The Eastern volleyball team will travel to Milwaukee, Wis. for the Panther Invitational in what promises to be an interesting weekend.

The Eastern women's soccer team will try to rebound this weekend after a tie to Indiana State as they welcome Eastern Michigan to Lakeside Field for their 1 p.m. Sunday meeting.

Both men's and women's cross country teams will be heading to Peoria Friday to battle out a large field of competition. On the women's side, 21 teams will be competing and on the men's, 19 teams.

The Missouri Tigers will step on to the renovated field turf surface at Faurot Field Saturday and attempt to earn its first 3-0 start since 1981.

On Sept. 11, 2001, the world as we know it was changed. September 11 made us realize we are not untouchable. Because of Sept. 11, terrorism is no longer a foreign thought. We know it can happen on our own turf.

Eastern almost waited too long to get back into its game with Indiana State yesterday at Lakeside Field.

The Ohio Valley Conference is very interested in soon becoming one of the largest basketball conference in Division 1-AA athletics.

Losing and attempting to replace a star athlete of a team in any sport is a difficult task.

Eastern Kentucky players took three of the four Ohio Valley Conference weekly honors for their efforts in a 35-7 rout of No. 11 Appalachian State Saturday.

Sept. 6, 2003 should be officially renamed "Upset Saturday" in 1-AA football because several teams caught the surprise flu. In fact, it proved that unlike past years, 30-35 teams could hold the 1-AA trophy up in Chattanooga this season.

The objective for Eastern's defense will be to resist playing an elaborate game of tag with Big 12 conference first-team quarterback Brad Smith.

Sunday Eastern looked to extend its dominance over the Northern Illinois Huskies. Eastern won last year's season opener against Northern Illinois 3-1 and has not lost against the Huskies in Charleston since 1977.