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Tyler Wiegers leads EMU over Ball State

  The Eastern Michigan Football team dominated Ball State this Saturday on their way to a 42-20 rout. Quarterback Tyler Wiegers scored a total of four times, three through the air and one on the ground. EMU’s offensive onslaught proved to be too much to handle as Ball State fell behind early ...

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Women's Soccer Faces WMU, NIU

  Eastern Michigan’s Women’s soccer team split a pair of matches on the road against Western Michigan and Northern Illinois. EMU shutout NIU on their way to a 1-0 victory and attempted a valiant comeback against Western that came just shy as they suffered a 1-2 defeat. EMU now sits at a 8-9 ...

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EMU ends losing streak, defeats Toledo

  Eastern Michigan avoided their fifth straight defeat when they took down the Toledo Rockets 28-26. EMU’s offense scored at will in the first half but completely disappeared after halftime. The team scored all 28 points in the first two quarters forcing the defense to stand tall in crunch time. ...

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EMU Falls to WMU

 Eastern Michigan Football suffered their fourth straight loss on the season, this time to Western Michigan on October 6th by a final score of 27-24. The loss came following an intense overtime period. All four losses have been by seven points or less. At the halfway mark of the season, EMU sits ...

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EMU Loses In Overtime to NIU

 Eastern Michigan football suffers their second straight overtime defeat, this time to Northern Illinois University, dropping them to 0-2 in MAC play. The offense struggled as a whole, going a whole quarter without a first down and delivering an abysmal performance on third down throughout the ...

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Women's Soccer Splits Two at Home

 The EMU Women’s Soccer team opened up their MAC schedule with a pair of matches at home on September 21. EMU defeated Kent State University 2-0 but fell to Ohio University 1-2. The team remains one game above .500 while sitting right at .500 in-conference. EMU’s match with Kent State was dominated ...

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EMU Falls to San Diego at Sept. 22 Game

 The Eastern Michigan football team lost a tight battle to San Diego State University in overtime by a final score of 23-20. Both Tyler Wiegers and Mike Glass III continued to split the reps at quarterback but the two-headed monster was not enough to slay the Aztecs.  Neither team managed ...

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Women’s Soccer splits final two non-conference matches

  Eastern Michigan’s Women’s soccer team split its final two non-conference matches this week with a 1-0 win over the University of Connecticut and a 1-6 loss to the University of Massachusetts. The loss to UMass ends a 4 game winning streak but EMU ended their non-conference schedule with ...

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EMU loses to Buffalo despite offensive explosion 35-28

  Eastern Michigan Eagles drop their first game of the season on the road to Buffalo by a final score of 35-28. After falling behind early in the first half, EMU fought valiantly but inevitably fell. Junior quarterback Mike Glass III stepped up a delivered an impressive performance after not starting ...

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Men's basketball verse Spring Arbor

Men's basketball verse Spring Arbor

Eastern Michigan’s offense picked up where it left off against Spring Arbor, scoring six of the first eight points in their match up against U of M-D forcing the visiting Wolverines into an early timeout. Eastern’s defense relied heavily on a full court press off the inbound and that defensive pressure carried over into their match up against U of M-D. Center James Thompson IV found great success early in the first half down low securing six of the Eagles first 12 at the basket.  

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Journalist Biena Magbitang recounts her experience reporting on COVID-19 during the pandemic with Eastern Michigan journalism professor Dr. You Li. This interview is an edited version of the full conversation which can be found at the Eastern Michigan University Archive. Check out the podcast version below!