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The Daily Eastern News

The student news site of Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Illinois.

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Zaria Flippin

COLUMN: Top 10 EIU athletics moments in the 2024-2025 season

Zaria Flippin, Sports Editor May 7, 2025

Wow. It’s been a year full of EIU athletics. From football’s performance against Indiana State to the women’s basketball 100-point game against Morehead State, here are my top 10 moments from the...

Patrick Schmitz

COLUMN: Bring back region-based conferences

Patrick Schmitz, Associate Photo Editor April 29, 2025

The National Collegiate Athletic Association is an ever-changing landscape. It recently changed last year when the Pac-12 Conference got dismantled and conferences became less regional.   Conferences...

Patrick Schmitz

COLUMN: Wrestling should focus more on matches

Patrick Schmitz, Associate Photo Editor April 12, 2025

Despite what many believe, professional wrestling is a sport.   The most important part of a sport is athletics, which is why I believe that the athletic and wrestling portion of professional wrestling...

Cameron Thomas

COLUMN: Why the NBA ratings are down

Cameron Thomas, Sports Reporter March 2, 2025

The overall game of basketball has nothing to do with the NBA ratings going down this season. If you scroll on any social media platform with the ratings topic, you will see many people talking about...

Zaria Flippin, senior, sports media relations

COLUMN: Start paying student athletes to help them live

Zaria Flippin, Sports Editor November 13, 2024

With the evolution of name, image and likeness, college athletes across the nation are getting paid for their popularity within their respective sport. While I believe NIL is a good thing, this isn’t...

Chloe Proffitt

COLUMN: Female athletes are just as capable as male

Chloe Proffitt, Sports Reporter March 25, 2024

My whole life I have done sports.  Sports have the power to inspire and change, especially when it comes to women. There are so many women in sports, whether it’s in the media or on the field, court...

Following an investigation, the men's swim team is suspended for the fall semester.

COLUMN: EIU should move on from swim program

Gabe Newman, Sports Reporter March 2, 2024

It’s time to move on from competitive swimming at Eastern.   At the recent Summit League Championships for Swimming and Diving, both the Panther men’s and women’s swim teams finished in eighth...

Spring 2024 staff portrait of Payton Liggins.

COLUMN: My journey from shot put to sports media

Payton Liggins, Sports Reporter March 1, 2024

“Women’s sports are not as entertaining.” “Women’s sports are not aggressive.” “You throw like a girl.” “Women in sports don’t count.” Ever heard those before? I have and I’m...

Zaria Flippin

COLUMN: Football is for the girls too

Zaria Flippin, Sports Editor February 25, 2024

On Feb. 14, 2024, the Illinois High School Association announced that girls flag football will be officially accounted for as a sport in the state of Illinois. Illinois is now the ninth state that is...

Staff profile for Zaria.

COLUMN: Coaches should not be allowed to stand on the court

Zaria Flippin, Sports Editor January 12, 2024

Over the holiday break, I watched a lot of college basketball, and I feel like the act of coaches physically being on the basketball court is something that is never talked about. This isn’t the first...

Adam Swanson, a cross country fifth year student stretches and jogs before running a mile at Eastern Illinois Campus Pond Saturday afternoon

COLUMN: Michael Atkins is the next Adam Swanson

Mackenzie Harrell, Sports Reporter October 9, 2023

If both Adam Swanson and Michael Atkins keep training together throughout the season, I think Michael will be the next Adam for next season. Fifth-year senior Adam Swanson is the best runner on the men’s...

Staff profile for Zaria.

COLUMN: Panther fans should not give up on EIU football

Zaria Flippin, Sports Editor October 8, 2023

I have seen on social media platforms and I have heard from several people that they have lost some faith in this Eastern football team. Hearing how quickly people have switched on this team made me want...

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