Larry Weir also stays busy broadcasting prep contests and minor-league baseball games, but it’s the more than 1,300 EWU contests that have buttressed his legacy.
At the Big Sky football meetings last month in Airway Heights, league commissioner Tom Wistrcill stood in front of the collected players, coaches and media to give his annual state of the league address, a tradition for league commissioners across the country.
FOXBORO — It wasn’t Efton Chism’s hands or quickness that stood out to Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel after Friday night’s 48-18 preseason win over the Commanders. It was, somewhat ironically, the undersized slot receiver’s play strength.
By wearing No. 4, Perez is the de facto leader of an Eagles defense that is looking to elevate its play this season after finishing at or near the Big Sky’s bottom in many statistical categories the last three seasons.
With a week’s worth of practices in the books this summer for the Eastern Washington football team, head coach Aaron Best has seen enough to declare that he wants to hear more out of one particular group: the offensive linemen.
Through 55 summers, falls, springs and winters, a ring sat on the Tekoa (Washington) Elementary School grounds, relatively undisturbed, just a couple of inches below the surface of the ground.
Over the last couple of years, the FBS conferences of the West have seen their membership change significantly as leagues cannibalized each other across the college football landscape.
Three Eastern Washington players and three from Idaho were named to the Big Sky Football Preseason All-Conference Team, announced Sunday as part of the league’s kickoff weekend at Northern Quest Resort and Casino in Airway Heights.
It’s almost a little too on the nose that the New England Patriots’ player -stealing headlines and turning heads in the offseason is an unheralded, undersized slot receiver from a small school.
