Presented by BACON BOISE. This Day In Sports…August 17, 2008, 15 years ago today: Swimmer Michael Phelps breaks the 36-year-old record of Mark Spitz with his eighth gold medal in a single Olympics. Phelps was the face of the Beijing Games, setting four individual world records and helping in three relay world records. One of…… MORE
Presented by VETERANS PLUMBING. Wednesday Weekly: August 16, 2023. Boise State coach Andy Avalos loves that linebacker spot. It’s a natural for a guy who was a two-time first-team All-WAC pick at that position 20 years ago. Of all the concerns on the untested Broncos defense going into the 2023 season, linebacker is not one…… MORE
Presented by VETERANS PLUMBING. This Day In Sports…August 15, 1993, 30 years ago today: Greg Norman completes a “Grand Slam” of playoff losses by lipping out his putt on the PGA Championship’s second sudden death playoff hole, giving Paul Azinger the title at Inverness in Toledo, OH. Norman also lost playoffs in golf’s other three…… MORE
Presented by COMMERCIAL TIRE. Monday Special: August 14, 2023. Author’s note: Here’s that special Scott Slant column followup for you. On Friday I ran a search on Chat GPT about Boise State football and ran the result in my column. What came back was generally accurate. But there were eight inaccuracies in the Chat GPT…… MORE
Presented by ZAMZOWS. Friday Special: August 11, 2023. Author’s note: As we sit about three weeks away from Boise State’s opener at Washington, here’s a special Scott Slant column for you. I ran a search on Chat GPT about Boise State football, and the result is below. What came back was generally accurate. But there…… MORE
Presented by BIG BUN DRIVE-IN. This Day In Sports…August 10, 2016: One day shy of her 43rd birthday, Boise cyclist Kristin Armstrong wins her third straight gold medal in the women’s time trial at the Rio Olympics, mounting a fierce sprint into a headwind to overcome a 2.2-second deficit and win by 5.5 seconds. Weeks earlier,…… MORE
Presented by VETERANS PLUMBING. Wednesday Weekly: August 9, 2023. It was wild that this much-anticipated event happened 24 hours after the Pac-12 blew up. But it was a welcome distraction. Signs had been pointing this way leading up to last Saturday at 5 p.m., but did you believe it would happen? Burley star Gatlin Bair,…… MORE
Presented by BIG BUN DRIVE-IN. This Day In Sports…August 8, 1988, 35 years ago today: The Chicago Cubs finally play the first night game in the history of Wrigley Field. And it was memorable for its frustration. The nocturnal debut against Philadelphia was rained out after 3½ innings, so the first official night game at…… MORE
Presented by COMMERCIAL TIRE. This Day In Sports…August 7, 1995: The return of the Raiders to Oakland is finally made official when Al Davis signs a lease that commits the team to at least a 16-year stay at the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum. The Raiders would resume play in the Bay Area a month later. Davis…… MORE
Presented by ZAMZOWS. This Day In Sports…August 4, 2018, five years ago today: We covered this subject back in February on the five-year anniversary of Jerry Kramer’s election to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Let’s do it again, and celebrate the real thing, as Kramer steps up to the podium at his induction ceremony in…… MORE
