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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Longtime Boise State Football assistant coach Kent Riddle is stepping down to spend more time with his family, Bronco Nation News first reported on Tuesday. Riddle has spent the past 29 seasons as a college coach, including 13 at Boise State. He was with the Broncos from 2001-2005 and then again from 2014-2021. During his…
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The Boise State men’s basketball team starts a three-game in five-day stretch Tuesday when it hosts Air Force Tuesday night at ExtraMile Arena at 7 p.m. The Broncos (12-4, 3-0 MW), who have won nine games in a row, are playing their first home game in three weeks and the first of just two in…
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ALBUQUERQUE, NM — It certainly won’t be the prettiest win the Boise State men’s basketball team has this season. But it was a win — the Broncos’ ninth in a row — so they’ll gladly take it. The Broncos shot just 35.5% from the field, missed 17 free throws and allowed New Mexico to shoot…
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Boise State basketball coach Leon Rice has been known to sit down for a hand of blackjack or roll the dice at a craps table occasionally while in Las Vegas for recruiting, Mountain West Media Day or other reasons. So of course he compared Boise State’s eight-game win streak and the busy schedule the next…
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RENO, Nev. – A 14-day layoff did nothing to slow the momentum of the Boise State men’s basketball team. Marcus Shaver Jr. had 28 points and Emmanuel Akot had 23 as Boise State returned to action after a two-week pause due to COVID-19 protocols with a dominant 85-70 road win at Nevada on Wednesday night.…
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The Boise State football team has hired former Southern Utah head coach Demario Warren as cornerbacks coach. Warren spent the last 14 years at Southern Utah, including the past six as head coach. Warren led Southern Utah to the second Big Sky Conference Championship in school history in 2017, but agreed to “part ways” with…
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