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After wrapping up spring practices, the Eastern Washington football team is now closer to the next season than it is from the last, and head coach Aaron Best had the next phase on his mind Friday after the Red-White Game.

Staked to a 31-point lead in the annual Red-White spring football game, the Eastern Washington defense held its own Friday at Roos Field.

It’s going to be more than three months until the Eastern Washington football team reconvenes for practices this summer, so the film that comes from Friday night’s Red-White Game is going to linger for a while.

Eric Barriere has never been to Canada, but he’s about to give it a go. The former Walter Payton Award winner out of Eastern Washington University signed in January to play with the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the Canadian Football League, adding to the growing list of former Eagle quarterbacks to join the league.

It is early April, and unsurprisingly, Eric Sanders has lost his voice.

On a foggy day last November, Darrien Sampson was recognized among 12 Eastern Washington football players who were about to play their last college football game.

It is customary for football coaches to hold end-of-the-season, one-on-one meetings with players, and Eastern Washington head coach Aaron Best holds to this custom.

MOSCOW, Idaho – Because Washington State’s air-supported “bubble” practice facility is no more and the Taylor Sports Complex that will replace it is so far a skeleton of structural steel and a dream, WSU combined its NFL pro day with the nearby University of Idaho Wednesday at the Kibbie Dome and adjacent weight room.

Eastern Washington will begin its spring football practices with two this week – Monday and Wednesday – before ramping up toward the annual Red-White Game later in April.

Kendrick Bourne said he’ll be ready for training camp and Week 1 after knee surgery and rehabilitation.

Eastern Washington bolstered its line and its fleet of wide receivers with the signing of five more football recruits on Wednesday.