesday.

Sports > Idaho football

Idaho completed spring football with optimism despite some setbacks

Wed., May 2, 2018

Idaho football was not spared the irrevocable calculus of spring.

Sports > Idaho football

Offense rules the day as several Vandals shine in Idaho’s Silver and Gold game

UPDATED: Fri., April 27, 2018

A seven-play opening drive that began with a 20-yard pass from Mason Petrino to Kaden Ellis and ended with Petrino racing around right end from two yards out for a touchdown was a striking way for Idaho to open its spring game Friday.

Sports > Idaho football

Vandals noseguards making an impact

Thu., April 26, 2018

The one time Wayne Eades made a tackle in the backfield during an Idaho practice this week, it unleased a tirade from coach Paul Petrino directed at the offensive line.

Sports > Idaho football

WR D.J. Lee, QBs Mason Petrino, Colton Richardson star in Vandals scrimmage

UPDATED: Sat., April 21, 2018

Idaho Vandals fans no doubt hope Jennifer Lee will be piling up the frequent-flier miles this fall.

Sports > Idaho football

Idaho athletics, facing budget deficit, must get creative

UPDATED: Sat., April 14, 2018

An athletics department budget shortfall of about $1 million the University of Idaho has been able to stave off four years with budget reserves has come to a point where it must be resolved.

Sports > Idaho football

Associated Students of the University of Idaho approve resolution calling for athletic director Rob Spear’s resignation

UPDATED: Thu., April 5, 2018

In a Wednesday night meeting that lasted more than three hours, the Associated Students of the University of Idaho Wednesday approved a resolution calling for the resignation of athletics director Rob Spear following his acknowledgment that he and others at the UI mishandled sexual assault and harassment complaints by a former Vandals diver and a cross country runner against a former football player in 2013.

News > Education

At Oppenheimer Ethics Symposium, longtime security reporter defends Fourth Estate

UPDATED: Thu., March 29, 2018

In an era when the credibility of news reporting is regularly called into question – including by the president of the United States – Adam Goldman Thursday told a nearly full University of Idaho auditorium that journalists hold facts in high regard.

Sports > Idaho football

Idaho AD Rob Spear’s future uncertain

Wed., March 28, 2018

As the Associated Students of the University of Idaho listened Wednesday night to testimony about a resolution they will vote on next week calling for the firing of Vandals athletics director Rob Spear, they sought to reconcile a former student-athlete’s account that Spear was inept and callous in dealing with her sexual assault and harassment by a UI football player in 2013 with assertions from current athletes, coaches and UI president Chuck Staben that Spear is a forward-thinking campus leader in promoting student safety.

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