Presented by DIAMOND HEATING & COOLING. Tuesday, November 17, 2020. San Diego State rushed for 326 yards against Hawaii last Saturday while beating the Rainbow Warriors 34-10. Boise State won’t have the luxury of that type of running game this Saturday in Aloha Stadium. There are no signs that George Holani is ready to return…… MORE
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SCOTT SLANT: Just appreciate 3-1
Presented by GREENWOOD’S SKI HAUS. Monday, November 16, 2020. The Boise State football team is at a critical juncture. Not in the race for the Mountain West championship, but in simply playing games one week to the next. Except for the lucky 1,100 the past two weeks in Albertsons Stadium, Broncos fans have been yanked…… MORE
BLUE TURF SPORTS REPORT WITH B.J. RAINS
Prater and Mallory talk to Boise State beat reporter B.J. Rains (Idaho Press, BlueTurfSports.com) about the Broncos’ victory over Colorado State – and how close the game was to not being played.… MORE
SCOTT SLANT: The special bounce-back
Presented by MAZ-TECH AUTOMOTIVE. Friday, November 13, 2020. We sliced and diced the Boise State defense’s deficiencies and the offense’s absences going into Thursday night’s game against Colorado State. It was six days of serious psychoanalysis after the loss to BYU. But special teams were barely mentioned. And that was the tipping point from the…… MORE
BRONCO GAME NIGHT: BOISE STATE 52, COLORADO STATE 21
POST-GAME ANALYSIS AND CALL-IN SHOW: Mike Prater and Johnny Mallory break down the Broncos’ Mountain West victory over Colorado State, which gave up three special teams TDs. Avery Williams had a special teams performance to remember, QB Hank Bachmeier returned at QB and LB Riley Whimpey went from “embarrassed” to fired up.… MORE
SCOTT SLANT: What do we really know?
Presented by DIAMOND HEATING & COOLING. Thursday, November 12, 2020. Will the real Boise State defense please stand up? There’s been a keen focus on the D this week, and why not? The Broncos are in uncharted territory after three games: last in the Mountain West in rushing defense at 246 yards per game and…… MORE
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH COMMISSIONER CRAIG THOMPSON
Prater and Mallory talk to Mountain West commissioner Craig Thompson about COVID threats to the MW/college football season, why the league is paying for all testing, league bowl game scenarios for this season, and the competitive battle between the MW and American Athletic Conference.… MORE
SCOTT SLANT: The trials of 2019
Presented by MAZ-TECH AUTOMOTIVE. Wednesday, November 11, 2020. Considering what college football teams have gone through in 2020, anything that happened in 2019 pales in comparison. But Boise State and Colorado State faced adversity going into their matchup the day after Thanksgiving last year in Fort Collins. A blizzard had buried Canvas Stadium, and crews…… MORE
LOCAL MAN AT THE MASTERS
Prater and Mallory talk to Star resident Mark Bowden, a longtime television cameraman who has worked the Masters for 30 years. He is back at Augusta this week and camped out at his traditional working space – the green TV tower on the famed 12th hole (pictured).… MORE
SCOTT SLANT: Shaking up the routine – again
Presented by MAZ-TECH AUTOMOTIVE. Tuesday, November 10, 2020. Boise State used to play lots of non-Saturday games in the WAC days. There were 34 of them in the regular season, most arranged that way to accommodate national TV. There were even four games on Wednesdays. But most of the time bye weeks helped soften the…… MORE
