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(01/07/13 1:36am)
For many student-athletes, high school years are filled with recruitment and plans for taking their skills to the next level.
For most of them, the next step is college. However, for Derek Thompson, a senior at Eastern Michigan University, the process of playing college basketball looked a bit different.
(03/14/12 11:50pm)
March 13, Ron English, head coach of Eastern Michigan University’s football team, announced Randy Stewart will be joining the Eagles’ coaching staff as the linebackers’ coach.
(03/08/12 12:55am)
With no time left on the clock, junior forward Jamell Harris threw up a three-point attempt that would tie the game. The ball bounced in and spun back out of the rim, bringing Eastern Michigan University’s men’s basketball team’s season to an end as Northern Illinois took the 55-52 victory against the Eagles on Monday night at the Convocation Center.
(03/04/12 10:32pm)
Being a point guard is a challenge for anyone, but being a freshman guard can be all the more challenging. Iesha Collins understands the challenge she is presented with as she is looked to as one of the leaders of the Eastern Michigan University women’s basketball team, and she seems to be taking that challenge head-on.
(02/16/12 2:41am)
Sophomore guard Derek Thompson’s 18 points were not enough for the Eastern Michigan University men’s basketball team to overcome an early lead by Central Michigan. The Chippewas defeated the Eagles 55-52 Tuesday night in Mount Pleasant.
(02/13/12 2:25am)
“I started our Olympic tradition. I am TruEMU.” It’s a slogan that the vast majority of EMU students walk past everyday, as it is written in large letters on a banner hanging outside of Bowen Field House. But do people who walk past that banner really know what that Olympic tradition is?
(02/09/12 1:57am)
Basketball started from a different perspective for Amber Bogard. Bogard, then a cheerleader, decided in the eighth grade she would give basketball a try.
(02/06/12 1:38am)
Foul trouble and an offensive drought led to the fall of the Eastern Michigan University men’s basketball team who suffered a 77-47 loss to Akron inside Rhodes Arena on Saturday.
(02/02/12 3:15am)
In just one year of playing for Eastern Michigan University, Latarrius Thomas racked up 79 tackles (6.5 tpg) along with four quarterback rushes, three pass breakups and one forced fumble.
(01/30/12 2:17am)
Entertaining, remarkable and affectionate: that is Anthony Strickland in the eyes of his older sister, Antonice.
(01/26/12 1:56am)
Desyree Thomas got her start by playing basketball with the boys in her apartment complex. It was not until the fourth grade when they had tryouts that she actually joined a team.
(01/23/12 1:11am)
A person’s family can have one of the greatest impacts on their life. Many times their influence goes farther than any other. For Natacia Watkins, growing up in a family where basketball was ever-present is the reason she decided to pick up a ball.
(01/19/12 1:27am)
Following in the footsteps of her mother and father is what got Olivia Fouty basketball.
(01/09/12 1:52am)
It was a neck-and-neck game for most of the second half but senior guard Darrell Lampley made six consecutive free-throws in the final 1:38 of Saturday’s game to help lift the Eastern Michigan men’s basketball team to a 47-40 Mid-American Conference opener victory against Northern Illinois.
(01/09/12 1:48am)
It all started in the ninth grade when Jamell Harris decided to follow in the footsteps of his older brother, Justin, whom he adored.
(12/15/11 2:49am)
Anthony Strickland summed up his teammate Darrell Lampley as an energetic scorer and an aggressive leader.
(12/12/11 2:19am)
It almost wasn’t a choice when Paige Redditt started playing basketball her freshman year of high school. Her parents told her she had to try it. If she decided she did not want to continue with it then she didn’t have to keep playing, but they wanted her to at least try it.
(12/05/11 2:49am)
It all started in the 2009-2010 season when senior center Justin Dobbins was stricken with an injury that put him on the sidelines for almost the entire non-conference season. During that time the Eastern Michigan University men’s basketball team relied on, then freshman, Matt Balkema to lead them in the paint.
(12/01/11 4:20am)
In Coach Rob Murphy’s first trip back to Syracuse on Tuesday, the Eastern Michigan University basketball team lost 84-48.
(11/21/11 5:07am)
After recording the biggest turn-around season in program history, the Eastern Michigan University volleyball team was looking to build on past success. And that it did.