The ButteCast with Bill Foley

Don McAuliffe will become the 19th member of Butte High's Diamond B's Friday night as the Bulldogs take on Missoula Hellgate at Naranche Stadium. McAuliffe only played one year of football for Butte High, but he made it count. He earned first-team All-State honors at receiver. He also played basketball and was a superstar in the hurdles. Today's podcast is brought to. you by  Leskovar...

Tim Wakefield died of brain cancer on Sunday, and it feels like I lost a close friend. Today's bonus podcast is brought to you by  Park Street Liquors . Make your story legendary. Opening music by Tim Montana. For more from the Elk Park native, go to  timmontana.com . For more from Bill Foley, go to  ButteCast.com .

In 2000, Alicia Kachmarik pitched Butte Central to the Class A State softball title not long after a line drive hit her in the face. She pitched the title game while her eye was swelling shut. More than 23 years later, it is still hard to believe that it actually happened. Today's podcast is brought to. you by  ⁠Thriftway Super Stops⁠ . Join the Thriftway Loyalty Club today and save big. Intro...

Steve Stosich is part of so many team plaques from the Butte Sports Hall of Fame that he lost count. Stosich was an undersized, but hard-nosed center and linebacker as Butte Central won the 1964 Class A State championship in football. He started three years on the gridiron for the Maroons. After playing freshman football and then wrestling at Montana State, Stosich went on to a coaching career tha...

Josh Vincent was a member of the 1991 Butte High State championship football team. He went on to a successful career with Montana Tech. He is a successful businessman and engineer, and he is a proud supporter of Montana Tech Athletics. Recently he was named a Distinguished Alumni of Montana Tech. Today's podcast is brought to. you by  Leskovar Honda , home of the 20-year, 200,000-mile warrante...

So many of my life lessons were learned from watching Seinfeld. I wish I would have listened when he said sports fans cheer for clothes. Today's bonus podcast is brought to you by  Park Street Liquors . Make your story legendary. Opening music by Tim Montana. For more from the Elk Park native, go to  timmontana.com . For more from Bill Foley, go to  ButteCast.com .

Danette Harrington served 24 years as the auditor of Butte-Silver Bow. That, though, was only a part of her service as an employee of the local government. She also grew up in the great neighborhood of the Dublin Gulch. The Gulch is now threatened as the Superfund partners are targeting for a toxic dumping round that will finish off the neighborhood. The Dublin Gulch hasn't hosted a family in...

Butte deserves the Superfund cleanup Anaconda and Missoula got. We owe it to our children and grandchildren to fight for that. We owe it to our ancestors to make sure the Dublin Gulch isn't turned into a toxic dumping site. Today's bonus podcast is brought to you by  Park Street Liquors . Make your story legendary. Opening music by Tim Montana. For more from the Elk Park native, go to  tim...

It was actually a year ago last Tuesday that the ButteCast turned a year old. It's not to late to celebrate. Today's bonus podcast is brought to you by  Park Street Liquors . Make your story legendary. Opening music by Tim Montana. For more from the Elk Park native, go to  timmontana.com . For more from Bill Foley, go to  ButteCast.com .

Evan Barrett is a Red Lodge native who came to Butte in 1979 because his boss, Sen. John Melcher, made him. Several years later, he decided to stay, even though Sen. Melcher wanted him to leave. For more than half a century, Barrett has been a man behind so many great political leaders and policy in Butte and Montana. In addition to Melcher, he worked for U.S. Congressman Pat Williams, Gov. Brian...

Before he was the team doctor for Carroll College, Dr. John Michelotti made his mark on the world as a barber. During the 1985-86 basketball season, he gave Butte High teammate Bart Black his famous mohawk. Michelotti was a quarterback who sometimes played receiver for Butte High. He took third at State in the 800-meter race, and he won the prestigious Harry "Swede" Dahlberg Award as the...

Manuel Herrera passed away last week at the age of 75. Manny, as his friends call him, will be sorely missed. Today's bonus podcast is brought to you by  Park Street Liquors . Make your story legendary. Opening music by Tim Montana. For more from the Elk Park native, go to  timmontana.com . For more from Bill Foley, go to  ButteCast.com .

Barry Brophy, Mike Haggerty, Greg Markovich, Jerry “Buzz” Combo and Brian “Moose” Holland were the five senior offensive linemen for the 1973 Butte Central football team. That year, the Maroons went 10-0 as they ran the school's winning streak to 28 games and gave the school its third straight Class A State championship. Today's podcast is brought to. you by  Leskovar Honda , home of the 2...

Listen in as former Butte High athlete and coach Kevin Petritz opens up about his battles with depression and addiction. KP was an outstanding soccer player for Butte High. He was also a contributor for a boys' basketball team that, in 2011, came within two points of a berth in the Class AA State tournament. He coached soccer at MSU-Billings, where he also played, Butte High and Great Falls Hi...

If you are fighting with the guys on the Montana AA Prep Football page on Facebook, then you already lost. If they block you, though, consider that a win. Today's bonus podcast is brought to you by  Park Street Liquors . Make your story legendary. Opening music by Tim Montana. For more from the Elk Park native, go to  timmontana.com . For more from Bill Foley, go to  ButteCast.com .

Robert Leipheimer is a 2018 graduate of Butte High School. He also earned a degree form Montana State University. He went from a 230-pound offensive lineman for the Bulldogs to a 165-pound Spartan Race champion. The soon-to-be 24-year old Butte man is the reigning North American champion. He will compete in the world completion again later this year. Today's podcast is brought to you by  Casag...

It's been more than 33 years since Curtis Smith played basketball for Butte High School. He is still mentioned all the time because he is one of the best players to ever suit up for the Bulldogs. He passed like Magic Johnson, though he'd rather you say it was like Larry Bird. Either way, Curtis was great. He played on Butte High's 1989 and 1990 teams, and the Bulldogs only lost three g...

Greg "Peach" Leetz has been my friend for as long as I can remember. He is a veteran of the Northwest Little League, where he led the world in unnecessary Pete Rose slides, and the Navy. He graduated from Butte High and Montana Tech. He is in town to watch the Montana Tech-Carroll College football game Thursday night at Alumni Coliseum. Yesterday, I saw him in person for the first time i...

The EPA is finally promising us some transparency when it comes to the cleanup of more than a century worth of mine waste in Butte. So far, we know the promises from the EPA have been as real as Butte's best ghost story. Today's bonus podcast is brought to you by  Park Street Liquors . Make your story legendary. Opening music by Tim Montana. For more from the Elk Park native, go to  timmon...

Paul Panisko has a new gig at Montana Tech. That comes after 30 years on the radio, most of it at KBOW. He called football, basketball and softball games for most of those years, and he is as good as it gets. Montana Tech fans will be able to hear Panisko call home football and basketball games on the Orediggers' YouTube channel. Go to godiggers.com to find links to check them out. Today's...

Tawnya Murray is a recovering addict who knows how methamphetamine can ruin a life. She knows what it is like to live on the streets, and she knows what it is like to lose everything, including her two children. Today, Tawnya is doing well, and she is looking to help others. Her story is one you do not want to miss. Today's podcast is brought to you by  Casagranda's Steakhouse . Eat where...

Jon McElroy won 118 games in 18 seasons as head football coach at Butte High School. Before that, he was a standout athlete and an All-State receiver on Butte High's 1964 state championship team. He played at Montana State before becoming a coach and teacher at his alma mater. Coach Mac was also the best chemistry teacher this side of Walter White. Today's podcast is presented by  ⁠Lone Pe...

The stone walls around Leonard Field are crumbling, and the school is repairing them with what one Montana Tech alumnus called "modern trash." Where is the outrage from the historic preservation people? Today's bonus podcast is brought to you by  Park Street Liquors . Make your story legendary. Opening music by Tim Montana. For more from the Elk Park native, go to  timmontana.com . F...

Brian Michelotti is the fifth executive director of the Montana High School Association. Before that, he was a Carroll College Fighting Saint, a Butte High Bulldog, a West Junior High Buffalo and a McKinley Viking. Listen in as he talks about growing up in Butte, cheering for his sons as they play football for his former rival Montana Tech and some plans he has moving forward with the MHSA. Today&...

Matt Buckley was a teacher and a coach. He is a writer, poet, realtor and a cowboy. He was also one of the great Mining City athletes in his day. Buckley was part of Butte Central's back-to-back-to-back title run in football from 1971 through 1973. He received postseason honors on both sides of the ball at Carroll College. He was a 210-pound All-American defensive tackle for the Saints and an...