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Season recap: Former local players get airtime in season finale of HBO’s ‘Hard Knocks’

UPDATED: Sun., Sept. 13, 2020

Few faces from area college football programs saw much camera time in HBO’s popular NFL docuseries “Hard Knocks,” which concluded its 15th season on Tuesday.

Sports >  Idaho football

Former UI linebacker Kaden Elliss tabbed starter on Saints’ initial depth chart

UPDATED: Wed., Sept. 9, 2020

There was a distinct sense of surprise Monday among the New Orleans Saints’ social media following when the NFL team revealed its initial depth chart and had Idaho’s Kaden Elliss slotted No. 1 at strongside linebacker.

Sports >  NCAA

For three Idaho football seniors, Brian Robinson, Bruce Burns and Vei Tomasi, ‘Last Chance’ hits home

UPDATED: Mon., Sept. 14, 2020

The Idaho Vandals’ trio of Laney College products weren’t at all taken by surprise in late July, when they binged through the latest season of Last Chance U – a Netflix docuseries following the lives of players at football powerhouse junior colleges.

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Sports >  NCAA

Local collegians, high school products added to NFL practice squads Sunday

UPDATED: Sun., Sept. 6, 2020

Saturday came with discouraging news for various local college and high school products hoping for a spot on an NFL 53-man roster.

Sports >  EWU football

How Washington State, Idaho, Eastern Washington products fared on NFL’s 53-man roster cut day

UPDATED: Sat., Sept. 5, 2020

NFL hopes met harsh realities for a variety of local college players on Saturday. For others, meanwhile, the dreaded phone call never came, signifying they’d locked down a spot on the 53-man roster one week before the start of the regular season.

Sports >  Idaho football

Former University of Idaho president Chuck Staben accused of ‘smear campaign’ by ex-AD

UPDATED: Sun., Aug. 23, 2020

Former University of Idaho Athletic Director Rob Spear alleges in a lawsuit that Chuck Staben, the school’s president from 2014-19, launched a “smear campaign” that ultimately led to Spear’s termination.

Sports >  Idaho football

Big Sky’s cancellation of fall sports means Idaho football must turn attention to spring season

UPDATED: Thu., Aug. 13, 2020

After the Big Sky Conference on Thursday directly announced none of its fall teams would compete in or out of the league, University of Idaho athletics director Terry Gawlik and football coach Paul Petrino discussed a season without sports for the Vandals.

Sports >  Idaho football

University of Idaho hasn’t given up on nonconference football this fall

UPDATED: Fri., Aug. 7, 2020

While Presidents of Big Sky Conference schools have voted to move the league football schedule to the spring, as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, the University of Idaho is still trying to pull together in some form or fashion a nonconference football schedule of a handful of games for the fall.

Sports >  EWU football

Delay of games: Big Sky Conference football postponed to spring 2021

UPDATED: Fri., Aug. 7, 2020

If Division I football is played in the coming months, it won't be in Cheney or Moscow, Idaho.

Sports >  EWU football

Reports: Big Sky Conference football members will likely play in the spring

UPDATED: Thu., Aug. 6, 2020

Several reports Thursday suggest that the Big Sky Conference is aiming for a spring football season.

Sports >  Idaho football

University of Idaho confirms nine athletes have tested positive for COVID-19

UPDATED: Tue., Aug. 4, 2020

When the University of Idaho tested fall sport athletes in July, nine out of 125, mostly football players, came up positive for coronavirus.

Sports >  EWU football

A look at the 13 ex-Eastern Washington and Idaho players at NFL training camps

UPDATED: Fri., Nov. 27, 2020

While the Big Sky Conference football season remains in limbo on the cusp of August, more than a dozen ex-Eastern Washington and Idaho standouts enter preseason NFL training camps around the country.