Eastern Washington safety Calin Criner looked incredulous Saturday as true freshman running back Silas Perreiah told a group of reporters that he wasn’t offered a scholarship, but a preferred walk-on spot with the Eagles.
He doesn’t tweet much, but former Eastern Washington star Dario Romero’s profile picture tells a story worth each of the platform’s 280 allotted characters.
As Rogers High senior Isaak Chol used his long, impressive stride to round a series of pine trees Wednesday at Comstock Park, a group of onlookers marveled at the Sudanese-born runner and the purple-clad teammates behind him.
Jayson Williams has experienced the euphoria of two deep Football Championship Subdivision playoff runs and the pain of an underachieving, postseason-less season.
EWU’s struggling defense was carved up by Idaho’s hard-running, dink-and-dunk offense that marched to a 28-0 halftime lead, exceeding its yards-per-game average of 315 in the first half (329 yards).
Eric Barriere passed for 326 yards and three touchddowns in Eastern Washington’s 38-14 rout of the Vandals in Cheney last year, totaling 70 rushing yards and a rushing touchdown in the process.
Eastern Washington beat writer Ryan Collingwood predicts Week 4 games in the Big Sky Conference. He went 11-1 last week and has an overall record of 32-2
As much as Eastern Washington left guard Will Gram wants to darken the mood of the Kibbie Dome on Saturday when the 11th-ranked Eagles visit Idaho, it’s a special venue for the fifth-year senior.
When Eastern Washington makes the 75-mile trek to the Kibbie Dome on Saturday to face fellow Big Sky Conference member and – depending on whom you ask – rival Idaho, it won’t count in the conference standings.
Antoine Custer had reason to grimace following Eastern Washington’s gut-punching 49-44 loss at Jacksonville State on Saturday, but the senior running back smiled through the discomfort.
The fourth-ranked Eagles were held scoreless in the fourth quarter, allowing No. 17 Jacksonville State to run in late touchdown with less than a minute left to complete its 49-45 comeback victory in front of 20,000 fans.
Late-summer afternoon kickoffs in northeast Alabama are inherently hot, but a game featuring two of the country’s tradition-rich Football Championship Subdivision programs – it’s the STATS FCS Game of the Week – comes with its own heat.
When fourth-ranked EWU makes the 2,350-mile trek to Jacksonville, Alabama on Saturday to face No. 17 Jacksonville State – the STATS Football Championship Subdivision Game of the Week – it will be met by another cannon-armed talent.
Nationally ranked runners. A heap of team and individual state champions. The Spokane area’s prep cross country scene lived up to its lofty standard in 2018.
After the Eastern Washington senior broke former teammate and Los Angeles Rams receiver Cooper Kupp’s school single-game receiving record on Saturday, praise flooded the Pasco native’s phone faster than his fifth-gear feet.
North Idaho College athletic director Al Williams will retire this month, the school announced Monday, four weeks after the NIC men’s basketball program was hit with a series of sanctions by the Northwest Athletic Conference for extra student-athlete benefits and administrative oversight.