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Interstate co-op paying off big for Mullan, Idaho and St. Regis, Montana

UPDATED: Wed., Sept. 30, 2020

Jesse Allan didn’t need a commercial drivers license to haul a half-dozen football players on a daily, 40-mile Interstate 90 commute with winding roads and a mountain pass that drops into rural North Idaho.

Sports >  EWU football

10 years after the title: Second-half surge lifted shorthanded Eagles at Weber State

Sun., Sept. 27, 2020

Weber State, one of the subdivision's best 6-5 teams that season, was a worthy adversary in 2010. For about three quarters, anyway.

Sports >  EWU football

Big Sky Conference athletic directors aiming for October release of spring football schedules

UPDATED: Sat., Sept. 26, 2020

Eastern Washington athletic director Lynn Hickey was supposed to be in the muggy Gainesville, Florida, heat as the Eagles opened their 2020 campaign at the University of Florida, a guarantee game that would have been a much-needed $750,000 boost for a school with its share of financial maladies.

Sports >  EWU football

REDistribution: EWU raised $120,000 in selling pieces of original red turf

UPDATED: Wed., Sept. 23, 2020

When the opportunity to take home a piece of Eastern Washington's famed red turf began to take shape, hundreds reached for their wallets as quickly as Taiwan Jones streaked up the Roos Field sidelines in the weeks following its 2010 installation.

Sports >  EWU football

Football Championship Subdivision playoffs to begin in April

UPDATED: Tue., Sept. 22, 2020

The NCAA Division I Board of Directors approved plans Tuesday for a FCS playoff schedule and format set to begin begin April 24.

Sports >  EWU basketball

Birds of Pay: With his recent $48 million contract extension, Cooper Kupp joins an exclusive group of big-money Eastern Washington alums

UPDATED: Tue., Sept. 22, 2020

Few ex-Eastern Washington stars have have earned millions a year, but the list is growing.

Sports >  EWU football

10 years after the title: Week 4 loss at Montana State humbled Eastern Washington

Sun., Sept. 20, 2020

Before EWU went on its historic national championship run in 2010, the Eagles hit a major speedbump in Bozeman, Montana.

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From jerseys to badges: Dozens of ex-college, pro athletes find careers in Spokane law enforcement

UPDATED: Sun., Sept. 20, 2020

More than two-dozen Spokane Police Department and Spokane County Sheriff's Office employees competed collegiality in several sports and believe their those experiences have helped in different areas of their careers.

Sports >  High school sports

Post Falls coach Blaine Bennett uses big-time college experience to boost Trojans

UPDATED: Thu., Sept. 17, 2020

Like the defenses high-scoring Post Falls has split in Blaine Bennett's five seasons as head coach, he separates his long and assorted career into two distinct chapters.

Sports >  EWU basketball

Eastern Washington hires outside firm to review athletic department’s budget problems

UPDATED: Wed., Sept. 16, 2020

Eastern Washington has hired an outside consultant to take a deep scope at the athletic department’s well-documented financial woes in an effort to develop solutions.

Sports >  Gonzaga athletics

Former Gonzaga standout and Houston Astros rookie Taylor Jones enjoys brief stay with big-league club

UPDATED: Mon., Sept. 14, 2020

Petco Park was relatively quiet, but the crack of Houston Astros rookie Taylor Jones’ bat was piercing.

Sports >  EWU football

10 years after the title: Eastern Washington christened red turf by taking down national power, rival Montana

UPDATED: Sun., Sept. 13, 2020

When EWU faced then-national power and rival Montana in 2010, it was the first game of the red turf era. Here's a look back at the historic game.

Sports >  EWU football

Season recap: Former local players get airtime in season finale of HBO’s ‘Hard Knocks’

UPDATED: Sun., Sept. 13, 2020

Few faces from area college football programs saw much camera time in HBO’s popular NFL docuseries “Hard Knocks,” which concluded its 15th season on Tuesday.

Sports >  High school sports

Shadle Park graduate and pro runner Nick Hauger may have set U.S. record

UPDATED: Tue., Sept. 8, 2020

Nick Hauger, a former University of Portland cross country standout who is now a member of the Flagstaff, Arizona-based professional running team NAZ Elite, posted a 10-mile time of 48 minutes, 55 seconds to run away with a win in California hosted by the team's sponsor, Hoka One.

Sports >  Area sports

Ex-Mt. Spokane pitcher Drew Rasmussen earns big-league innings in Milwaukee

Mon., Sept. 7, 2020

Milwaukee Brewers rookie and former Mt. Spokane star Drew Rasmussen's Major League debut was as strange as it was prosperous.

Sports >  EWU football

10 years after the title: Central Washington gave Eastern Washington all it could handle in Seattle

Sun., Sept. 6, 2020

In the years following Eastern Washington’s lone national title, the Eagles were a thorn in the Pac-12 North’s side.

Sports >  EWU football

Former Eastern Washington star Vernon Adams opts out of CFL contract to pursue NFL

UPDATED: Sun., Aug. 30, 2020

Former Eastern Washington quarterback Vernon Adams said he plans to opt out of his Canadian Football League contract in hopes of landing a spot on an NFL roster this fall.

Sports >  EWU football

10 years after the title: Colin Kaepernick, talented Nevada too much for Eastern Washington in opener

UPDATED: Sat., Aug. 29, 2020

A Thursday night season opener in Reno, Nevada in 2010 paired two eventual overachievers,  with several future NFL draft picks, including one of the game's most controversial figures.

Sports >  High school sports

Colton’s merger with Genesee, Idaho, lets six Washington students play football this fall

UPDATED: Fri., Aug. 28, 2020

Colton's across-border football move to play this fall holds statewide significance amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Sports >  EWU football

No fall season, but Eastern Washington football ranked No. 18 in STATS preseason poll

UPDATED: Tue., Aug. 25, 2020

The overwhelming majority of Football Championship Subdivision football schools aren’t pursuing a fall season.

Sports >  EWU football

An oral history: That August day, in 2014, when college football started in Cheney

UPDATED: Sun., Aug. 23, 2020

EWU hosted fellow FCS power and postseason nemesis Sam Houston State on Aug. 23, 2014, an ESPN broadcast that was the only game on television that Saturday, a week before the overwhelming majority of NCAA football teams began their seasons. 

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Knockout in Mexico: Spokane native Patrick Ferguson earns pro boxing win during pandemic

UPDATED: Thu., Aug. 20, 2020

Professional boxing matches are rare spectacles in pandemic time, but Spokane native Patrick Ferguson found a way into the ring. 

Sports >  Area sports

All Northwest Conference games, meets suspended until 2021

UPDATED: Wed., Aug. 19, 2020

If any sports are being played at Whitworth between now and January, it won't be Northwest Conference competition.

Sports >  EWU football

Six ex-Eastern Washington stars affected by cancellation of CFL season

UPDATED: Tue., Aug. 18, 2020

The CFL announced Monday that it won't pursue a 2020 season, citing major financial losses if it pursued games without fans due to the country's strict social distancing mandates.

Sports >  EWU basketball

Eastern Washington stung by loss of Pac-12 nonconference games

UPDATED: Mon., Aug. 17, 2020

It’s been five months since young, high-scoring Eastern Washington experienced the initial sting of a canceled NCAA Tournament.