All but one of the 50 players on the Polynesian College Football Player Of The Year watch list are playing at the FBS level, the majority from Power 5 programs. Eastern Washington nose tackle Jay-Tee Tiuli is the lone FCS talent.
In USA Today’s annual fiscal report of NCAA Division I schools published last month, EWU ranked ranked 175th out of 230 for the 2016-2017 year. The department had $14,797,340 in total revenues and $15,753,819 in operating costs. Just over 65 percent of EWU’s revenue ($9,763,372) came from allocated sources.
Bodie Reeder, an offensive coordinator who was given the keys to Eastern Washington’s offense after head coach Beau Baldwin took the OC job at California, called the shots for a group that finished fifth in the country last season in total yards (5,244).
Few rookies are expected to carve out substantial roles this fall, but a trio of redshirt freshmen – receiver Andrew Boston, defensive end Mitchell Johnson and offensive tackle Matt Shook – have gave received plenty of first-team reps this week.
Considering the damage Eastern Washington quarterback Gage Gubrud inflicted the last two seasons, Year 3 could be nightmarish for opposing secondaries. But even if it isn’t, this much is certain: Gubrud’s decorated career in Cheney is over at season’s end. The progression of Eric Barriere is making the All-American’s impending departure an easier pill to swallow for the red-clad contingent.
Big Sky Conference preseason favorite Eastern Washington opens camp Sunday with 17 returning starters – nine on offense, eight on defense – including one of the top quarterbacks in the country in two-time Walter Payton Award finalist Gage Gubrud.
When Vernon Adams registered his fourth career start in three years Thursday for the Montreal Alouettes, one-third of the CFL’s first-string quarterbacks were pupils of ex-EWU head coach Beau Baldwin.
Twenty-six years ago, Michelle Rohl was among the first women to represent the United States in race walking at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. She still holds U.S. records in the 20-, 15- and 10-kilometer race walks, and earned a silver medal at the 1995 Pan American Games.
Hurricane Harvey and its rainfall-triggered flooding of Houston displaced thousands last year, including a decorated senior distance runner with the same namesake. Sabra Harvey, the 2017 U.S. Track and Field Masters Athlete of the Year, is still dealing with the damage.
Thursday through Sunday, the USATF Masters Outdoor Championships in Cheney will showcase around 900 athletes in 15 age divisions; 400 . have qualified for the World Masters Championships in Spain in September.
For the last 20 years, Jon Heimbigner, a Spokane men’s league regular, has assembled senior games teams loaded with former local high school and college stars, each wanting to play the game as long their body allows.
Welliver faces MMA fighter Ruben Roundstone on Friday at the Civic Center in Butte, Welliver’s first fight on U.S. soil since 2012 and his first fight overall in two years.
On Wednesday, the former Dallas Cowboy spoke on stage at Fairchild’s theater, entertaining the audience with old football stories and humorous analogies that often segued into an important message about mental health.
On Tuesday night at the historic home of Whitworth alum Frank Knott – the large, renovated structure is a 112-year-old former electric powerhouse on the bluff above Liberty Park – Joial Griffith was formally introduced as the Pirates’ new head women’s basketball coach.
The Big Sky Conference’s top players know each other in name, mostly, but on Sunday and Monday in Spokane, they fraternized at the Big Sky Football Kickoff, an annual gathering of the league’s coaches, players and media members.
The Eagles were picked first in the both the preseason Big Sky Conference coaches and media polls released Monday. It's the first time the program was first in both polls since 2014.
Storm Troopers, Ewoks and Jawas paced around the gates of Avista Stadium on Friday, each happily taking selfies with the throngs of Spokane Indians fans enjoying the club’s popular Star Wars Night.
On Monday at the DoubleTree Spokane, the Big Sky Conference’s 13 head football coaches along with 26 players will begin answering the media’s questions at 9 a.m. The interviews will be streamed on WatchBigSky.com