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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Last week’s snowy first half at Nevada could end up being the perfect primer for this Saturday’s game at Wyoming. It seemingly snows every time the Broncos play in Laramie – several inches fell during blizzard-like conditions in their last trip there in 2020 – and all bets are off for another late-November trip to…
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RENO, Nev. – Snowy conditions didn’t bother the Boise State football team Saturday night at Nevada. In fact it fired them up. The Broncos embraced the wintry conditions and heavy snow, starting fast and not looking back in a dominant 41-3 win over Nevada at Mackay Stadium in Reno. “I loved it,” defensive tackle Scott…
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BOISE – If the Boise State men’s basketball team could have picked just one game this week to win, Saturday night against Washington State would have been it. And that’s exactly how it played out. After suffering a heartbreaking 68-66 loss to South Dakota State earlier in the week, the Broncos rebounded with an impressive…
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Leon Rice could have opened the season with a few easy games to help get his players some confidence and start the year off with wins. In fact that’s what the rest of the Mountain West did. But Rice, knowing that playing harder opponents early in the season can pay off later – even if…
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If there was a ever a good time for the 21-point underdog Nevada football team to be playing Boise State, this probably wouldn’t be it. Sure the Wolf Pack are at home in Mackey Stadium where the last five games between the two teams have been fairly close. But the Broncos are coming off a…
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BOISE – Marcus Shaver Jr. probably single-handedly won the Boise State men’s basketball team a Mountain West regular season title a year ago when he hit four different game-tying or go-ahead 3-pointers in the final minutes of wins last season. In his opening stanza of the encore Wednesday night in the season opener against South…
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