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🌱 How EIU football just earned top sportsmanship honors again

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  • How EIU football just earned top sportsmanship honors again

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Today's riddle: Can February March? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

  • Tuesday: Sunny and not as cold, with a high of 37 and low of 31 degrees.
  • Wednesday: Freezing fog in the morning, temps: high: 40, low: 35.
  • Thursday: Windy with rain and a t-storm, with a high of 52 and low of 16 degrees. ⛄️ Brr!

📰 News we're reading

• EIU Panthers secure OVC Sportsmanship Award (heartlandnewsfeed.com) — Charleston’s own Eastern Illinois University football program has earned the Ohio Valley Conference’s 2025-26 Team Sportsmanship Award, its second straight and fourth overall. The recognition highlights how Panther players, coaches, and fans are viewed by their peers, and the story also spotlights longtime EIU athletics media leader Rich Moser’s role in promoting the program.
   

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🗞 Nearby News

Mattoon

  • Lake Land College Navigator News Wins Awards At Illinois Community College Journalism Award Ceremony (effinghamradio.com)
  • Couple escapes from car sinking in Mattoon pond after hatch miraculously opens (jg-tc.com)
  • St. Louis Children's Hospital patients design cleats for Brady Cook (firstalert4.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: I don't know, but April May!
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