Utah State University-College of Eastern Utah Chancellor, Joe Peterson and Athletics Director Dave Paur announced the hiring of Adjalma Vanderlei Becheli, Jr., as head men’s basketball coach Becheli coached professionally in Brazil for 13 seasons before coming to Price. He was also the youngest coach in Brazilian basketball history to be honored as “coach of the year.”  “Coach Vando,” as he is known in the community, will become the first internationally born head coach in Utah State University-Eastern history. Vando, has been the school’s assistant women’s basketball coach for the past two years. Previously, Vando was an assistant men’s coach under Chris Craig, including the 2009-2010 season in which the Golden Eagles placed third in the NJCAA national tournament.  “I know Coach Vando will do a great job. He is an excellent recruiter and has been placing kids from Brazil all over the United States. I have had the privilege to work with him the past two season as my...

Although he attended college to earn a degree in nursing, Warren Workman found that his true passion was for broadcast journalism. Workman graduated from Snow College, transferred to Southern Utah State and worked as a nurse while trying to get into broadcast journalism. He said that pursuing a career in broadcast journalism is next to impossible without having had an internship and an impressive portfolio. Workman got his big break when he was a contestant on the show “Dance your Ass Off.” He was the second person to be kicked off and says that no one watched afterward. However, the show producers were impressed with the audition video that Workman made and asked him to do some work for them. He is now the host and producer of the show Filmed in Utah, the only show all about Utah filmmakers. Workman travels around to colleges and universities talking to broadcast journalism majors about how to go about starting a career in broadcast journalism. He spent April 4, talking to USU...

I am just going to get this out of the way and cut the suspense: I am taking my talents and abilities to Southern Utah University next fall. There, that ends the speculation. To future athletes and returning athletes who will be here next year, no worries. I will be coming back to help with the baseball team on the weekend. Now to the good stuff. I want to thank the readers for making The Eagle,successful this year. Without you we wouldn’t have been able to produce anything. I even thank some of the knuckleheads on campus that do stupid stuff--it gives us something to write about. I love working and representing The Eagle, and I wouldn’t trade the experience for anything. I walked into the newspaper lab a few weeks into my freshman year in 2008 when, then, sports editor Riley Spears was looking for someone to contribute a sports story every so often. Three years, 26 issues and about 40 stories later, I’m still here. From being that kid that to somehow becoming an editor within weeks...