Martha Mullins, a former Eastern associate athletics director who helped transform the university’s sports program, will be inducted into the Ohio Valley Conference Hall of Fame next month.

Eastern’s basketball head coach Jeff Neubauer was selected as the 2013 National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) All-District 19 Coach on March 29.

College is expensive. So when student-athletes have their tuition paid through a full athletic scholarship, all is well, right?

Remember the athlete you idolized when you were younger? Players like Derek Jeter, Michael Jordan and Mia Hamm have been idolized by children and adults alike.

Situated just 17 miles south of Lexington on I-75 is our university, Eastern Kentucky. We are in a peculiar location, where the flags that fly are predominately blue and white and the school to our north’s aura is uncomfortably present.

One of the biggest topics flying around the sports world right now is Lance Armstrong and his confession of using Performance Enhancing Drugs (PEDs) while competing. Another hot topic is the in-season human growth hormone testing the MLB has announced for the upcoming season.