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Feeling 100 percent

SEATTLE – What disappointing season? After Alex Brink and Brandon Gibson hooked up for a 35-yard touchdown with 31 seconds left to give Washington State a 42-35 lead and Alfonso Jackson protected it with an end zone interception on the last play, much of the sting from just a five-win season was erased.
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Idaho has last chance for WAC win

Robb Akey told a little white lie this week. Asked what a season-ending win against Utah State today would do for his football team, the first-year Idaho coach said, "It's going to put a smile on my face for the first time in a long time."
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Vandal seniors accentuate positive

You can say resilient, but don't try unfair. Though some of the Vandals' fourth- and fifth-year players have had four coaches and only 13 wins to show for their football careers at Idaho, the seniors are surprisingly positive as they face their last game on Saturday.
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Cougars end 20-game skid, beat EWU

Her career high was eight points and she had missed the only 3-pointer she launched, so when Washington State needed her the most, Heather Molzen turned everything upside down. With Eastern Washington racing to a 13-0 lead at Reese Court Sunday afternoon, Molzen ended the drought with a 3-pointer and went on to pour in 21 points and rally the Cougars to a 70-59 win over the Eagles in a nonconference women's basketball game.
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Vandals dismantled

BOISE – Idaho dropped any chance it had to upset 17th-ranked Boise State Saturday afternoon, though it may be hard to believe an upset was a consideration after the Broncos put a 58-14 whipping on the Vandals before 30,681 fans at Bronco Stadium. "For the first half it was a football game," Idaho running back Deonte Jackson said. "They were scoring, we were scoring. Plays were being made, plays were being stopped."
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Likely to be a blue day

BOISE – It's no secret the Idaho football team faces a difficult challenge today. The Vandals play 18th-ranked Boise State. The Broncos have won eight straight games, 16 straight in the Western Athletic Conference, 42 straight on the blue turf of Bronco Stadium in the regular season and – most important – eight straight against Idaho.
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Daugherty relishes recruits

Washington State searched high and low and coast to coast in an effort to improve the women's basketball program. The inaugural recruiting class for first-year coach June Daugherty is big and beautiful in the eyes of Daugherty.
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UI-BSU rivals rivalry game

Most of the talk about the Idaho Vandals-Boise State Broncos football game on Rivalry Weekend is about whether this really is a rivalry. "It's very important to me," Vandals coach Robb Akey said. "The rival games are one of the great things about college. It adds a lot of life to this time of season. But it hasn't been a rivalry. It's been a Boise tradition. My job as head football coach is making this deal a rivalry again."
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Zags women end drought, whip Huskies by 19 points

It's been forever since Gonzaga beat Washington in a women's basketball game. Forever ended Monday night when the Bulldogs beat the Huskies for the first time in 18 tries – 91-72 before 2,352 fans at McCarthey Athletic Center.
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Busy bye for Idaho

Rivalry Week starts today for the Idaho football team. The Vandals return to practice after four days off because they don't play this weekend. Although the focus is mostly fundamentals, a few things will get accomplished with next week's game at Boise State in mind.
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Back in the swim

Volleyball has taken Jaimie Lee Hosfeld so far she's back to where she started. No, the former Ferris star isn't back home, unless you consider a swimming pool home.
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Ready to shock

George Pfeifer didn't wince when he heard that junior point guard Jordan Brooks had a bold prediction for the Idaho Vandals. "We're under the radar, ranked last in the WAC," Brooks said. "That's cool, we like that, that's motivation. We've got a chance to shock the nation."
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Idaho suffers 8th consecutive loss

At least the Idaho Vandals aren't banging their heads against the wall now. "It's heart-breaking," standout senior linebacker David Vobora said. "Our coach uses the analogy you're chiseling away at a wall, trying to get through it. You don't know how thick it is on the other side. Unfortunately, we found out it was a little thicker than we thought. But you've got to believe it's right there, it's got to be paper thin."
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Idaho looks for way out of winless WAC season

MOSCOW, Idaho – Maybe it's fitting that Idaho football coach Robb Akey came up with a simile about being lost in a forest when talking about facing the offensive line of Louisiana Tech, this afternoon's opponent at the Kibbie Dome. With a 1-8 record, 0-5 in the Western Athletic Conference, it might appear to many that the Vandals' program has been lost.
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Always on guard

For a region that produces some of the best high school girls basketball players in the Northwest, the four Division I women's team in the area, as a group, could best be described as average. Or worse.
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Jackson sticks with it

MOSCOW, Idaho – Deonte Jackson just loves tattoos. The Idaho freshman running back has been known to burst through the line, make a cut and tattoo a defensive back with the kind of blow that leaves black and blue marks.
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Hungry Vandals get taste of Pack

Success and consistency – or consistent successes – have been hard for the Idaho football team to come by this season and the task doesn't get any easier this afternoon when the Vandals take on Nevada at Reno. But just because the Wolf Pack have steamrolled Idaho in their first two meetings as members of the Western Athletic Conference and the Vandals are burdened with a six-game losing streak, don't expect the Vandals to roll over for the 1 p.m. kickoff.
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Second quarters cost Idaho dearly

Being aware of second-quarter meltdowns didn't help the Idaho football team. Going into last weekend's game against New Mexico State, the Vandals had been outscored 106-30 in the second quarter. Then the Aggies outscored them 28-7 in the second quarter to turn a 14-7 deficit into a 35-14 lead en route to a 45-31 win.
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Vandals face ailing Aggies

If there were ever a reason for the Idaho football team to focus on itself more than an opponent, this is the week. New Mexico State is dealing with so many injuries the Vandals aren't sure who'll they face when they kickoff at 5 p.m. today in Las Cruces.
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Vandals hurt by big deficits

It's starting to sound like a broken record: The Idaho football team gets way down and then battles back, only to come up short. Should the young Vandals be discouraged with a 1-6 record or encouraged that they make most of their games competitive?
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Football woos him again

Regrets? You bettcha. Tyree Clowe, the most prolific running back in Greater Spokane League football history who led Central Valley to a state championship as a junior in 1997, has regrets. He washed out at Idaho after barely a year, not long after he ran for 2,318 yards as a CV senior in 1998 on his way to 3,937 for his career, marks that haven't been challenged.
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New attitude for UI men’s basketball

MOSCOW, Idaho – Things are going to be different for the Idaho basketball team this season. From the outside looking in it's obvious. There are eight new players to go with six holdovers from George Pfeifer's first team that was a dismal 4-27 overall, 1-15 in the Western Athletic Conference.
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Vandals falter on homecoming

MOSCOW, Idaho – Well, the Idaho football team did it again. The Vandals gave it the ol' college try on homecoming, but too many miscues and not enough big plays allowed Fresno State to pound out a 37-24 victory before 14,205 fans in the Kibbie Dome Saturday afternoon.
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Vandals score on unplanned trick play

MOSCOW, Idaho – Robb Akey, tongue firmly in cheek, called it a trick play, but the only trick was finding out how to score it. Down 31-7 to Fresno State late in the third quarter at the Kibbie Dome Saturday afternoon, Idaho was facing a third-and-9 from midfield. Quarterback Brian Nooy scrambled past the line of scrimmage and fumbled when he was drilled by Marcus Riley.