April 21, 2012: Safeco Field in Seattle sees a perfect game pitched for the first time, but the Mariners are on the wrong end of it. Chicago White Sox hurler Philip Humber tossed the 21st perfect game in major league history in a 4-0 blanking of the M’s.
April 18, 1995, 30 years ago today: Joe Montana, one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time, announces his retirement from the NFL. Montana’s 16-year Hall of Fame career included four Super Bowl championships with the San Francisco 49ers.
April 17, 2015, 10 years ago today: Former Boise Hawk Kris Bryant makes his long-awaited major league debut and goes 0-for-4 with three strikeouts in a 5-4 loss to San Diego at Wrigley Field. It was reminiscent of Bryant’s first game with the Hawks in 2013.
College football’s spring transfer portal opens today, with Boise State’s Andrew Simpson and Braxton Fely already ticketed for it. And now you can add punter James Ferguson-Reynolds.
April 15, 1985, 40 years ago today: In Las Vegas, two of the greatest fighters of the era meet when middleweight champion “Marvelous” Marvin Hagler defends his title against WBC light-middleweight champ Thomas “Hit Man” Hearns.
April 14, 2019: One of the greatest comeback stories in the history of sports, as 43-year-old Tiger Woods wins his first major title in 11 years and his first Masters in 14 years with a one-stroke victory at Augusta National.
April 11, 2000, 25 years ago today: The San Francisco Giants, after 40 years in the wind tunnel known as Candlestick Park, open their sparkling new downtown stadium with a 6-5 loss to the rival Los Angeles Dodgers, but that hardly put a damper on Pacific Bell Park (now Oracle Park).
Boise State hoops is going to be a rebuild job next season. One particular Bronco to enter the transfer portal, Emmanuel Ugbo, makes it quite apparent. There was a lot of playing time there for the taking moving forward, but Ugbo wants to give it a shot elsewhere.
April 8, 1975, 50 years ago today: Baseball’s first Black manager, Frank Robinson, makes his debut a winning one—both in the dugout and on the field. The Cleveland Indians’ player-manager hit a first-inning home run, and Cleveland went on to a 7-5 win over the New York Yankees.
We’ve done this a lot over the past four years, but here goes with a final rundown of a big game by Tyson Degenhart. He tried to will Boise State to victory in the Crown semifinals against Nebraska Saturday, but his Broncos career ended in a 79-69 loss.