Every Saturday the Illinois State defense comes out onto the field with a boom.

Did anyone notice in week one, the famous, or not so famous, Prowler the Panther?

The National Collegiate Athletic Association recently released the official graduation results for freshman who entered school in the 1996-97 academic year and Eastern ranked as the highest Division I public university in the state of Illinois.

The Eastern men's tennis team will host it's season opener with the C. Roger Sorensen Invitational on Sept. 19-20 at Darling Courts with hopes of improving on their third place finish in the Ohio Valley Conference last season.

When rugby first started back in the 1870's, there were only two positions in the game. There were the forwards and the backs. With the game's evolution each year, many things have changed.

The Chicago Cubs made their best move of the 2003 season on Monday, and no, it wasn't the release of plump reliever Antonio Alfonseca. In fact, this decision didn't even deal with a current player.

The initial question in the Ohio Valley Conference could be, is anybody not struggling at this point?

Eastern's athletics were recently recognized as the top in the OVC except for Samford, which is a private school, and second amongst Illinois public schools in overall graduation rate.

Heading into the weekend, the women's golf team faced a tough Western Illinois team as well as other top teams in the Westerwinds Classic in Macomb, while the men traveled to Normal to face several tough Midwest teams in the D.A. Weibring Intercollegiate held at University Golf Course, home to the Illinois State Redbirds.

Special teams has the word special in front of it for a reason. If it wasn't important, they would just call it the extra guys or the kicking game players.

Eastern is being more generous with the football than Panthers' head coach Bob Spoo and offensive coordinator John Carr would like.

For most of the players on Eastern's men's soccer team, practice started before they even stepped foot onto Lakeside Field.