During Eastern Washington’s run to the NCAA Tournament last season, Steele Venters appeared in 17 games and scored 61 points.

No Eastern Washington University football team has ever gotten to seven wins any faster.

Quarterback Tommy Mellott ran for his third touchdown with 2:16 remaining and Montana State held off Idaho for a 20-13 victory on Saturday in a key Big Sky Conference matchup.

The Eastern Washington Eagles are still looking for an eighth win this season, which is something of a benchmark for reaching the 24-team FCS playoffs.

It might surprise fans of Gonzaga women’s basketball, but the Zags have lost more than they’ve won against Montana.

Boosted by three victories over Football Bowl Subdivision teams toward the start of the season, the Big Sky’s top teams are highly concentrated at the top of the FCS rankings.

It was a little weird, Calin Criner admitted, to take to Roos Field last weekend without linebacker Jack Sendelbach, on senior day, no less.

When Ty Graham and his teammates convened Sunday to watch film and transition into preparations for Eastern Washington’s next opponent, he saw disappointment on the faces around him.

For an inaugural game this will do.

This is why Cierra Walker and Yvonne Ejim came to Gonzaga in the first place.

For the fourth time in five seasons, the 18th-ranked Washington State Cougars are going dancing.

While Eastern Washington won the turnover battle against Montana State, an edge in explosive plays more than compensated for the Bobcats in their 23-20 victory Saturday at Roos Field.

He should probably just go ahead and graduate. It will never get better than this.

It's the same sort of minidrama that plays out upon the giant bloodstain of Roos Field for opponents of the Eastern Washington Eagles. Do you win by getting Eric Barriere off the field? Or by keeping him off?

Similar to what happened two weeks ago, on Saturday a defense – in this case, Montana State’s – demonstrated that the Eagles can indeed be held in check offensively, and that it can even be done on Eastern’s home red turf.

Perhaps no college basketball coach in the Pacific Northwest faces a bigger rebuilding job than Joddie Gleason at Eastern Washington.

Football is X’s and O’s but also irony. As Idaho’s disappointing (2-6, 1-4 Big Sky) season winds down to its final three weeks, a pair of transfer wide receivers are finishing strong for the Vandals.

Coming off Eastern Washington’s only loss so far this season, Debore’ae McClain used extra time available during the bye week to relax, get ahead on his school work and rest his body after playing eight straight weekends.

Even as three of the Big Sky’s top football teams sat idle, the conference’s status in the polls improved this week as it now heads into its final three weekends of the regular season.