Cushing to lead football program
JJ Bullock, Sports Editor
December 9, 2018
Northwestern’s offensive line coach Adam Cushing will be the next head football coach at Eastern. The athletic department made the announcement Sunday night that Cushing will be the program’s 25th head coach. Cushing comes to Eastern after spending 15 seasons as a part of the staff at Northwestern. ...
Brown honored to play 2 sports at Eastern
Dillan Schorfheide, Assistant Sports Editor
December 6, 2018
Filed under Basketball, Football, Sports
Fort Wayne dominated Eastern’s men’s basketball team on Nov. 28 and held Eastern to just 60 points in a 104-60 blowout victory for the Mastodons. Edwyn Brown only logged one minute in the game, which was the first minute he played this season. And he only scored one point. In the grand scheme...
Just 3 coaches remain with Eastern football
JJ Bullock, Sports Editor
December 4, 2018
It appears that an entirely new era of football is being ushered in at Eastern, as just three coaches from last season’s staff remain after the non-renewal of head coach Kim Dameron’s contract on Nov. 18. Linebackers coach Adam Gristick, cornerbacks and special teams coach Alvah Hansbro and inside...
Column: Dameron’s removal puts period on ugly season
JJ Bullock, Sports Editor
November 26, 2018
Filed under Columns, Football, Sports
With the nonrenewal of former Eastern head football coach Kim Dameron’s contract, the Eastern football team’s season was punctuated with a move that only felt fitting giving the bleakness of the team’s season as a whole. It began with a four-game losing streak, one that saw the Panthers s...
Dameron’s contract not renewed by Eastern
JJ Bullock, Sports Editor
November 25, 2018
Filed under Football, Showcase, Sports
Kim Dameron will not be returning next year as the head coach of the Eastern football team. The athletic department announced on Nov. 18 that Dameron’s contract would not be renewed, bringing an end to his five-year tenure as head coach. After a 48-41 loss to Murray State in October Dameron said, “We either got to get better ...
Eastern football team travels to Southeast Missouri for finale
JJ Bullock, Sports Editor
November 15, 2018
The Eastern football team’s final game of the season against Southeast Missouri is going to mean a lot to both teams involved, even though to the ire of both programs, there are no postseason or conference implications. The game for the Panthers is a chance to close the year with two straight wins...
Notebook: Murray State shocks Southeast Missouri late
JJ Bullock, Sports Editor
November 13, 2018
Never change, Ohio Valley Conference football … never change. How the OVC has managed to stay wildly unpredictable, crazy exciting, yet finish with the result to the season everyone knew was going to happen since August is beyond me, but that is the season we got from the conference this year. Jacksonville...
Column: Making sense of Eastern’s up, down football season
JJ Bullock, Sports Editor
November 12, 2018
The Eastern football team’s 52-21 win over Austin Peay on Saturday meant a lot, certainly more than just a tally in the win column. The win pushed Eastern to a 3-4 record in the Ohio Valley Conference, with one game left to play. What is very important about that figure is the Panthers now have...
Eastern dominates Austin Peay 52-21
JJ Bullock, Sports Editor
November 11, 2018
Everything that has been broken for the Eastern football team this season pieced itself together in seamless fashion on Saturday as the Panthers pummeled Austin Peay in what was without a doubt a game owned by Eastern from the opening kick. All of Eastern’s season-long ails disappeared against the...
Eastern football team set for final home game
JJ Bullock, Sports Editor
November 8, 2018
For its final home game of the season the Eastern football team will be hosting an Austin Peay team that, much like itself, is sitting in a spot with two games to play this season that it did not expect to be in, nor would it like to be in. Prior to this season, Austin Peay was selected to finish...
A road less traveled: How Eastern’s Dytarious Johnson went from a Michigan recruit, to one of the OVC’s best talents
JJ Bullock, Sports Editor
November 7, 2018
Filed under Football, Showcase, Sports
Eastern sophomore linebacker Dytarious Johnson’s football career was originally not supposed to happen at Eastern. The six-foot-one, 255-pound linebacking product from Alabama was tagged as a three-star recruit coming out of Prattville High School and committed to play football at the Universi...
Conference notebook: Southeast Missouri stays hot in OVC play
JJ Bullock, Sports Editor
October 30, 2018
For the first time in a long time, the seat of power of the Ohio Valley Conference may have finally shifted away from Jacksonville, Ala. When Jacksonville State fell to Southeast Missouri in week eight by a score of 37-14, the Gamecocks were dealt a humbling blow that seismically shifted the OVC and...
