Encircled by the entire Eastern Washington football team, redshirt senior linebacker Myles Mayovsky stepped to the line – the free-throw line, that is – and lofted a basketball toward the hoop.
Eastern Washington’s football team began its preseason practices on Wednesday, and in team drills the first quarterback to take first-team snaps was redshirt junior Nate Bell.
Big Sky Commissioner Tom Wistrcill threw his support behind the Protect College Sports Act during his annual remarks on the state of the conference Monday at Northern Quest Resort & Casino in Airway Heights.
Already recognized at the national level this preseason, Eastern Washington defensive players Jaylon Jenkins and Isaiah Perez were named to the All-Big Sky Conference preseason football team announced on Sunday.
Wood was one of more than two dozen of the Big Sky Conference's best players to take the field Saturday at North Central High School, leading the 2026 Kickoff Weekend Youth Football Clinic for boys and girls between second and eighth grade.
With college football camps set to open in two weeks and the first games only a month later, preseason awards lists and teams are trickling out – and Jaylon Jenkins keeps appearing on them.
As Eastern Washington University conducted a series of graduation ceremonies on June 12 at Reese Court in Cheney, construction crews continued work on installing a new track surface at Roos Field next door.
Idaho's football team will be featured twice on ESPN in 2026, according to a release from the network Wednesday. Previously, only one Vandals regular-season game in program history had aired on ESPN's main channel.
