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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GLENDALE, Ariz. – It wasn’t supposed to end this way. Despite being double-digit underdogs heading into Tuesday’s College Football Playoff quarterfinal matchup with Penn State at the Fiesta Bowl, many believed Boise State would shock the college football world once again. It felt like destiny – with the Broncos back in the Fiesta Bowl and…
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – Boise State coach Spencer Danielson spoke from the heart just hours after the College Football Playoff bracket was revealed three weeks ago. He had no idea what his quote would become. But he’s also not backing down. “Definitely didn’t plan on it becoming a shirt, I can promise you that,” Danielson said.…
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – Boise State players posed for pictures with the Fiesta Bowl trophy during a media day event Sunday morning at the JW Marriott Camelback Inn in Scottsdale. And it just felt right. It just had to be the Fiesta Bowl, right? Boise State’s debut appearance in the College Football Playoff Tuesday in the…
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SAN JOSE – Coach Leon Rice emerged from a victorious locker room already changed from his polo shirt and slacks into sweats for his postgame media interviews Saturday at the Event Center Sure, he was in a hurry and ready to get the team charter headed back to Boise. But he also had no choice…
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BOISE – O’Mar Stanley shook his head, smiled and paused when asked to describe some of the passes from teammate Alvaro Cardenas. “Great googly moogly,” Stanley quipped. “This guy is just crazy, right?” Cardenas had 15 points and a career-high 12 assists – including three alley-oops to Stanley – to lead Boise State to a…
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BOISE – Maybe it was the Boise State football team firing up the crowd. Maybe it was a terse talk from the coaches in the locker room. Whatever it was that happened the halftime – it worked. Tyson Degenhart had 19 points and 10 rebounds and the Boise State men’s basketball team overcame a slow…
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