One of Aaron Best’s goals for the Eastern Washington football team this season is to run the ball more effectively with its running backs, rather than relying so much on the team’s quarterbacks to gain yards on the ground.
Eastern Washington’s football coaches already expected to be displaced from their usual football field for much of this preseason while construction crews worked to resurface the track around Roos Field.
When the Big Sky Conference convened head coaches, some assistant coaches and 26 of its football players for its annual kickoff event in late July, the league included a seminar on sports gambling among the weekend’s various events.
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.
