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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BOISE – As it turns out it wasn’t just one or two positive COVID-19 cases that forced the Boise State men’s basketball team to postpone the past three games. “We had quite a large number that tested positive,” Boise State coach Leon Rice said Monday. “And we had some guys that were really, really sick.”…
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Bronco Nation News has entered into a business partnership with KTIK 95.3 FM The Ticket to enhance and expand coverage of Boise State Athletics. As part of the agreement Idaho Sports Talk hosts John Mallory and Mike Prater will make appearances on live shows on the Bronco Nation News social media channels and website, while…
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The Boise State men’s basketball team returned to team activities Friday with those members of the team and coaching staff that cleared protocols, a team spokesman confirmed to Bronco Nation News. The traveling party went into a five-day quarantine beginning last Sunday after multiple positive COVID-19 cases were discovered just hours prior to a Jan.…
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New Boise State running backs coach Keith Bhonapha met with the media Friday for the first time since his hire was announced. Bhonapha, an assistant at Boise State from 2006 to 2013, spent the last eight years at Washington. Here’s the full video of his Zoom press conference with the media:
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Boise State has hired Kelly Poppinga as co-special teams coordinator and EDGE position coach, the Broncos announced Friday. Poppinga replaces Stacy Collins, who held similar roles before leaving earlier this week for Penn State. Boise State still has one assistant coach opening with the recent departure of cornerbacks coach Jeron Johnson. Poppinga comes to Boise State…
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Boise State cornerbacks coach Jeron Johnson has left the program to spend more time with his family. Bronco Nation News was first to report the news on Thursday and Boise State confirmed it with a release later in the day. “This was a tough decision,” Johnson said in the release. “I will always have love…
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