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Eastern Washington to host Idaho on March 13 as Big Sky releases 6-game schedule

UPDATED: Wed., Nov. 4, 2020

Half the schedule, twice the anticipation.

Sports >  EWU football

San Francisco 49ers shut down practice facility after former Eastern Washington receiver Kendrick Bourne reportedly tests positive for COVID-19

UPDATED: Wed., Nov. 4, 2020

Bourne, who went undrafted in 2017 before catching on with the 49ers, has played all eight games with four starts. He has 25 catches for 352 yards and a touchdown.

Sports >  Area sports

Local NFL roundup: Ex-Eastern Washington receivers Cooper Kupp, Kendrick Bourne reach career high in losses

UPDATED: Sun., Nov. 1, 2020

Former Eastern Washington star Cooper Kupp hauled in 11 receptions for 110 yards, but his Los Angeles Rams had trouble finding the end zone in a 28-17 road loss to the Miami Dolphins.

Sports >  EWU football

10 years after the title: Late heroics boost Eastern Washington win over Southern Utah

Sun., Nov. 1, 2020

Late, go-ahead touchdown drives involving quarterback Bo Levi Mitchell and his trusty, 6-foot-5 target – short-time NFL receiver Brandon Kaufman – were almost regular in Eastern Washington's national championship season a decade ago.

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10 years after the title: Eastern Washington leaves little doubt in first “Dam Cup” game

Sun., Oct. 25, 2020

The Eagles crushed eighth-ranked Portland State 50-17 at Hillsboro Stadium on the eve of Halloween 2010, improving to 7-2 and 6-1 in Big Sky play.

Sports >  High school sports

Injured Rays pitcher and Spokane product Andrew Kittredge rooting from afar during World Series

Sun., Oct. 25, 2020

Kittredge, a hard-throwing right-handed pitcher who prepped at Ferris, suffered a season-ending elbow injury in August and couldn't be with the Rays as they punched the organization's second ticket to the World Series.

Sports >  EWU basketball

Q&A: Talking sports with Eastern Washington interim president David May

UPDATED: Thu., Oct. 22, 2020

EWU interim president David May recently buckled a chinstrap, ran a route and proceeded to haul in a pass from All-American quarterback Eric Barriere, capping off the grab with a celebratory end zone dance.

Sports >  High school sports

Record-breaking North Central runner Allie Janke commits to defending national champ Arkansas

UPDATED: Thu., Oct. 22, 2020

Allie Janke, one of the country's most decorated high school distance runners, committed the defending NCAA national champion Razorbacks' cross country team.

Sports >  EWU football

Former Eastern Washington coordinators Bodie Reeder and Jeff Schmedding to square off in Mountain West Conference opener

UPDATED: Tue., Oct. 20, 2020

When the Mountain West begins its abbreviated football season on Saturday, Reeder's Aggies will visit Schmedding's Broncos on BSU's famed blue turf.Their friendship started on EWU's red turf.

Sports >  EWU football

Still in limbo: Eastern Washington waiting to see if it will have full-contact “fall ball” practices

UPDATED: Mon., Oct. 19, 2020

Many Big Sky Conference schools have had fall practice, but EWU, Portland State, Cal Poly, UC Davis, Sacramento State  and Idaho State have yet to buckle a chinstrap since the March shutdown.

Sports >  Area sports

Local NFL roundup: Kendrick Bourne and 49ers defeat Rams and Cooper Kupp

UPDATED: Sun., Oct. 18, 2020

Four former Eastern Washington standouts appeared in the latest edition of Sunday Night Football.

Sports >  EWU football

10 years after the title: Bo Levi Mitchell leads late drive to help Eastern Washington avoid Sacramento State upset

UPDATED: Sat., Oct. 17, 2020

Like the junior Southern Methodist transfer did several times in the Eagles' historic season, Mitchell manufactured a late, go-ahead touchdown drive to dispatch Sacramento State 28-24 in a Big Sky Conference nailbiter at Roos Field.

Sports >  EWU football

Eastern Washington, Idaho to play six-game spring conference football schedule

UPDATED: Fri., Oct. 16, 2020

Eastern Washington and Idaho will play a six-game Big Sky Conference spring football schedule that will be released in November, according to conference commissioner Tom Wistrcill. 

Sports >  EWU basketball

Eastern Washington, Idaho issued rare Big Sky Conference schedules

UPDATED: Thu., Oct. 15, 2020

The Big Sky Conference released its 2020-2021 men's and women's basketball schedules Thursday, which features teams playing two consecutive games against every school to offset the cost of travel following coronavirus-induced financial losses.

Sports >  EWU basketball

Defending Big Sky Conference champion Eastern Washington learns to adjust at first practice

UPDATED: Wed., Oct. 14, 2020

Higher than Eastern Washington's expectations was senior guard Jacob Davison's vertical leap Wednesday, the first day of the defending Big Sky Conference champion's practice.

Sports >  Area sports

NCAA Tournaments returning to Spokane Arena with men’s in 2024, women’s in 2025

UPDATED: Wed., Oct. 14, 2020

Basketball-centric Spokane was saddened by the loss of the 2020 NCAA Tournaments in March, slated for men's games at the Spokane Arena and women's games at Gonzaga if not for the nation's coronavirus shutdown.

Sports >  High school sports

Former Rogers softball standout takes swings at rare oral cancer

UPDATED: Wed., Oct. 14, 2020

At the plate, Kristi Colegrove found ways to stay alive.Now the former Rogers High softball standout is taking her swings at life-altering oral cancer.

Sports >  EWU basketball

Ex-Eastern Washington and Newport star Jake Wiley’s strange North Macedonian journey

UPDATED: Mon., Oct. 12, 2020

Thousands of miles from his north Spokane home, Jake Wiley, a former Newport and Eastern Washington basketball star currently playing in Europe, received a strange but welcome request.The subsequent journey was even more peculiar.

Sports >  EWU football

10 years after the title: Colorado natives stepped up in Eastern Washington’s win at Northern Colorado

UPDATED: Sat., Oct. 10, 2020

Many of EWU's forced turnovers were timely, including Jerry Ceja's strip of Northern Colorado quarterback Dylan Orms as the Bears attempted a game-winning drive in the final two minutes of a Big Sky Conference thriller.

Sports >  Area sports

Eastern Washington fall athletes adjusting to postponed seasons, ‘ghost town’ campus

UPDATED: Fri., Oct. 9, 2020

The memories are fond for Eastern Washington defensive end Debore'ae McClain, but reminders of a void that has warped his unusual September and October months.

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Spokane product Julianna Peña reflects on recent UFC loss on Fight Island

UPDATED: Tue., Oct. 6, 2020

Julianna Peña lay unconscious in the Octagon on Saturday at UFC 16 on ESPN, the result of a Germain de Randamie guillotine choke in the third round.

Sports >  EWU football

10 years after the title: Defense saves the day in “ugly” win over Northern Arizona

UPDATED: Sat., Oct. 3, 2020

The 13th-ranked Eagles committed five turnovers in a 21-14 Big Sky Conference win over Northern Arizona, but caused enough trouble for the Lumberjacks' offense to prevail at Roos Field in Week 6.

Sports >  EWU football

Tale of Baby Haynes: An orphaned horse, an ex-EWU athlete-turned-breeder, and an inspiring story of adoption

UPDATED: Wed., Oct. 7, 2020

Tim Floyd chronicled a similar love on his 35-acre property in south Spokane County, home to Floyd's Warlock Stables, a thoroughbred breeding and racing operation that currently houses more than 30 horses.

Sports >  Spokane Shock

A different mode: Spokane Shock running back Davonte Sapp-Lynch, brother of Marshawn Lynch, excited for 2021 season

UPDATED: Wed., Sept. 30, 2020

An older brother - ex-Seahawks great Marshawn Lynch - has aided Sapp-Spokane Shock running back Davonte Sapp-Lynch's confidence.

Sports >  EWU football

Former Eastern Washington kicker Nick Reynolds succumbs to kidney failure

UPDATED: Wed., Sept. 30, 2020

Reynolds, an ex-Cheney High standout and father of two, was 40.