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Big City Coffee owner Sarah Fendley celebrates a victory she hopes will set a First Amendment precedent despite Boise State’s plans to appeal Coffee shop owner Sarah Fendley, who argued Boise State University forced her business off campus due to her public support for law enforcement, shared with The College Fix her reaction to the trial’s $4 million verdict and her message to those in similar situations. Reflecting on the nine-day trial, Fendley (pictured) told The Fix in a phone interview she was “terrified that the truth wasn’t going to be enough.” The school “made sure every day to fill...

ELYSBURG - A Bloomsburg University student from York was killed Friday when he and another student fell down an icy cliff in Montour County. Greg Anstine was pronounced dead at the scene at 5:22 p.m. from multiple blunt force injuries, Coroner Scott Lynn said Saturday. Injured was another Bloomsburg student, Kyra Defstefano, who was admitted to Geisinger Medical Center near Danville. She has been discharged, a spokesperson said. She fell about 50 feet and was stranded part way down the cliff in Mayberry Twp. between Elysburg and the North Branch of the Susquehanna River, The News-Item in Shamokin reported. Emergency...

A Boise State professor’s comments calling independent women “medicated, meddlesome and quarrelsome” have spurred backlash in the Treasure Valley. Scott Yenor, a political science professor at Boise State University, made the comments on Oct. 31 during the National Conservatism Conference in Orlando, Florida. But the comments went viral when a Boise nurse posted a Nov. 25 video with excerpts of his speech on TikTok. “Our culture is steeped with feminism,” Yenor said during the conference. “It teaches young boys and girls that they are motivated by much the same things and want much the same things.”

Public money should never be used to support a political agenda. Yet, that’s exactly what’s happening at the University of Idaho, which decided to explicitly provide backing for the most radical elements of the controversial Black Lives Matter program. A university vice provost emailed students this week to announce the school’s “series of Black Lives Matter events” “where discussions surrounding systems of oppression will occur.” That’s what tipped me off to the fact that the school also created a website containing “ways to get involved and support the Black Lives Matter movement.” The university’s “resources” page contains more than 100...

Turns out, the Boise State Broncos are as good at granting wishes as winning football games. The Broncos and the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Idaho gave 12-year-old Stephen Kinsey of San Antonio a one-of-a-kind experience the past three days — one that took his mind off his cancer and the burglars who ransacked the family home last month. Stephen, who wanted to be a coach for a day at Boise State, spent Friday and Saturday with the Broncos. He led the team onto the field and was on the sidelines as the No. 2 Broncos whipped Hawaii 42-7 Saturday. Midway through...

New dog, old trick. Boise State University has brought back a fan favorite from the early 1990s: the football tee-retrieving dog. This year, Zamzows approached the university about sponsoring a new dog to retrieve the tees. BSU officials were all for it, as they were hoping to reinstitute the practice.

Just ask any college football coach and he'll tell you, all games are big games. OK, we'll concede that point. But some games are more intriguing than others. Here are the must-see games. Boise State vs. Virginia Tech at FedEx Field, Sept. 6. No early season game has the potential to more profoundly affect the season. The Broncos, coming off an unbeaten season, will likely start the 2010 season right around the top five. Beating the highly ranked Hokies on what can hardly be called a neutral field could make Boise State a serious threat to reach the BCS championship...

Boise State University has accepted an invitation to join the Mountain West Conference in 2011. Boise State, currently a Western Athletic Conference member, would become the Mountain West Conference's 10th member. The move would be effective July 1, 2011.

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Boise State coach Chris Petersen wants his football team to set challenging but attainable goals. This year, the Broncos set out to win a Bowl Championship Series game. And they did.Winning a national championship wasn't on the radar. That could change when the team begins preparing for 2010 later this month. The Broncos, who have won 26 of their past 27 games, will finish this season with their second Top 5 ranking in four years. And they should start next season with their first preseason Top 10 ranking. All of that was made possible by the No....

Breathe easy, Boise State fans. Texas hit a do-or-die field goal on the final play of the game Saturday night to beat Nebraska in the Big 12 championship game. The kick likely put Texas in the national championship game and Boise State in the Fiesta Bowl. If Nebraska had won, the Broncos might have gotten snubbed by the Bowl Championship Series.

WAC commissioner Karl Benson told the Idaho Statesman on Wednesday that Boise State is struggling to schedule a BCS-conference opponent for 2011 — even with the help (and exposure and money) of ESPN behind the effort. The Broncos are not asking for a return game in Boise. Just one road game. And about 10 teams have turned the Broncos down, according to Benson. "They're running into a situation where nobody will schedule them, nobody will take them," Benson told the Statesman's Chadd Cripe. The story is starting to get some national attention as ESPN.com's Bruce Feldman has begun tweeting about...

Boise State's potential to play in the Bowl Championship Series National Championship Game has quickly emerged as the theme that will define the Broncos' season. Boise State hit No. 5 in all three major college football polls Sunday - the highest regular-season ranking achieved by a team from a conference that doesn't have an automatic BCS berth since the system began in 1998. Of the four teams in front of the Broncos, at least two will lose because of head-to-head meetings. The top two teams play for the title Jan. 7 in Pasadena, Calif.

Tony Seminary is a 1996 graduate of the University of Oregon and a season ticket holder for the Ducks football team. He attended the Boise State game, and witnessed the loss to the Broncos and LeGarrette Blount’s PunchGate up close and personal. After the game, Seminary wrote an email to Chip Kelly, and did what you may have dreamt of doing after traveling to watch your team put in an embarrassing performance on the road: he asked for a refund, and attached an invoice bureaucrat-style. From the original email: I was so angry with the game (even before the post-game...

If there ever was a time for lobbying, for indignation, for rage against the machine, this was it. Having put together a sterling closing argument at the expense of conference rival Fresno State for why they deserved a spot in the Bowl Championship Series cartel, Boise State's players and coaches reserved judgment. Forget fire and brimstone, the Broncos apparently believe the meek shall inherit the Earth. "If I thought it would do one bit of good, I'd probably say something," Boise State coach Chris Petersen said. Instead, he said nothing. Boise State's 12-0 record, he insists, will have to speak...

The 2006 Boise State football season and 2007 Fiesta Bowl win was a moment Bronco fans will be talking about for generations. For many it is still fresh and it has fans saying -- "Why not a repeat performance for the 2008 Broncos?" They are off to a 6-0 start, and combined with the first BCS ranking that were released Sunday, it has Bronco nation excited about another trip to a BCS bowl game. The Broncos debuted at number 12 in the BCS, but even before the rankings were released, a representative from the Orange Bowl was in town to...

On Feb. 6 a new piece of state legislation was introduced which would further our Second Amendment right. Senate bill 1381 would allow individuals with a concealed weapons permit to carry a gun on campus. Utah is currently the only state in which the state board of education is not allowed to set rules or provisions which would be contrary to the rules set forth by state legislation concerning firearm regulation. Idaho is about to be the next. We live in a time where there is always that threat of having another Columbine, Virginia Tech or something equally horrifying, and...

BSU College Republicans present racially-charged lecture. He came. He spoke. He nearly started a riot. Approximately 200 hundred people filled the Lookout Room at the Boise State Student Union Building Tuesday evening to hear Minute Men Civil Defense Corps founder Chris Simcox speak. Simcox was invited by the Boise State College Republicans to speak about his organization and its view on securing our borders. More than half of the audience wore red shirts symbolizing their protest to Simcox' message. "We want to let him know that his hate speech is not welcome," Lucia Venegas said. Venegas, a Boise State graduate...

Citing campus shootings in other states, the university says gunshots could frighten people. Boise State University has turned down a request from veterans for a 21-gun salute on campus Monday to mark Veterans Day, saying it might scare bystanders still spooked by school shootings in other states. R.K. Williams, a Vietnam War veteran and longtime Boise State employee who runs the campus veterans services office, said he asked university officials for permission to hold the salute at noon, but they turned him down — twice. The salute would consist of seven shooters firing blanks in three volleys as part of...

Time to make everyone in SEC country mad at me. Boise St. 2007 Football Bowl Subdivision National Champions. Here is some logic for you. Florida lost to Auburn Auburn lost to Arkansas Arkansas lost to USC USC lost to Oregon State Oregon State lost to Boise State Who did Boise State lose to this season? NOBODY !! Save the argument about strength of schedule and "didn't play nobody". How many SEC teams play non-conference road games? Think any SEC teams would play Boise State (or any other non-BCS team) home and home?

Boise State wins 2007 Fiesta Bowl in OT against Big 12 Champs, Oklahoma. Amazing 4th and 18 touchdown from the fifty with a flea flicker with 7 seconds left. Amazing 4th down touchdown in OT followed by another amazing 2 point conversion to win against a very resilant and strong OU team which came back from 18 points down and took the lead with a minute and 6 minutes left in regulation. One of the most exciting and amazing College football games I have seen, next to the Miracle Bowl when BYU beat SMU 41 to 40 by scoring...