Eastern Washington

CHENEY, Wash. (AP) — The Eastern Washington University athletic department — whose football team famously plays on a red field — is wallowing in red ink.

But interim school president David May recommended Friday that EWU remain in NCAA Division I and also remain in the FCS Big Sky Conference.

As a player, second-year Eastern Washington head coach Shantay Legans often locked up with the nation’s premier basketball institutions.

The former California point guard pushed through Pac-10 and nonconference gantlets in the early 2000s, reaching the NCAA Tournament twice before transferring to Fresno State...

Eastern Washington athletic director Bill Chaves is a finalist for the same position at the Big Sky Conference rival University of North Dakota.

Chaves is one of four finalists at UND, the school announced Thursday.