Presented by BACON BOISE. Wednesday Weekly: May 17, 2023. The place to be Friday and Saturday is Mountain View High School. That’s where the Idaho 5A and 4A Track & Field Championships will be held. So that’s where Burley High’s Gatlin Bair, the highest-rated football recruit in state history, will try to continue his assault…… MORE
Presented by WESTERN HEATING & AIR. This Day In Sports…May 16, 1928: The day Billy Martin is born. The hot-headed but talented Martin managed the New York Yankees five different times between 1975 and 1988, an era peppered by fights with opposing players, his own players, and a marshmallow salesman. But there was success on…… MORE
Presented by COMMERCIAL TIRE. This Day In Sports…May 15, 2003, 20 years ago today: In the midst of a national hubbub over Annika Sorenstam’s upcoming appearance in a PGA Tour event (the Colonial) the following week, the Albertson’s Boise Open announces a sponsor’s exemption for 13-year-old Hawaiian phenom Michelle Wie. The six-foot-tall eighth-grader with the…… MORE
Presented by ZAMZOWS. This Day In Sports…May 12, 1970: Ernie Banks, “Mr. Cub”, thrills the Wrigley Field crowd with his 500th career home run in a game against the Atlanta Braves. Banks slugged 512 homers all told—he led the National League in dingers twice: in 1958 and 1960. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1977…… MORE
Presented by FRANZ WITTE NURSERY. This Day In Sports…May 11, 2015: After an investigation found that New England quarterback Tom Brady probably knew about the Patriots’ intentional under-inflation of footballs in their 45-7 victory over Indianapolis in the AFC Championship Game in January, the NFL suspends Brady for the first four games of the 2015…… MORE
Presented by FRANZ WITTE GARDEN CENTER. Wednesday Weekly: May 10, 2023. While we have a moment, let’s go over Taylen Green’s season box score—as in, where do his 586 rushing yards and 10 rushing touchdowns last year stack up among quarterbacks in Boise State history? I can’t believe I haven’t done that yet. Turns out…… MORE
Presented by WESTERN HEATING & AIR. This Day In Sports…May 9, 1918: A Boston Red Sox pitcher has five hits but takes the loss in a 4-3 defeat at the hands of the Washington Senators. His name was Babe Ruth, and the next season he backed away from pitching to concentrate on hitting and playing…… MORE
Presented by COMMERCIAL TIRE. This Day In Sports…May 8, 2018, five years ago today: For the first time in big league history, a no-hitter in Canada is thrown by a Canadian. The Seattle Mariners’ James Paxton, a 29-year-old lefthander from Ladner, BC, shut down the Blue Jays 5-0 at Rogers Centre in Toronto. Paxton threw…… MORE
Presented by ZAMZOWS. This Day In Sports…May 5, 2013, 10 years ago today: In the prime of his career at age 28, LeBron James of the Miami Heat becomes only the fifth player in NBA history to win four Most Valuable Player awards, joining Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Michael Jordan. James and…… MORE
Presented by WESTERN HEATING & AIR. This Day In Sports…May 4, 2018, five years ago today: Albert Pujols of the L.A. Angels collects his 3000th career hit in a 5-0 win at Seattle’s Safeco Field. Pujols did it in a very un-Pujols way, with a broken-bat single off Mariners pitcher Mike Leake. He was the 32nd member of…… MORE
