Dave Trimmer

Tyson Durfey had a plan and a dream. In his heart he wanted to be a champion roper but his mind told him to focus on being a businessman. That's how he was raised in Savannah, Mo. "My dad's very strict, a good guy, but financially he always did what was right," Durfey said. "You didn't have the money to rodeo, you didn't do it."

Ask local basketball star Angie Bjorklund the best and worst things about representing her country at a world championship tournament in a foreign country and she can quickly click off the good and the bad. But as she talks about the gold-medal winning experience with Team USA at the U-19 World Championships in Bratislava, Slovakia, one thing really jumps out for the gym rat and one of the best female basketball players in Spokane history.

MOSCOW, Idaho – Adam Korby may have an upside-down view of things, but he's at the perfect position to assess the progress of the Idaho football team. Korby, the junior center from Fort Collins, Colo., has a close working relationship with untested redshirt freshman quarterback Nathan Enderle and the unproven wide receivers plus the thin defensive line. But he didn't sound too concerned Tuesday morning at the conclusion of the Vandals' first day of practice in full pads.

SAN JOSE, Calif. – If David Vobora is honest enough to say Nick Holt was off his rocker and Dennis Erickson had a laissez faire attitude, you have to believe what he has to say about Robb Akey, the newest Idaho football coach. "A man is only as good as his words and actions," the Vandals star linebacker said. "When you look at him, you can see it in his eyes."

Wade Benson, whose Eastern Washington volleyball team has reached the championship game of the Big Sky Conference tournament all seven years he has been head coach, resigned Monday to become the top assistant at Auburn. The Eagles, who also finished in the top three of the regular season standings and won consecutive titles from 2002-04, won the tournament in 2001 and advanced to the second round of the NCAA tournament. The win over Oregon State is the school's only win in the NCAA tournament.

Eastern Washington University has forwarded an outside investigation into its men's basketball program to the NCAA with proposed self-imposed sanctions that include the loss of one scholarship for two years. The investigation was prompted when Denny Humphrey, a former volunteer coach who was paid to help in EWU summer basketball camps, was given a $6,000 increase in that pay after his son, Rhett, was taken off scholarship by recently fired coach Mike Burns last spring.