Presented by COMMERCIAL TIRE. This Day In Sports…January 21, 1940: The birthday of the “Golden Bear.” If the title of “Greatest Golfer of All-Time” is based on major victories, Jack Nicklaus is still on the throne. As an amateur, Nicklaus sandwiched a runner-up finish in the 1960 U.S. Open between U.S. Amateur championships in 1959…… MORE
Former Boise State/NFL coach Dirk Koetter joins Prater & The Ballgame to preview all four of this weekend’s NFL divisional playoff games – sponsored by Timberstone Golf Course ($5,000 donation) to benefit Boise State and The Horseshoe Collective (NIL). Koetter also touches on Kellen Moore and the timing of job interviews/coaching in the playoffs.… MORE
Boise State reporter B.J. Rains (BroncoNationNews.com) joins Prater and Mallory for a two-part conversation: The impact of football’s 16 new players who have early enrolled on campus, and basketball’s monster Mountain West game at New Mexico on Friday night.… MORE
Presented by ZAMZOWS. This Day In Sports…January 17, 1995, 30 years ago today: Owner Georgia Frontiere makes it official—the Los Angeles Rams are moving to St. Louis. The Rams had been a staple in Southern California since moving from Cleveland in 1946, spending the final 15 seasons playing in Anaheim. That same year, the Raiders…… MORE
Davis Koetter, who played 23 games at Boise State in the 2021-22 seasons, joins Prater and Mallory for a conversation about his post-playing coaching job at Texas (working with tight ends), what it’s like to work for Steve Sarkisian and Pete Kwiatkowski, and his quick preview of the CFP title game.… MORE
Presented by BACON BOISE. Thursday Special…January 16, 2025. Just know that it’s going to happen sooner or later. Boise State great Kellen Moore, who meets all the criteria, was passed over for the fourth time yesterday for the College Football Hall of Fame. There’s backlog of quarterbacks in the queue to get in. That’s one…… MORE
Longtime NFL reporter Ryan O’Halloran, now with The Buffalo News, joins Prater and Mallory for a conversation about former Boise State/current Bills wide receiver Khalil Shakir – and his role in Sunday’s NFL playoff game against Baltimore. O’Halloran also talks about Shakir’s future in Buffalo – and what kind of money he could expect in a new contract.… MORE
Presented by BIG BUN DRIVE-IN. Wednesday Weekly…January 15, 2025. “When we address things, they can fix ‘em,” said Boise State coach Leon Rice off the top of the KBOI postgame show. The defense got fixed Tuesday night, and the Broncos blew out Wyoming 96-55 in ExtraMile Arena. “It was a great bounce-back,” Rice added after…… MORE
Presented by BIG BUN DRIVE-IN. This Day In Sports…January 14, 1968: The Green Bay Packers win the Super Bowl for the second consecutive year, dropping the Oakland Raiders 33-14 in Super Bowl II. The game drew the first $3 million gate in football history (man, does that sound like peanuts now, or what?). Packers quarterback…… MORE
Former Boise State quarterback Jaylon Henderson (2018-19), now playing pro football in Germany, joins Prater and Mallory for a conversation about new QB coach Zak Hill. Hill returns to Boise State where he coached Henderson, Brett Rypien and Hank Bachmeier from 2016-19 – his new QB is current starter Maddux Madsen.… MORE
