Eastern Washington opens the Big Sky Conference portion of its 2009 football schedule against visiting Northern Colorado on Saturday. Kickoff is set for 1:05 p.m. at Woodward Field, and we've got some links below to more information on the game.
COUGARS Well, we've finally got our information about SMU culled down to the 20 or so items we run every game day (that's why the page is called Game Day I guess). We kept getting derailed by phone calls and e-mails – and our own…
Jared Cowen, the Spokane Chiefs' star defensemen and first-round NHL draft pick of Ottawa, gets his first taste of the big time tonight in the Senators' exhibition game with Montreal. It is rumored according to The Ottawa Citizen he could be back in Spokane for…
COUGARS We spent an inordinate amount of time this morning reading. All the stories on the link? Of course we read those. But there were a lot of other headlines that made us pause, some on subjects unrelated to football and games this Saturday. In…
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