The Eastern Washington University Board of Trustees was presented Friday with four possibilities to stabilize its athletics budget.

Eastern Washington football coach Aaron Best has tested positive for COVID-19 and will miss the Eagles' season-opening game at Idaho on Saturday, the school announced Thursday.

 Here’s the question. Would you rather spend your days in eager anticipation of a potentially explosive offense putting up points like a pinball score? Or would you prefer to spend your nights in restful slumber, secure in the knowledge that a veteran, dominant defense can smother any opponent?

Embedded in its team statistics is information that may reflect, in a broad way, a significant reason Idaho is pressing on through a winless season.

If Ty Graham got what he wanted, the Eastern Washington linebacker would have already exhausted his eligibility. Serendipity offered an extension. 

The University of Idaho will allow a maximum of approximately 3,100 fans into its season-opening spring football game with Eastern Washington on Feb. 27. 

Portland State scored 34 points off 26 Idaho turnovers to help the Vikings pull away for an 84-64 victory Thursday in a Big Sky men’s basketball game in Portland.

Even in Eastern Washington's most glory-bathed years, Montana would find a way to spoil the occasion.

Eastern Washington and its four full-time men's basketball coaches have an average age of 33, about as long as Mark Few has been employed at neighboring Gonzaga. 

EWU is establishing itself as a brawny defensive team, too, and shutting down Montana State 85-69 on Saturday in Bozeman was the latest example.

Tarik Cool scored 14 points and grabbed four rebounds to lead Idaho State past winless Idaho 69-43 on Thursday in Pocatello.

EWU exhibited its impressive balance Thursday, taking down the resurgent Bobcats 93-77 at Worthington Arena in Bozeman, the Big Sky-leading Eagles' sixth straight win.

Weeks before Eastern Washington is slated to open their delayed, six-game spring Football Championship Subdivision season at rival Idaho, a third assistant coach has resigned. 

Idaho’s ability to hit big shots at the right time made all the difference as the Vandals pulled away from Eastern Washington in the second half Saturday for an 85-56 win in Memorial Gym.

Eastern Washington saw more of Idaho than it wanted. The Vandals were only down two, 54-52, with 13:34 to play, after 6-10 Tanner Christensen was caught out on the perimeter as the shot clock ticked down and launched a successful three-pointer for Idaho.

Idaho head coach Jon Newlee has seen plenty of double-digit leads evaporate in Cheney. 

Idaho completed an already highly regarded recruiting class by signing two in-state freshmen prospects Wednesday. They will join the Vandals next fall.

An unintended consequence of the Big Sky Conference’s COVID-motivated format of having teams play two-game sets Thursday and Saturday is better basketball on Saturday.

This is the sort of thing that can only happen in January in an indoor stadium. Idaho opened football practice Friday accompanied by a jazz ensemble rehearsing high above the football field in the Litehouse Center in the Kibbie Dome.