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Wilkins Speedway [read this free]

Posted on December 1, 2021 by Michael Vogt / Comments Off on Wilkins Speedway [read this free]

A Lot of Cars Totaled By Michael Vogt Photos Courtesy of Michael Vogt The author, who compiled an oral history of a horse racing track near Caldwell in the 1940s (“Sage Acres,” IDAHO magazine, January 2021) now does
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On Track

Posted on May 1, 2021 by Judy Felton / Comments Off on On Track

Power-Walking through the Pandemic By Judy Felton Many years ago, a very wise Buhl School Board made the decision to invest in building an athletics track. It soon became known as one of the best in southern Idaho
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When Baseball Was Legion

Posted on February 1, 2021 by Mike Blackbird / Comments Off on When Baseball Was Legion

More Than Just a Game By Mike Blackbird It was the bottom of the last inning in a seven-inning American Legion baseball game and our visiting Kellogg team led by one run—but St. Maries had the bases loaded
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Sage Acres

Posted on January 1, 2021 by Michael Vogt / Comments Off on Sage Acres

A Farmers’ Racetrack By Michael Vogt Photos Courtesy of Michael Vogt About a mile west of Farmway Road on Homedale Road near Huston—a farming community outside Caldwell that once was a center of Canyon County commerce—stood a racetrack
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Selecting In

Posted on November 1, 2020 by Kimberly Shepard / Comments Off on Selecting In

The Key to a 30K Trail Run By Kimberly Shepard Sometimes you don’t know how you feel about an experience until it’s over. Take a novel, for example: the beginning may have you rolling your eyes and questioning
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The Rival

Posted on September 1, 2020 by Max Jenkins / Comments Off on The Rival

Good at Everything Story and photos by Max Jenkins “They’re a fantastic dance team,” people kept saying. I wasn’t the jealous type, but it was hard not to be a little worried. This was in the 1950s at
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Shaken and Stirred

Posted on September 1, 2020 by Bob Abrams / Comments Off on Shaken and Stirred

Motocross As Character-Builder Story and photos by Bob Abrams During round one of the Owyhee Motorcycle Club (OMC) summer motocross series in Garden City last June, I was in the right place at the right time. I was
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Mind vs. Matter

Posted on July 1, 2020 by Lance Pounds / Comments Off on Mind vs. Matter

Challenged Athletes in the Wild By Lance Pounds Photos Courtesy of Challenged Athletes Idaho Foundation After I moved back to Idaho from Portland to start my own solo legal practice in 2018, I played tour guide for my
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The Idaho Regatta

Posted on May 1, 2020 by Scott Kunau / Comments Off on The Idaho Regatta

Lured Back by the Roar Story and Photos by Scott Kunau “You!” Ron “Mad Dog” Bolton barked at me during the Idaho Regatta’s Friday night test-and-tune in 1981. “Borrow that helmet and that racing life jacket, and come
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Smooth As Gravel

Posted on July 1, 2019 by Aaron Theisen / Comments Off on Smooth As Gravel

Counter-Revolution in Valley County Story and Photos by Aaron Theisen A dirty secret about us outdoors writers, especially in the spread-out West, is we spend a lot of time staring out the window. I drive some twenty thousand
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