Springtime is approaching, and that means it’s the start of a new season for Eastern athletics. Let’s get ready to show our support! Leading off, we have Eastern’s baseball club, hoping to shake off a 7-27 season and bounce back this spring. As a whole they batted .270, while their […]

The Eastern Eagles men’s basketball team’s record is currently 7-9. However, this team is currently on a hot streak winning their last three games and improving their conference record to 3-2. The Eagles look like they might have turned their season around. Their most impressive win so far this season […]

While everyone else at Eastern University was on Winter Break, the Women’s basketball team was working hard to improve their record to 13-4. The team left behind the Fall 2014 semester with an 8-1 record. The Eagles played five games over the winter break, and ended up adding a 3-2 […]

It’s that time of year again. For most sports fans across the country, Super Bowl weekend is one of the most heavily anticipated weekends in sports. As a lifelong Philadelphia sports fan though, it is becoming routine to a depressing tee. Just yet another season we will be devoid of […]

More than meaningless entertainment In Ancient Greece, when the Olympics began, nothing else was quite as important. Even wars would be temporarily put on hold to accommodate the games, a truce known as “ekecheira” (translated: holding of hands). To the Greeks, the Olympic games represented the height of physical achievement. […]

Thank God for the Eagles. The Birds have been a rare bright spot in what has been a relatively dark year for Philadelphia’s professional sports teams. The quick recap: the Sixers continue with Tank, Round Two and have only twomore NBA victories this season (as of this writing) than I […]

[twocol_one]Yes Elizabeth Vollmer The United States pays its professional athletes way too much. According to the Huffington Post, within a five-year period an average professional athlete in the NBA makes $24.7 million, $17.9 million in the MLB, and $1.9 million in the NFL. To put this in perspective, the President […]

Eastern’s men’s basketball team is having a rough start to the season. As of right now the Eastern Eagles are 2-5. Four of the five losses have been very close games. The one game that was not close was against Baldwin Wallace University. Eastern lost that game by a score […]

Eastern’s women’s basketball team is off to a great start. They began the season 7-1, with many impressive victories. They started off the season beating Cabrini by a score of 72-61. Eastern’s lone loss this season came at the hands of Lebanon Valley. They lost that game 59-74. Of all […]

Intramural sports allow athletes who are interested in a sport and athletes whose sport is not offered here at Eastern the opportunity to become an athlete for forty minutes, one to three times a week. Brittany Stroop, the Intramural coordinator, Head Softball coach and adjunct professor here at Eastern University, […]