Longtime Idaho sports journalist Mike Prater is co-host of Idaho Sports Talk on KTIK 93.1 FM The Ticket in Boise, sports columnist for the Idaho Press/Blue Turf Sports and a regular contributor to the Bronco Report Podcast. Prater previously spent 28 years as a reporter, columnist and sports editor at the Idaho Statesman. He’s worked previously at the Vallejo (Calif.) Times-Herald, the Deseret News (Utah) and the National Science Foundation (Washington D.C.). Prater is a native Idahoan who graduated from Twin Falls High School and attended the University of Utah.