October 21, 2000: Boise State opens the final season of Big West play with a 59-0 annihilation of North Texas, the Broncos’ first shutout in 13 years.
This Day In Sports: Oakland’s last World Series trip
October 20, 1990: With a 2-1 loss in the Oakland Coliseum, the Oakland Athletics are swept in four games by the Cincinnati Reds in the World Series. This came two years to the day after the A’s were finished off in five games by the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 1988 Series.
Scott Slant Wednesday Weekly: Staying fresh on the defensive front
In the heyday of the Boise State defense a decade ago, the Broncos essentially utilized two waves on defensive line, sometimes substituting all four positions at the same time. The Air Force game Saturday could sure use something like that.
This Day In Sports: An epic blue turf scene, and an epic rout
October 18, 2002, 20 years ago today: One of the most electric nights in Bronco Stadium history, as a then-record crowd of 30,924 and a national audience on ESPN watch Boise State dismantle Fresno State 67-21.
This Day In Sports: The birth of Boise’s hockey nation
October 17, 1997, 25 years ago today: The first game in the history of the Idaho Steelheads, who were making their debut in the West Coast Hockey League against the defending champion San Diego Gulls.
This Day In Sports: Bartman didn’t mean it, but…
October 14, 2003: It wasn’t a record-setting inning per se, but it was historic in baseball lore. The Chicago Cubs, leading 3-0 and cruising toward their first World Series appearance in 58 years, were five outs away in the eighth inning of Game 6 of the National League Championship Series against the Florida Marlins.
This Day In Sports: The greatest World Series walk-off of all-time
October 13, 1960: One of the all-time great World Series moments—Bill Mazeroski of the Pittsburgh Pirates hits a home run in the bottom of the ninth inning in Game 7 to beat the New York Yankees, 10-9, for the world championship.
Scott Slant Wednesday Weekly: What is up with these Broncos?
What in the world has gotten into the Boise State football team? The events of two weeks ago could have exposed a fractured locker room: an embarrassing loss, the firing of an offensive coordinator and the departure of the starting quarterback into the transfer portal.
This Day In Sports: When the roof went on the Kibbie Dome
October 11, 1975: The University of Idaho dedicates the Kibbie Dome with a game against rival Boise State. The arena had functioned as “New Idaho Stadium” since October, 1971, on the site of the old wooden Neale Stadium, which had ben destroyed by a fire two years earlier.
This Day In Sports: Pavilion hoops before the Broncos
October 10, 1982, 40 years ago today:The first basketball game ever played in the BSU Pavilion, now ExtraMile Arena, is not a Boise State game, but an NBA exhibition between the Portland Trail Blazers and Seattle Supersonics. The Blazers’ 113-109 victory drew a crowd of 8,428 to the new facility.