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Boise State’s spring ceramics sale May 10 to 13

Boise State’s Department of Art is offering one-of-a-kind ceramics created by faculty, students and alumni for sale at it annual Ceramics Spring Clay and Fire Sale from May 10-13. The sale will be held in the Visual Arts Center Gallery

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Timberline High DE commits to Washington football team

Don Hill, who is wrapping up his junior year at Timberline High, gave the University of Washington a verbal commitment Friday. The 6-foot-4, 235-pound defensive end also had offers from Boise State, Idaho, Washington State, Utah and Wyoming, and interest

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Boise State earns No. 45 seed overall; Gonzaga is No. 4

The NCAA Tournament selection committee seeded the field from 1 to 68. 1. Louisville 2. Kansas 3. Indiana 4. Gonzaga 5. Miami (FL) 6. Duke 7. Georgetown 8. Ohio State 9. New Mexico 10. Florida 11. Michigan St. 12. Marquette

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Boise: Fettuccine Forum continues Thursday

Boise’s free public lecture series continues Thursday, March 7, with “And the Beat Goes On: Music as a Boise Legacy,” presented by Kevin Moran. Upcoming forums also focus on Boise’s Sesquicentennial. On April 4, Brandi Burns and Rich Binsacca will

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Boise State spring football watch list: No. 1, newcomers

Boise State football, Charles Leno Jr.

With the Boise State football team set to open spring practice next Monday, I’ll use my blog this week to discuss five areas to watch — one a day, Monday-Friday. Today: Newcomers. With only 11 of 25 starters returning and

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Boiseans join in on Harlem Shake video craze – links to 10 Idaho videos

It all started Feb. 2, when a group of bored skateboarders in Australia — TheSunnyCoastSkate — posted a 30-second YouTube video clip  showing themselves dancing to an instrumental track by Brooklyn DJ Baauer, aka. Harry Rodrigues. Since then, tens of thousands

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State Board OKs naming BSU complex after Bleymaier

A $22 million football complex on the north end of Bronco Stadium will bear the name of former Boise State University athletic director Gene Bleymaier. The State Board of Education voted unanimously Thursday morning to support the naming request. The naming

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Emails: Kustra told Big East that NBC wanted Boise State football games

By Brian Murphy bmurphy@idahostatesman.com Boise State President Bob Kustra and attorney Joel Lulla, who worked for the Broncos, pressured the Big East throughout late December as the Broncos weighed offers from the Mountain West and the Big East, according to

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Boise State: ‘The Idea Of Nature’ public lecture series

The Boise State University Arts and Humanities Institute will present its second annual public lecture series titled “Interdisciplinary Explorations – The Idea of Nature,” on Feb. 14 and March 12. On Feb. 14, John Elder, professor emeritus of Middlebury College

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Andrus Center conference on ‘The State of the Presidency’ Feb. 28

Some of the nation’s most prominent presidential scholars will convene on the Boise State University campus on Thursday, Feb. 28, to participate in a daylong conference on “The State of the American Presidency.” Sponsored by the Andrus Center for Public

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