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FOOTBALL: ALPINE, Texas (10/31/15) - It's been ten years since the East Texas Baptist University football team has had a winning season and with a 61-21 win over Sul Ross State University they will have it. The six wins are the most since 2005 five and ETBU has two games left to try for more wins and will now be playing for the right for first place in the American Southwest Conference next Saturday vs. Hardin-Simmons.

MARSHALL NEWS MESSENGER (10/29/15) - Twenty, 3- to 4-year-olds file in a circle around East Texas Baptist University kinesiology student Michael Coyne as he holds a green ball over his head symbolizing a "green light" in a ongoing game of red light/green light.

"Red light! Stop!" Coyne, a junior, shouts as he trades his green ball for a red one. "Now, shake!"

Coyne puts down the red ball and dances, each child joining in with him. 

All throughout the game, Coyne remains dressed in his Halloween costume, a full-sized hot dog with mustard.

FOOTBALL: MARSHALL, Texas (10/29/15) - Kendall Roberson didn't break the NCAA Division III rushing record but he sure did run for a lot of yards. Roberson became only the eight NCAA Division III and 17th NCAA player to rush for over 400 yards in a game on Saturday, October 24, against Belhaven University.

MARSHALL, Texas (10/21/15) - The 13th East Texas Christian Writers Conference will be held at East Texas Baptist University Friday and Saturday, October 30 & 31.  The two-day conference is for beginning writers as well as seasoned scribes. Over 30 presenters will share from a broad range of writing experiences with conference sessions held in Bennett Student Commons, Ornelas Student Center, and Scarborough Hall.  

MARSHALL NEWS MESSENGER (10/24/15) - Nell Wilkerson is East Texas Baptist University's oldest living alumni at 99 years old and she feels she has lived this long in order to receive a prestigious award from her alma mater.

Nell was one of three university alumni to be named a Golden Lightkeeper by the university's alumni association on Friday.

"I often wondered why I was hanging around this world for so long," Nell said Friday. "I think this might have had something to do with it."