Deadspin: idaho

Hockey Players Love The Feel Of Ice On Bare Skin

Dashiell Bennett — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:00:33 EDT

A junior hockey team in Idaho was banned from the local rink after imitating their NHL idols and holding their own "strip shootout." I guess if the Tampa Bay Lightning jumped off a bridge, you would do that too? [WSOCTV]

Idaho High School Football Is A Scary, Violent Place

Dashiell Bennett — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 12:15:20 EST

I've never been to Idaho, but I always assumed it was a laid back place filled with docile potato farmers and their beautiful, but lonely daughters. As the world is slowly learning, however, nothing could be further from the truth. It's a vicious football moonscape that scars pretty boy quarterbacks for sport; where the only law is the law of the fist and even coaches aren't spared from the wrath of their own players.

Just ask Nampa High School head coach Scott Wooldridge, who was trying to break up a fight involving members of the opposing team and his own running back, Kip Ramos, when Ramos decided to call the old man out.

Police say Wooldridge was attempting to get Ramos to stop arguing with members of the Emmett High football team and get off the field when Ramos hit Wooldridge several times with closed fists, striking him in the face and causing unspecified injuries.

The good news is that even though Nampa's head coach got cold cocked and their starting running back was arrested for felony aggravated battery in the fourth quarter, they still won the game 28-16. Because you do not fuck with Idaho football, you hear? They will end you!

• "Nampa football player charged with aggravated battery, accused of attacking coach" [Idaho Statesman]
• Related: This Is Why We Can't Have Two-Way Football Players Anymore

This Is Why We Can't Have Two-Way Football Players Anymore

Dashiell Bennett — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:30:11 EDT

College and pro sports are dirty cesspools of corruption, greed, and underhanded malfeasance, but they've got nothing on the cutthroat world of high school football. Just ask Taysom Hill, a star quarterback from Highland High School in Idaho, who is committed to Stanford. Recent opponent and cross-town rival Pocatello High School was a little bit stumped on how to slow down the All-American talent coming at them on offense, but fortunately, Hill is such a good athlete (which we're guessing is a premium in Idaho) that he is also the team's place kicker. And everyone knows how easy it is to hit them ...

A player from Pocatello's return team was given one assignment on kickoff coverage—line the kicker/QB up and drill him the second the ball leaves his foot. On every single kickoff. Does this look like a standard strategy to you? I think it falls somewhere between the eighth-grade "wrong ball" trick and the no punt offense on the spectrum of questionable football tactics.

Hill is okay (I assume), Highland won anyway, and Pocatello's coach was suspended for one game. His own school investigated and not surprisingly—it's all good! So he'll be back on Friday. And that's all you need to know about Idaho high school sports. (Or sports, really.)

• High School Football Coach Suspended After His Players Cheap Shot Opposing Kicker [Fanhouse]
• Pocatello Head Coach Reinstated To Coaching Duties [KPVI]