March 10, 1946: The birthday of the late Jim Valvano, who not only coached North Carolina State to the 1983 national championship, but also did as much for cancer awareness as anyone in the 20th century.
March 9, 2015: Toward the end of its 47th season of four-year basketball, Boise State nabs the first Top 25 ranking in school history. The Broncos made the AP Poll at No. 25 after capturing a share of the Mountain West regular season championship two days earlier.
March 6, 2016, 10 years ago today: News breaks that Peyton Manning has informed the Denver Broncos he’s going to retire after 18 years in the NFL. The decision came a month after the five-time MVP capped his career with a 24-10 win over Carolina in Super Bowl 50.
March 5, 2011, 15 years ago today: After 10 years in the league, Boise State plays its final men’s basketball conference game in the WAC, beating San Jose State, 66-51.
Boise State opened the game a house afire, building a 17-point lead over San Diego State midway through the first half. The Aztecs got the lead down to seven at the intermission. We’ve seen this movie before. But this time there was an alternate ending.
March 3, 1984: With the groundwork already laid for what would be a very successful Olympics in Los Angeles that summer, Peter Ueberroth is elected the commissioner of baseball to succeed Bowie Kuhn effective October 1.
March 2, 2012: For the first time in 17 years, Major League Baseball expands its playoff format, going to 10 teams by adding a second wild-card berth to each league.
February 27, 1992: Tiger Woods becomes the youngest golfer to play in a PGA Tour event in 35 years. Woods was only 16 when he teed it up in the Nissan Los Angeles Open.
February 26, 2004: Boise State kicks off a key WAC road trip by racking up its biggest margin of victory in a road game in school history, routing SMU 89-50 in Dallas.
It was another one of those “last matchups for the foreseeable future” Tuesday night in ExtraMile Arena (although this would make for a great non-conference pairing).