Eastern Washington Update: At least we dont have a baseball team

... and we never had this guy on our roster. As much as I would like to rake A-Roid over the coals, there's a couple things you have to consider.

1. He used to play for Seattle before winning the lottery and moving to Texas. Keep in mind too that there are some pretty suspicious players on the M's roster that (cough) Brett Boone (cough) probably juiced up.

2. The roids certainly didn't help him clutch situations.

3. He's definitely not the first, nor is he the minority in Major League Baseball when it comes to use.

4. NFL players are getting arrested for drug possessions, armed robberies, conspiracy theories, aiding the Communists in Indiana Jones 4, sampling high school parties and I'm pretty sure they have something to do with global warming. Yet it's baseball with the image problem. Sheesh.

Now on to the Eastern Washington University Update. The men's basketball team swept the weekend after disposing of NAU 54-50 in a thriller at Reese Court On Saturday. Their Thursday game was obviously a lot less exciting when they jumped out to a 41-9 lead AT HALFTIME against Sacramento State. Maybe if they were juicing, the Hornets could have made double digits.

But now interestingly enough, the Eagles have won two straight after losing six straight which puts them in sixth place in the conference at 5-7. Which means that if the season ended today they would go to the Big Sky Conference tournament. Wow.

The Eagles do have to go on the road to play first-place Weber State and seventh-place Idaho State this weekend. But what could work in their favor is the tendency for the first-place team in the conference to coast through the few final games of the season. This always happens, stone-cold lock. That's why college basketball is the anti-college football, a meaningful regular season? meh.

EWU SCHEDULE (Thanks Dave Cook, EWU SID, for making my life so much easier!)