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@IdahoStatesman sports writer. @IdahoNewsGuild chair and steward. Funny last name owner. Email: mlycklama @idahostatesman .com. DMs are open.

Boise, Idaho
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Michael Lycklama
4 years
This boy is from Thunder Ridge in Idaho Falls. #idpreps
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After his mom died a few years ago, his family has struggled to pay the bills. He’s been wearing the same clothes and shoes. His classmates chipped in for his birthday, and bought him new shoes, clothes and football gear 🙏 (via porterrharris/Instagram)
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Borah senior Aden Attao caps an undefeated season with the 5A state heavyweight title, a backflip and a body slam of his coach. #idpreps @BorahAthletics
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Michael Lycklama
5 years
Just confirmed it with the man himself: @BorahAthletics point guard Ellis Magnuson has verbally committed to a full-ride scholarship offer from Eastern Washington. He's the first Division I commit in Idaho boys basketball this year. #idpreps
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6 years
Final: Idaho State hammers Idaho 62-28, first win over the Vandals since 1995. Idaho State QB Tanner Gueller throws for 492 and 8 TDs.
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Michael Lycklama
5 years
Great Boise State fan sign on the ESPN broadcast: "Vikings are just Vandals with boats."
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Michael Lycklama
3 years
Kuna School Board publicly comes out against CDH proposal to stop high school sports. “It is very difficult for us to explain to our children and our parents why bars can be open but healthy, engaging activities such as athletics and music are off-limits.” #idpreps
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Michael Lycklama
5 years
"Yelling, screaming and berating the officials humiliates your child, annoys those sitting around you, embarrasses your child’s school and is the primary reason Idaho has an alarming shortage of high school officials." #idpreps
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4 years
WHAT GOD HAVE WE ANGERED?
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Michael Lycklama
6 years
They just announced the Boise State loss here at Holt Arena. Idaho State and Idaho fans cheering together. Think I even saw some hugs.
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Michael Lycklama
8 years
Your 5A state champs - @MavsFB #idpreps
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6 years
Streaker bursts right through the Mountain View band's halftime performance, clears the fence in one leap. Mtn View scrambling the golf cart and Meridian PD cruiser in pursuit too. #idpreps
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Michael Lycklama
8 years
Pattwell now owns 11-man TD record (6) and scoring record (36) in a championship game. Doctors told him not to play
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Michael Lycklama
4 years
. @BorahAthletics with a dunk with 41 seconds left that should wrap up this state championship #idpreps
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Michael Lycklama
4 years
Dear schools, Yes, you should communicate with your parents, staff and students first. But please remember your community does not begin and end at your parent email list. Local reporters are fighting a wild amount of misinformation. We need your help in combatting it.
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Michael Lycklama
7 years
Borah rallies from 2-0 down to beat Post Falls 3-2 for 5A boys soccer state title. #idpreps
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Michael Lycklama
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Father of Cayden Wright, starting guard for Skyview basketball, is battling leukemia. You can help here: #idpreps
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Michael Lycklama
4 years
And you wonder why health districts are talking about shutting down high school sports?
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Michael Lycklama
6 years
Silent Knight, boys edition. #idpreps
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Michael Lycklama
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This @MavsFB player is way tougher than you. Despite battling chronic pain, he's the Mavs' leading receiver #idpreps
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Michael Lycklama
4 years
Boise School Board member Oppenheimer: "As a community, we had all summer to get these numbers down & to get these numbers into a safe place that we could offer in-person learning & get our kids back into school. But unfortunately, as a community, we were not able to do that."
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Centennial beats Mtn View 4-0 for the 5A girls soccer state title, becoming 1st 5A SIC girls team to win both district & state #idpreps
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0:00 4Q - Hillcrest’s Rylan Borgmann misses a tying, 27-yard field goal wide right. Bishop Kelly hangs on for 29-26 win for the 4A state title #idpreps
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This game has been moved to the mothership at ESPN. Owyhee boys basketball will face Bryce James now at 1 p.m. Sunday on ESPN. #idpreps
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Michael Lycklama
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Owyhee boys basketball will play against Bryce James, LeBron James’ son, on national television on Oct. 15. The team goes by Storm Hoopers on the club circuit. #idpreps
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Michael Lycklama
5 years
5A girls state championship: Eagle knocks off undefeated Mountain View 51-47 for its first state title in program history. Jaime McKinnie with 19 pts, 9 reb Meghan Boyd 10 pts #idpreps @eagleladyhoops @EagleStangGang
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Michael Lycklama
8 years
Potato Bowl crowd at kickoff. Akron and Utah State underway. Picture 1 this year, 2 last year.
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Michael Lycklama
5 years
Why is my landlord telling me who to vote for? And then he tops it off by taking a swipe at my employer. #idpol
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Michael Lycklama
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Dr. Steven Nemerson of St. Al's "This is a totally preventable disease, and it’s dumbfounding we’re in this situation that we’re talking about limiting our ability to deliver care to patients that need us."
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Michael Lycklama
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From chemo to a game-winning field goal, what a wild and inspirational year for @BorahAthletics Kellan McCullough. "I feel like I beat (cancer) because I’m more or less the same person. I don’t think I let it change who I am.” #idpreps @BorahFootball
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Michael Lycklama
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One of the strangest experience of the pandemic yet: Cheerleaders imploring empty bleachers that they can’t hear them and to get a little bit louder. #idpreps
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Michael Lycklama
2 years
Eagle boys basketball coach Cody Pickett will avoid open heart surgery after receiving a stent Monday. He’s back in Idaho and headed to practice when I spoke with him moments ago. He said he’s overwhelmed by the support he’s received. #idpreps
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Michael Lycklama
5 years
Nothing like a 16-hour work day to wrap up the 2018-19 high school sports season. #idpreps
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Michael Lycklama
3 years
Final: Highland 29, Eagle 27 Ian Hersey nails a 40-yard, walk-off field goal to send the Rams to the 5A state championship game. #idpreps
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Michael Lycklama
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It’s time for one of my favorite state tournament traditions: Does Madison have more coaches or players on its bench? #idpreps
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Michael Lycklama
4 years
It took Ada County 99 days to record its first 1,000 cases of the coronavirus. It only took 11 days for the second 1,000.
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Jacob Scholl
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New from @RuthBrownNews -- Boise Mayor Lauren McLean signed a public health emergency order today making face coverings mandatory in the city.
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Michael Lycklama
8 years
. @MavsGBB repeats as 5A state champions with 62-50 win over Centennial #idpreps
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Michael Lycklama
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Middleton beats Preston 47-45 in the 4A state championship, winning its first state title since 1965. #idpreps
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Michael Lycklama
2 years
5A girls basketball state championship Timberline beats Boise 36-35, rallying from four-point deficit in final 46 seconds. Lauren McCall with this steal and step back 3 with 15 seconds left to cap the comeback. #idpreps
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Michael Lycklama
4 years
Your undefeated 4A state football champ #idpreps
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Michael Lycklama
8 years
Rocky QB Thomas Perkins signals to the crowd as he's carted off and into an ambulance. Rocky 16, Timberline 7 at halftime. #idpreps
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“Austin Bolt dominated significantly more than a NBA lottery draft pick we’ve played or two future NBA draft picks we’ve played,” Post Falls coach Mike McLean said. “Austin, it was a pleasure to watch you.” #idpreps @BorahAthletics @BorahBoyshoops
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Michael Lycklama
2 years
5A baseball state championship Owyhee caps a Cinderella run with a 6-0 win over Rocky Mountain to win a title in its first season. #idpreps
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Michael Lycklama
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5A baseball state semifinal Owyhee edges No. 1 Mountain View 2-1. Mavs load the bases in bottom of 7th, but Nick McDaniels hits the inside corner for a strikeout to send the Storm to the finals in their first season. #idpreps
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Michael Lycklama
5 years
This is the most accurate tweet in the history of tweets.
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Dave Pasiak
5 years
The following fans are at every HS varsity basketball game ever played: 3 seconds guy, follow your shot guy, call it both ways guy & over the back guy. Plus a mom yelling at her kid to shoot every time her son touches the ball. And there are at least two of each at every JV game.
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Michael Lycklama
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Kickoff crowds for the Potato Bowl. In order: 2017, 2016, 2015 and 2014. (Idaho played in the 2016 game) #FIPB
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Michael Lycklama
6 years
“We’re not undefeated without @RomanoNick24 . Nick put the team on his back. Nick will never be forgotten at Rocky.” Running for 310 yards in a state championship will do that. #idpreps
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Michael Lycklama
5 years
Crowds at the Potato Bowl - a series. What a difference a team with local fans makes. 2018 - BYU vs Western Michigan
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Michael Lycklama
6 years
High school football returns in just six weeks. This guy is excited. Anybody else? #idpreps
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Michael Lycklama
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Nampa’s Nikko Gonzalez upset Eagle’s Tanner Frothinger with a 7-5 decision in sudden-death overtime in the 5A 138-pound state finals. Frothinger was going for his fourth state championship. #idpreps
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Michael Lycklama
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Props to @BSDEducation , which will now publicly publish COVID case counts by school building, as well as its communications to parents and staff. It will be updated as new information becomes available.
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Michael Lycklama
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. @BorahAthletics @austin_bolt32 is already one of Idaho's most decorated athletes of this century. Now Division I football teams are ramping up their recruitment. “He could play at the Power Five level,” a national recruiting expert said. #idpreps
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Michael Lycklama
5 years
The New Orleans Saints have signed Blackfoot High and Idaho State grad Josh Hill to a 3-year, $8.85 million extension. Starting tight end Benjamin Watson is expected to retire, meaning Hill could move into a starting role next season. #idpreps
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Michael Lycklama
2 years
IHSAA unanimously approves a first reading to use a shot clock at the 2023-24 boys and girls basketball state tournaments in all classifications. It will need to pass a second vote in June to become final. But hard to see it not passing after that vote. #idpreps
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Michael Lycklama
4 years
Congrats to @rocky_hoops senior Townsend Tripple, who will walk on next season with @BYUbasketball . The 6-8 wing planned on going on a mission to Argentina first. But the coronavirus pandemic put that on hold, and BYU invited him to join the team ASAP. #idpreps
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Michael Lycklama
5 years
That's the first playoff win in program history for Timberline. #idpreps
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Final: Timberline 19, Post Falls 7 #idpreps
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Final Timberline 60, Coeur d’Alene 58, OT Timberline’s Alex Ko hits a game-winning 3 with 6.4 seconds left, and the Wolves stave off a buzzer-beater #idpreps
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Michael Lycklama
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Boys: Centennial 25, Mtn View 24 at half. @Cen10ball Delveion Jackson with dunk & 1 right before the half #idpreps
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Michael Lycklama
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Didn't have time last night, but here's the Jordan Moran buzzer-beater that sent @Vallivue_Hoops to OT against Preston. #idpreps
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Michael Lycklama
5 years
Post Falls uniforms: White numbers on a white jersey. Madison uniforms: Red numbers on a red jersey. This is my nightmare. #idpreps
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Michael Lycklama
8 years
Dan Sabala forces OT with a 25-foot 3. Hopefully you can't hear me go "WTF" when he pulls up. #idpreps
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Michael Lycklama
9 years
Eagle softball coach battling a brain tumor woke up to moving tribute Sunday. http://t.co/ZJ4tKbJ2Hw #idpreps http://t.co/zyTfMfP9VL
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Michael Lycklama
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Moment of silence before Mountain View vs Capital football game for a longtime Mountain View secretary who died Thursday after a battle with breast cancer. #idpreps
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Pulled up photos on my big monitor and finally noticed this from Friday night. A woman brought her cat to watch the @Kuna_Football game from the parking lot. Who brings a CAT to a football game? Haha. What strange times we live in. #idpreps
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Michael Lycklama
7 years
Updated Idaho state football title standings (in IHSAA era): 1, Highland 11 2, Snake River 10 t-3, Homedale 8 t-3, Mackay 8 t-5, Madison 7 t-5, Bishop Kelly 7 t-5, Salmon River 7 t-8, Shelley 6 t-8, Carey 6 t-8, Skyline 6 #idpreps
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Michael Lycklama
4 years
Another ridiculous catch from @Kuna_Football Tyler Brown #idpreps
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Michael Lycklama
6 years
Buffalo coach Nate Oats wanted to give a shoutout to @TimbWolvesAD for letting the Bulls shoot late at night at their gym.
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Michael Lycklama
7 years
Covers 1st BK game this year. Opens email. BK COVERAGE IS OUT OF CONTROL!!! YOU ARE CLEARLY BEING PAID BY THE BK PARENTS/ILLUMINATI!!!
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Michael Lycklama
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Your 5A state baseball champions. Unbelievable season for Timberline after everything they’ve gone through. If this was a movie, you wouldn’t believe it. #idpreps
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Michael Lycklama
4 years
We will continue to report the daily numbers, even if it makes Gov. Brad Little uncomfortable. Idaho reported a new high in hospitalizations yesterday. This is important.
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Michael Lycklama
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0:37 4Q - Meridian QB Zeke Martinez scrambles to his right, then his left before finding Griffin Deere for a 16-yard touchdown. Meridian 28, Rocky Mountain 24 #idpreps
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Michael Lycklama
6 years
Congrats to the Highland defensive tackle ... #idpreps
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Tommy Togiai
6 years
Committed Go Buckeyes!!!🙏🏽
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Vallivue's Amoro Lado finishes with 29 pts, Nick Fitts with 18 and Hunter Sedillo with 10 pts and 12 rebounds. #idpreps
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