Tonight is a big night for football around the Treasure Valley.

Too busy, if you ask me.

Tonight should be focused on the high school football state championship games being played at Bronco Stadium, Holt Arena in Pocatello and the Kibbie Dome in Moscow.

It is the biggest night of the year for high school football but some of that focus is taken away from those high school kids.

Boise State is...read more

Idaho coach Robb Akey said Monday he wants his team to start a new winning streak this season — and against rival Boise State.

Idaho had won six of its last seven games before losing to Fresno State 31-21 on Saturday.

The Vandals (7-3, 4-2 WAC) enter Saturday's game at No. 6 Boise State (9-0, 4-0 WAC) having lost two of their last three games.

"The Beautiful thing about starting...read more

There have been mentions by esteemed writers — and voters — nationwide that Boise State quarterback Kellen Moore should be a contender for the Heisman Trophy.

Others have stated Moore already is.

We pose this question on the front page of our sports section Saturday.

It's a legitimate question at the midway point of this college football season.

But is it really feasible that...read more

The parents of Idaho State receiver Andrew Benavides are expecting their son to make a full recovery from the spinal cord injury he suffered early in the second half of Saturday's 40-12 loss at Northern Arizona.

Benavides, a 5-foot-7, 167-pound freshman from Santa Rosa, Calif., remains hospitalized at Flagstaff (Ariz.) Medical Center.

Benavides had 224 all-purpose yards before he was injured...read more

Boise State president Bob Kustra hasn't been affraid to speak out against the Bowl Championship Series.

Kustra has actually been quite vocal about college football's current system for picking its national champion and big-money game participants.

On Wednesday, Kustra was backing Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch, who wants President Barack Obama to ask the Justice Department to look into the BCS.

Here's...read more

WAC commissioner Karl Benson said Monday that if two teams ahead of Boise State in the BCS standings lose, the Broncos deserve to move up in the standings.

Benson said strength of schedule is often "an easy way to eliminate a team," from the national championship picture.

"I hope that the system will afford, if that scenario plays out, Boise State to play in the national championship...read more

The Boise State Broncos are a lock for their second Bowl Championship Series berth in four seasons, right?

As Lee Corso says: not so fast, my friend.

The Broncos still have plenty of work to do and will need some help along the way.

They will have to again run the table and, as BCS analyst Jerry Palm pointed out to me, they need teams around them to lose.

Cincinnati is rising fast.

Iowa keeps...read more

Boise State's football team has earned its highest ranking ever.

The Broncos are ranked No. 4 in the BCS standings, which were released Sunday afternoon.

It was the first BCS rankings released this season.

Boise State's best ranking in any poll or standings — No. 5 — came following the 2006 season and has been matched at different times this season in the Associated Press and...read more

Boise State football fell one spot in this week's Associated Press poll, but moved back up to No. 5 in the recently released USA Today Top 25 coaches' poll.

For the second straight week, the Boise State football team dropped one spot in a national poll.

Boise State (6-0) fell one spot in this week's Associated Press Top 25 to No. 6.

Cincinnati (6-0) leaped the Broncos and has 1163 votes...read more

You've probably noticed changes here on Page Two in your sports

section today.

You might have also wondered who that guy in the picture is.

A proper introduction really should include a firm handshake.

For obvious reasons we'll have to do without. For now.

My name is Tom Fox and I am the new sports editor at the Idaho Press-Tribune.

I have covered local sports in the Treasure Valley...read more