Is there a better time of the year around here?

Is there a better time of the year here?

Another football season got its official start Aug. 3 with the first day of the sweating, swearing, grunting and groaning from players, and the barking from coaches at Eastern Washington University.

The dog days of summer — somehow labeled “fall camp” — are likely not lost on anyone who toils on the fields in 90-degree temperatures.

While a lot remains the same up at Eastern, the winter brought major changes when the architect of many of Eagles’ recent successes, Beau Baldwin, was finally made an offer to move up the ladder in coaching, becoming the off...