Both Boise State's graduation rate and retention rate are the second best among Idaho state universities and first among the " institutions that serve larger populations of adult continuing education students ( which include a higher percentage of part-time or commuter students with dependents )".

The game was moved to the Idaho Center due to a prior scheduled Metallica concert at Boise State's Taco Bell Arena.

The Alabama Department of Postsecondary Education denied Breyer State's request for renewal of its license in June 2008 and then reported that the school had moved to Idaho.

While attending Idaho State, Sanders fell in love with Pocatellan Mary LaRue, who was then a secretary at Idaho State's athletic department.

In college athletics, it is the mascot of many schools, including the University of Louisville, the State University of New York at Plattsburgh, Ball State University, Illinois State University, Lamar University, the Catholic University of America, Wesleyan University, Wheeling Jesuit University, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, North Idaho College and Saint John Fisher College.

* The College of Idaho official athletics website

Other missionaries, mostly husband and wife teams using wagon and pack trains, established missions in the Willamette Valley, as well as various locations in the future states of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho.

Jackson progressed through the minors quickly, reporting for his first training camp with the Single-A Lewis-Clark Broncs, Lewiston, Idaho in June, 1966, having signed for $ 85, 000 ( source: " 40 Years Ago Today " in the " Lewiston Morning Tribune " June 15, 2006 ,) and playing one season for the A's Single-A teams, the Broncs and Modesto, California and one more season for their Double-A affiliate in Birmingham, Alabama.

The Pioneer League began in 1939 with six teams in Idaho and Utah.

Each fall, the varsity football teams from Idaho Falls and Skyline high schools compete in the Emotion Bowl at Idaho Falls ' Ravsten Stadium, which is shared by the two schools.

Collegiate sports in Spokane focus on the local teams such as the Gonzaga Bulldogs that compete in the West Coast Conference as well as other regional teams including the Washington State Cougars, Eastern Washington Eagles, and the Idaho Vandals.

The Baseball Museum of the Pacific Northwest pays homage to now-defunct professional baseball teams that played in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and British Columbia before the establishment of the Mariners in.

As former CBA teams, the Wizards, the Sioux Falls Skyforce and the Idaho Stampede had more experience in signing players, so they were given two affiliates each.

Two months later, the league announced that four teams from the Continental Basketball Association were joining the league: the Dakota Wizards, Sioux Falls Skyforce, Idaho Stampede, and a team originally slated for CBA expansion, the Colorado 14ers.

The College of Idaho Coyote athletic teams compete in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics ( NAIA ) and the Cascade Collegiate Conference.

* 14 September – The United States Air Force Thunderbirds flight demonstration teams No. 6 solo aircraft crashes into the tarmac at Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho, while attempting its initial maneuver at the Gunfighter Skies 2003 air show.

The teams were located in Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Nevada and Washington.

The remaining teams were joined by the expansion Idaho Steelheads ( Boise, Idaho ), Phoenix Mustangs ( Phoenix, Arizona ), Tacoma Sabercats ( Tacoma, Washington ) and Tucson Gila Monsters ( Tucson, Arizona ).

The six remaining WCHL teams ( Anchorage, Bakersfield, Fresno, Idaho, Long Beach and San Diego ), as well as a planned WCHL team in Las Vegas, Nevada, which became the Las Vegas Wranglers, joined the West and Pacific Divisions of the ECHL's National Conference.

All of the subsequent expansion teams which played in the WCHL except the Idaho Steelheads have since ceased operations as well.

However, since 2003 former WCHL teams have accounted for four Kelly Cup championships in the ECHL, Idaho in 2004 and 2007, and Alaska in 2006 and 2011.

Idaho is one of only three active ECHL teams to win multiple league championships, alongside the Toledo Walleye ( which was then known as the Storm prior to suspending operations in 2007 to build their new arena ) and the Alaska Aces, each with two.

* Idaho Vandals-the intercollegiate athletic teams of the University of Idaho

The new franchise was awarded in 1974 to begin play in 1975, but in the meantime, two NWL teams folded after the 1974 season, New Westminster, B. C., and Lewiston, Idaho.

16 different teams have won the ECHL Championship, with six ( Hampton Roads, Toledo, South Carolina, Cincinnati, Alaska and Idaho ) winning multiple times.

It established Fort Boise in 1834 ( in present-day southwestern Idaho ) to compete with the American Fort Hall, to the east.

The Idaho State University Bengals compete as a member school of the Big Sky Conference in the NCAA Division I FCS.

The College of Southern Idaho Golden Eagles compete in Region 18 of the National Junior College Athletic Association ( NJCAA ).

The only other instances in which two neighboring counties with the same name share a state border are Sabine County, Texas and Sabine Parish, Louisiana, Bristol County, Massachusetts and Bristol County, Rhode Island, Union County, Arkansas and Union Parish, Louisiana, Teton County, Wyoming and Teton County, Idaho, Big Horn County, Wyoming and Big Horn County, Montana, Park County, Wyoming and Park County, Montana, and Escambia County, Alabama and Escambia County, Florida respectively.

The conference did not sponsor football until 2001, when the league added former Big West Conference members New Mexico State and North Texas and then-independent Middle Tennessee State as full members and added independent Louisiana – Monroe and Big West member Idaho as " football only " members.

Another Big West school, Utah State, was added as a " football only " member in 2003, then departed in 2005 with Idaho and New Mexico State for the WAC.

Fruitland is named after the apple orchards that surround the community, and its slogan is " The Big Apple of Idaho.

" Big Bill " Haywood, who joined the union as a silver miner in Idaho, put the union's objections to capitalism in the simplest terms: he took the side of workers against the mine owners who " did not find the gold, they did not mine the gold, they did not mill the gold, but by some weird alchemy all the gold belonged to them!

Idaho State used to enjoy healthy rivalries with both the University of Idaho and Boise State University when all three schools were members of the Big Sky Conference.

When both Idaho and BSU left the Big Sky in 1996 to move up to Division I-A, Idaho State University lost their main rivals.

After the University of Idaho and Boise State University joined the Western Athletic Conference, Idaho State University became their main rival in the Big Sky Conference in both football and basketball.

While this definition of the Palouse remains common today, sometimes the term is used to refer to the entire wheat-growing region, including the Walla Walla Country, the Camas Prairie of Idaho, the Big Bend region of the central Columbia River Plateau, and other smaller agricultural districts such as Asotin County, Washington, and Umatilla County, Oregon.

Cities along the borders of the Palouse, in some definitions included within the Palouse region, include Lewiston, Idaho, serving the Camas Prairie farmlands, Ritzville, serving the eastern edge of the Big Bend Country, and Spokane, the major urban hub of the entire region.

By 1910, although local terms like Palouse, Walla Walla Country, Big Bend, Umatilla Country, and Camas Prairie, continued to be common, many people of the region began to regard themselves as living in the Inland Empire, the Wheat Belt, the Columbia Basin, or simply Eastern Washington, Oregon, or North Idaho.

* Lay the Mountains Low: The Flight of Nez Perce from Idaho and the Battle of the Big Hole, August 9 – 10, 1877 ( 2000 )

In 1907, shortly after being elected to the Senate, Borah served as the prosecuting attorney in the nationally publicized trial of " Big Bill " Haywood and two other labor union officials for the 1905 murder of former Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg.

* Big Trouble, 1997, a posthumously published history of a struggle between unions and mining company officials and supporters in Idaho, early in the twentieth century, after the bombing assassination of former Idaho governor Frank Steunenberg.

* Big Lost River, Idaho

* Big Falls in Waterfalls in Idaho

* Big Springs ( Idaho )