WAC Football News

The Aggies will join the MWC on July 1 and Utah State's athletic director Scott Barnes couldn't be happier.

After a surprising run to win the Western Athletic Conference tournament title last season that earned it a bid to the NCAA tournament, Idaho has been selected to participate in the 2013 Preseason Women's National Invitation Tournament in November.

The University of Nevada, Reno and Wolf Pack Athletics will honor the contributions that former football head coach Chris Ault has made to the athletics program by naming the field at Mackay Stadium after the College Hall of Fame inductee.

The Wolf Pack announced Tuesday that the field at Mackay Stadium will now be named after its former head coach who retired last December.

Pitcher Braden Shipley and outfielder Brooks Klein are the Nevada Wolf Pack 's lone representatives on this year's Mountain West baseball teams.

Mike Marboe, Idaho's junior center from Wenatchee, Wash., is a member of the Rimington Award Watch List for the second season in a row.

Doubters said Peyton Manning couldn't win a Super Bowl. Eventually, he did. Skeptics thought LeBron James would never win an NBA title.

The Nevada Wolf Pack will play in its first Mountain West baseball tournament starting Wednesday night against the host Fresno State Bulldogs.

The UTSA Roadrunners capped the regular season in style Saturday afternoon, beating Louisiana Tech 3-2 and completing their second consecutive weekend sweep.

Freshman Brock Hartson pitched into the ninth inning Thursday night as the UTSA Roadrunners scored a 4-0 victory over the Louisiana Tech Bulldogs.

Fresno State Director of Athletics Thomas Boeh withdrew his name from the Rutgers University search for a new athletics director Sunday morning.

The New Mexico State softball team fell in the semifinal game of the 2013 Western Athletic Conference Tournament on Friday afternoon to the San Jose State Spartans 3-1. The Aggies play an elimination game against either Texas-Arlington or Texas State at 6 p.m. this evening.

Coach Amanda Lehotak's fifth-seeded Roadrunners bowed out of the Western Athletic Conference tournament with a 1-2 record in games covering three days on the Louisiana Tech University campus.

Former University of Idaho football coach Robb Akey has confirmed to SWX that he has filed a lawsuit against the university.

Nevada Wolf Pack pitcher Braden Shipley has been named as one of 60 collegiate baseball players on the Golden Spikes Award watch list.

Ryan Walker, Darien McLemore and Travis Sibley each had four hits for the UT Arlington Mavericks, who rallied twice from multiple-run deficits to beat the New Mexico State Aggies 13-11 on Sunday at Presley Askew Field.

Nevada Wolf Pack safety Duke Williams was selected by the Buffalo Bills with the 105th pick, the No.

Defensive backs and tight ends have been who the NFL has been plucking from Mountain West -- or future Mountain West in this case -- in the 2013 NFL Draft.

The New Mexico State Aggies kept their winning ways going with an 8-0 win over Seattle University on Friday at the NMSU Softball Complex.

Utah State softball is set to open a weekend Western Athletic Conference series at UT Arlington on Friday, April 26, with a single game at 4 p.m. MT.