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Former Cowboy offers rebuttal to whitewash0
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- January 25, 2022
Brian Reed did something I never had the guts to do. He wrote a rebuttal to an obituary. It was not something Reed did because he was vengeful or bitter. He did it because the front-page obituary of Jack Raymond in the Jan. 7 edition of The Miles City Star was grossly incomplete. The banner
READ MOREAll these years later, my money is still on Gary Kane2
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- January 18, 2022
Every ear in the classroom was focused on the radio in Mr. Brophy’s room. All the boys, and some girls, huddled around the history teacher’s desk on the top floor of Butte Central Jr. High, which used to be the St. Patrick’s Grade School. It was Thursday, March 2, 1989, and the Butte High Bulldogs
READ MOREToone and Riley will tell you Brett Favre was right0
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- January 11, 2022
The great philosopher Brett Favre gave Montana State football players sound advice leading up to Saturday’s FCS national championship football game in Frisco, Texas. In a Cameo video, the former New York Jets quarterback told the Bobcats to enjoy the moment before ticking off some names of players, including Tommy Mellott of Butte and Troy
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Thinking of Pat Kearney as Bobcats head to title game1
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- January 4, 2022
Butte Central pulled out a 21-20 victory over Belgrade on a rainy September night in 2005 in Belgrade. Jake Stagnoli hit Shaughn McKeon for a 16-yard touchdown pass with 22 seconds left to tie the game at 20 with 22 seconds left to play. Sophomore Matt Ritter lined up to kick the extra point, and
READ MOREChris O’Connor’s return to Ironman is 2021’s top story2
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- December 28, 2021
The top Butte sports story of the year came as a complete surprise. No, it was not Tommy Mania taking over Montana after the Bobcats inserted Tommy Mellott into the starting lineup — even after the former Butte High Bulldog led Montana State to its first national championship game in 37 years. That might have
READ MOREHere’s to the great ones that we overlook2
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- December 21, 2021
About 20 years after the 1984 Butte High boys’ basketball team brought home the school’s last Class AA state title, I was given a disk of the championship game. I rushed home to pop it into the DVD player so I could relive the days of the great Micky Tuttle and Chris Rasmussen. They were
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