Eagles top media poll

Members of the Southern Conference media have selected the Georgia Southern Eagles to finish first in the league during the 2011 season.

Some sounds of the SoCon

Tuesday, Southern Conference football players and coaches got on the phone to talk about the upcoming season during the 2011 preseason football teleconference.

Eagles cope with death of teammate

Thomas Sharkey was only beginning to show off what he was capable of on the golf course.

My Take - What's in a football poll, anyway?

"P" is for preseason. Or more specifically, the largest topic of conversation during the football preseason - preseason polls.

Local Roundup: Blondell, Deal named All-America golf scholars

NORMAN, Okla. -Cleveland Golf/Srixon All-America Scholars have been announced by the Golf Coaches Association of America (GCAA).

My Take - Top 5 pieces of the GSU puzzle

Just about everybody from the 2010 semifinal Georgia Southern football team is back for another crack at this thing, so I thought I'd offer my thoughts on the five most important pieces of the puzzle returning to the team.

Local Roundup: GSU's Beene to chair NCAA tennis

Georgia Southern senior woman administrator for athletics Cathy Beene has been elected to chair the NCAA Men's and Women's Tennis Committee for the 2011-2012 athletics season pending approval of the NCAA Division I Championships/Sport Management Cabinet. A member of the committee since 2009, Beene ascends to the leadership role for her final year on the committee. This will be Beene's second stint as chair for the committee, serving from 1993-1997 while coaching tennis at the Division I level.

SoCon television contract goes public

SPARTANBURG, S.C. - The Southern Conference, in conjunction with its marketing partner CSE, announced Monday the league has agreed to a three-year plan with public television systems in Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina to televise the conference's football package. The distribution platform will reach nearly 11 million homes through 32 affiliates, making it the largest regional distribution option across both broadcast and cable. The conference's football package for the 2011 season was also announced as part of the agreement.

GSU's Steve Cochrane signs with the Seattle Mariners

The Georgia Southern Baseball team's season ended with a trip to the NCAA Tournament but the players are still playing games over the summer in both collegiate summer leagues and the minor leagues. Eighteen members of the 2011 Southern Conference Tournament Championship team are active in the heat of July.

WZAT to join GSU network

Georgia Southern Athletics added ESPN 102.1 WZAT in Savannah to its list of football affiliates for the Georgia Southern Radio Network for 2011-2012 announced Thursday. WZAT is one of the most powerful FM stations in Georgia, and will provide the Eagle Football program with coverage in the Savannah/Hilton Head market and into both Florida and South Carolina.

Year 2 in the GSU weight room brings focus

Georgia Southern didn't just change the playbook when head coach Jeff Monken and his staff took over in 2010.

Local Roundup - Eagles move soccer opener

Georgia Southern's 2011 men's soccer home opener against North Florida has moved 181 miles to Jacksonville, Fla. The change, announced Wednesday by coach Kevin Kennedy, makes the match against Presbyterian College Sept. 14 the new home opener.

WBMZ set to be flagship network

Georgia Southern Athletics announced today, July 5th, that WBMZ 103.7 The Boomer will serve as the flagship station for the Georgia Southern Radio Network for the upcoming 2011-2012 year. WBMZ 103.7 The Boomer is owned and operated by Radio Metter, Inc., and will start by airing the preseason edition of "Inside Georgia Southern Football" with Coach Jeff Monken in late August. The game day football broadcasts begin on Saturday, September 3rd, with the Eagles' season opener at Samford.

My Take - SoCon baseball almost there

The last event of the 2011 college baseball season came down to a pair of Southern Conference sluggers - Victor Roache and Daniel Aldrich - and to me, that says a lot about how far the league has come in the grand scheme of the Division I landscape.

Blair, Carter spearhead media initiative

Five years ago, Chris Blair attained his lifelong dream of becoming a play-by-play voice.

My Take: Georgia Southern officially in Sun Belt... so what now?

As the Sun Belt Conference Football Media Day gets underway today in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans - a long, long way from the Southern Conference event in the Spartanburg, S.C., Marriott - there will be many, many more questions than answers for the Georgia Southern Eagles.

Eagles picked eighth by Sun Belt coaches

NEW ORLEANS - After tying for the regular season championship last year, UL Lafayette and Arkansas State have been picked to finish first and second in the 2014 Sun Belt Football Preseason Coaches' Poll.

Road to the Majors — Where are they now? (July 19 Update)

Eric Alonzo (P, GSU)

Local Roundup: Carter named new GSU track coach

Georgia Southern announced the hiring of Kelly Carter as the Eagles' new cross country and track and field head coach on Thursday.

Georgia Southern announces 2014 Hall of Fame class

Georgia Southern Director of Athletics Tom Kleinlein announced Wednesday that six new members will be inducted into the Georgia Southern Athletics Hall of Fame Oct. 11.

Sun Belt to expand live event distribution with ESPN3

Group to hold benefit event for son of former Georgia Southern great

A pancake breakfast benefitting "AJ's Medical Fund" will take place from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m., on Sunday at Chops on Main.

Georgia Southern's Ferguson suspended indefinitly following arrest

Georgia Southern basketball player Eric Ferguson has been suspended from the team indefinitely following a June 26 arrest.

My Take: Truly the dawn of a new Georgia Southern era

Did you notice anything different in the air when you woke up Tuesday morning? Was there a sense of newness, wonder and anticipation that wasn't present on Monday?

Sun sets on SoCon for Georgia Southern

It's been long anticipated, but as of today, Georgia Southern is officially an all-sports member of the Sun Belt Conference.

Road to the Majors — Where are they now? (June 27 Update)

Eric Alonzo (P, GSU)

Georgia Southern welcomes QB Garrett into the fold

Freshman quarterback Monteo Garrett enrolled in classes at Georgia Southern on Monday and will join the Eagles on scholarship as a part of the 2014 recruiting class, an official in the athletics department confirmed Tuesday.

Eagles' Showers arrested in dispute

Georgia Southern football player Kentrellis Marquis Showers, and a woman, Jomeshia Jquana Slaughter, were arrested at their Cambridge Pines apartment early Saturday morning after Statesboro police responded to a call about a verbal altercation that turned physical, according to an incident report.