B.J. Rains is a four-time winner of the NSMA Idaho Sportswriter of the Year Award. He covered Boise State Athletics for the Idaho Press from 2013 to 2021 before leaving to create Bronco Nation News. Rains, who was a voter in the Associated Press Top 25 men’s college basketball poll from 2014-2021, also makes weekly appearances on KTIK 95.3 FM each Friday at 4 p.m.
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Former Boise State track and field star and NCAA champion Emma Bates made history with a fifth place finish in the woman’s division of the Boston Marathon Monday. Bates, who ran at Boise State from 2010-15, held the lead with about four miles remaining before falling off the pace in the final few miles. The…
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Boise State added its third and potentially final piece to Leon Rice’s ‘super team’ on Friday with the commitment of St. John’s transfer O’Mar Stanley. Stanley made the announcement on Twitter. The 6-foot-8 forward made 18 starts for St. John’s as a season last year, mostly towards the end of the season. He averaged 15.1…
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Max Rice is one of the best players on the Boise State men’s basketball team and one of the top returning shooters in the Mountain West Conference. Yet some still think he shouldn’t even be on scholarship. There’s a catch, of course. His dad Leon Rice is Boise State’s head coach, and as an employee…
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Sophomore running back Ashton Jeanty had 167 yards and three touchdowns on dive touches as the Boise State offense rolled to a 56-25 win in a modified scoring format over the defense on Saturday in the spring game. Jeanty had touchdown runs of 62 yards and 20 yards and also scored on a 75-yard screen…
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NOTE: Paying subscribers were sent an email with the full video interview with Cam Martin. Cam Martin did his homework. And Boise State ended up being a no-brainer. The former D2 All-American and 6-foot-9 Kansas transfer announced Tuesday he’ll play his final college season at Boise State. And he explained the decision in an exclusive…
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BOISE – Guard Sada NgaNga is transferring from the Boise State basketball team after just one year with the program, sources told BroncoNationNews.com Wednesday. NgaNga, the highest-ranked prep recruit in program history, averaged just 2.0 points and 1.5 rebounds in 17 games for the Broncos and largely underachieved given the hype he arrived with. The…
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