Brian Murphy
About Brian Murphy
Brian Murphy has been with The Idaho Statesman as a sports columnist since 2005. Previously, he worked at The Macon (Ga.) Telegraph covering Georgia Tech athletics and Atlanta pro sports. He graduated from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C. with degrees in journalism and history. Contact him at bmurphy@idahostatesman.com
Boise State remains committed to Big East, according to source
Boise State has not told the Big East that it has changed its mind about joining the league in football next year, a conference official told the Statesman on Friday.
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Murphy: Ski jumper helps open a new door for female athletes
Watching the ski-jumping competition in the 1994 Winter Olympics, 9-year-old Lindsey Van asked the most obvious of questions.
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Brian Murphy: Adrenaline rush worth the risk for bull riders
This is why they do it. Why men get atop an angry bull and try to hold on for eight seconds. Why they take the risk. Why they go back for more.
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Can Big East help Boise State find home for its other sports?
Boise State has asked the Big East for help in placing its non-football programs in another league, a sign the Broncos remain committed to moving their football team to the league in 2013.
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Brian Murphy: Bet on Rousing Sermon worth a (long) shot
Bundled up on a chilly May afternoon, their Derby dresses exchanged for coats and long sleeves, they huddled around four temporary track-side televisions at Les Bois Park and crowded into the Turf Club Bar & Grill to root for the local horse in the biggest race of the year.
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Brian Murphy: WAC’s pending demise leaves Idaho without options
For 31 seasons, the Idaho Vandals football team called the Big Sky home. The results were mostly positive, especially near the end, when the Vandals claimed five titles and four runner-ups in an 11-year span before making the jump to the Football Bowl Subdivision.
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Brian Murphy: Boise State lives up to the hype in NFL Draft
Turns out the football program that won 50 games in the past four seasons had some talent, a fact that those who dismiss Boise State’s success as a byproduct of creative scheduling and poor competition and coaching wizardry always seem to leave out.
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Brian Murphy: Will pass-happy NFL undervalue Doug Martin?
Boise State’s Doug Martin is, by consensus, the second-best running back prospect in the NFL Draft. At just about any point in the last half century that would make Martin a certain first-round pick.
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Brian Murphy: Can Kellen Moore end Boise State's drought of playing time for quarterbacks in the NFL?
The odds, let’s face it, are not in Kellen Moore’s favor in his latest football endeavor — an NFL playing career.
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Brian Murphy: Robie Racers find motivation
Raliegh Jensen’s reason to run the Race to Robie Creek half marathon is as simple as the changing of the seasons.
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Brian Murphy: Disputed goal provides the difference for Steelheads
A disputed third-period goal gave the Idaho Steelheads life in their playoff series with Las Vegas. It also injected the series with a hint of controversy — and some real drama moving forward.
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