ARTICLES BY MARK NELKE CDÂA

Big Sky coaches happy to have Idaho back in league

SPOKANE — Like a long-lost brother, Idaho’s football program was welcomed back into the Big Sky Conference by several of the league’s coaches Monday at the conference’s media day at the DoubleTree by Hilton in downtown Spokane.

BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 6 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AGO

Nieman among Ron Adams' top five Jack Blair players

With the 25th annual Jack Blair Memorial Girls All-Star Basketball Classic coming up, a sports writer sought Ron Adam’s input on something.

BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 6 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AGO

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Bulldogs end season with tough one-point loss

COEUR d’ALENE — Lakeland hadn’t used the full-court press much during the season — in part because, as its coach admitted, the Hawks had been too far down for it to matter.

BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 6 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

New format this year for 4A Region 1 basketball tourney

COEUR d’ALENE — Finding the right formula for determining the lone berth to state boys and girls basketball from the three-team 4A Inland Empire League has always been a work in progress.

BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 6 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AGO

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Tough third quarter dooms Bulldogs in opener

POST FALLS — Since last season, the Post Falls Trojans have gone from ground and pound to speed kills.

BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 7 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AGO

Linehan big part of Idaho's resurgence

COEUR d’ALENE — When Scott Linehan showed up on campus at the University of Idaho in 1982, the Vandals were coming off some lean years on the football field.

BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 7 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO

Recalling the Zags as they used to be

COEUR d’ALENE — I remember checking our sports phone messages one day at the Press, back in the late 1990s.

BONNER COUNTY DAILY BEE | UPDATED 7 YEARS, 9 MONTHS AGO