You asked for it! Local sports arrive at EastIdahoNews.com

We person large news that’s been a agelong clip coming.

EastIdahoNews.com now has a sports section!

Heading nan effort are Kalama Hines and Allan Steele, who are nary strangers to section sports.

You apt admit Kalama from his past 4 years arsenic a wide newsman successful Pocatello. Before moving for us, he was a sports newsman successful California. He loves playing and covering competitory sports. He is now EastIdahoNews.com’s sports director.

Allan, our sports reporter, brings astir 30 years of acquisition covering sports, and he led nan sports section astatine nan Post Register successful Idaho Falls and nan Standard Journal successful Rexburg from 2019 until he joined america past month.

In summation to 2 full-time staffers, nan EastIdahoNews.com sports squad will see freelance writers and photographers from nan Idaho Falls, Rexburg and Pocatello areas.

In a fewer days, Kalama and Allan will show you themselves astir their plans to screen sports successful our region. But they’ve already been difficult astatine activity and person spent nan past period astatine galore section games successful eastbound Idaho. Our sum frankincense acold is connected nan East Idaho Sports homepage astatine www.eastidahonews.com/sports. You tin position nan East Idaho Sports Facebook group here.

Allan Steele and Kalama Hines

What took truthful long?

Sports has been our most-requested characteristic since we launched successful 2015. We were beautiful mini backmost then, staring pinch only 2 journalists (Nate Eaton and Nate Sunderland). We quickly realized we couldn’t screen everything. Some things would person to wait.

As we’ve grown complete nan years, we’ve expanded our sum to see various features for illustration obituaries, weather, local predetermination coverage, Feel Good Friday, Secret Santa, East Idaho Eats, Looking Back and Biz Buzz.

Having sports has been a semipermanent extremity for america since nan early days. Although we could person thrown thing together years ago, we waited truthful we could do this right. Local sports are much than an afterthought for galore of you, and we wanted our sum to bespeak that. With our existent unit and capabilities, we consciousness now is nan clip for EastIdahoNews.com Sports.

And our sports squad wants to perceive from you! Whether you want to taxable photos, tips, scores aliases feedback, you tin scope them here.

We’ll spot you astatine nan game!