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Eagles await decision

Eastern Washington University basketball star Rodney Stuckey is expected to announce today whether he will declare for the NBA draft or return for his junior season. Although he repeatedly said he would return to EWU, he seemed to waver by the end of a disappointing season that saw the Eagles miss the Big Sky Conference playoffs for the first time in a decade.
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Eagles adapt well to changes

Eastern Washington's football team reached the midpoint of spring practice with everyone pleased and no one satisfied. "Obviously, with a new offensive coordinator and a couple changes on the coaching staff, there's some adjusting but I think for the most part it's coming together really well," veteran offensive guard Matt Alfred said Monday afternoon. "I'm really excited. We've had a solid two weeks but we have a long ways to go."
Sports

Albrecht takes tasty triumph

PASCO – As it turns out, Anna Albrecht wasn't the only area athlete to have a sweet day at the 46th Pasco Invitational track meet at Edgar Brown Stadium on a damp, breezy and cool Saturday. "Candy," the Pullman junior said after she pulled off a last-throw personal record to win the shot put. "We get candy when we PR."
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EWU basketball assistant leaves for Tacoma

Carl Howell, the top assistant for the Eastern Washington men's basketball team, has resigned to become the athletic director at Tacoma Community College. "I thought it was time for a change," said Howell, who has been at Eastern four years. "My fondest memories in athletics were at TCC. It's a special place for me. I've been very fortunate in coaching 19 years. I've thought about getting into administration and I just think it's time."
News >  Spokane

Playing it safe

On the rare occasion when Dick Cullen could break away from his duties as a teacher and soccer coach to take his wife on a date, he would hire one of his players to baby-sit. "I'd drive to get them and take them home," said Cullen, now the Mead High School athletic director. "We were very, very casual. Not anymore."
Sports

Spring in the air

The bone-chilling wind couldn't dull the enthusiasm as the Eastern Washington football team hit the field for the first spring practice Monday afternoon. Right in the mix was new offensive coordinator Todd Sturdy, who was a successful head coach at St. Ambrose University in Iowa ready for a new challenge.
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Eagles plot to change tune after disappointing 2006

Eastern Washington lost that winning feeling on the football field last fall. To make sure that feeling isn't gone, gone, gone, the Eagles have quite a laundry list of to-do things that needs to be covered in the four weeks of spring football practice that begins Monday afternoon.
Sports

Murrell resigns after five years

Sherri Murrell shocked the Cougars family Thursday afternoon by abruptly resigning as the Washington State head women's basketball coach. "It's a hard day, I love those kids," Murrell said after a hastily arranged press conference. "And the administration is the best in the country. I don't know if I have another tear left in my tear ducts."
Sports

Phoenix drafts Westerberg

The blessings just keep coming for Emily Westerberg. The former Central Valley star, who just completed her basketball career with the most successful season in Arizona State history, was selected in the WNBA draft Wednesday.
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GSL track: Shadle Park girls notch impressive win over Mead

Standing at the starting line on a surprisingly splendid Wednesday afternoon at Shadle Park, Nikki Codd at her side, Brianna Brown was worried – with good reason. She was the anchor for Shadle's 1,600-meter relay and if she could hold off one of the best runners in the Greater Spokane League, the Highlanders would have a victory in a critical season-opening showdown with Mead.
Sports >  Gonzaga athletics

Coaches predict improvement

Gonzaga's first trip to the NCAA tournament completed the grand slam for area Division I women's basketball teams. The Bulldogs finally joined Idaho (1985), Eastern Washington (1987) and Washington State (1991) on the ultimate stage.
Sports

Eastern considers future

In defense of Eastern Washington's recently completed basketball season, well, there isn't one. The Eagles, with one of the best players in Big Sky Conference history, failed to qualify for the conference tournament with a top-six finish when they expected to be in the hunt for the championship.
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Eastern names Westfall interim A.D.

Eastern Washington University president Dr. Rodolfo Arevalo promises a quick and national search for an athletic director to replace Dr. Darren Hamilton, who was fired last week. "One thing I'm thinking about is the possibility of using an external search firm," Arevalo said Tuesday. "That will make the process faster, and a search firm is able to do more background checking faster."
Sports

Experience matters

STANFORD, Calif. – In their first appearance in the NCAA tournament the Gonzaga Bulldogs played like it was their first appearance in the NCAA tournament. They were tentative in an 85-46 loss to Middle Tennessee State and shellshocked afterwards.
Sports

MTSU puts squeeze on Gonzaga

STANFORD, Calif. – Gonzaga women's basketball team finally made it to the Big Dance – and forgot its shoes. Hounded by relentless pressure and buried under an avalanche of turnovers, the 12th-seeded Bulldogs were steamrolled 85-46 by fifth-seeded and 17th-ranked Middle Tennessee Saturday night in the first round of the NCAA tournament at Stanford's Maples Pavilion.
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EWU reserved in reaction to athletic director’s firing

Reaction was subdued a day after Eastern Washington University's sudden dismissal of athletic director Darren Hamilton after just seven months on the job. "Situations like these are difficult for the university, for the department and Dr. Hamilton," associate athletic director Mike Allen said. "We all just need to move on from here."
Sports

Gonzaga women ready to go

STANFORD, Calif. – Looking for good omens, conveniently ignoring 17th-ranked Middle Tennessee State with its 26-game winning streak and All-American candidate Chrissy Givens for a moment, this place provides one for the Gonzaga women's basketball team – even if it is a stretch. When the Bulldogs men's team burst into the national spotlight back in 1999 on its way to becoming a household name in college basketball, the Zags knocked off second-seeded Stanford on their way to an improbable Elite Eight appearance and they haven't missed an NCAA tournament since.
Sports

Eagles find Sturdy position

Todd Sturdy, a successful athlete and coach at St. Ambrose University in Davenport, Iowa, is the new offensive coordinator for the Eastern Washington football team. "He brings great experience as a coach with proven success," Eagles coach Paul Wulff said Thursday. "He will be a good fit."
News >  Spokane

Eastern fires athletic director

Eastern Washington University terminated the contract of athletic director Darren Hamilton late Thursday afternoon after less than seven months on the job. "We made a mutual agreement that I would resign from Eastern," Hamilton said. "It just wasn't a good fit."
Sports

Coach continues to elevate program to new heights

Kelly Graves would rather plow a potato field than wear a tie. At least that was the case 20 years ago, when he left a job with a finance company to commit his future to coaching basketball as the men's assistant and women's head coach at Big Bend Community College in Moses Lake.
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Field has a ‘local flavor’

If the area players who make up 80 percent of the starting lineup for the Arizona State women's team are going to make it to the Final Four it's going to be quite an accomplishment. The Sun Devils were seeded third in the Greensboro, N.C., Regional, which has top-ranked Duke as the No. 1 seed.
News >  Spokane

GU women Stanford bound

Good fortune arrived Sunday, when the Gonzaga men's basketball team was sent to Sacramento, and it stayed until Monday night, when the Bulldog women got a ticket to Stanford University. The GU squad will make its first-ever appearance in the women's tournament on Saturday against Middle Tennessee State in Palo Alto, Calif.
Sports

An inside look at the Arena matchups

Spokane's second inclusion in the NCAA Men's Basketball Championship has a much more big-time feel than the inaugural version in 2003. Easily recognizable to area sports fans are Notre Dame and Southern California, Kevin Durant and Aaron Brooks, Reggie Theus and Tim Floyd – a basketball feast for those holding tickets for first-round games at the Arena on Friday.
News >  Spokane

Care to dance?

They could be headed to Los Angeles or East Lansing, Palo Alta or Hartford, Minneapolis or Raleigh, Austin or Pittsburgh; the Gonzaga women basketball players don't care. They just know they're going dancing for the first time on the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament stage.