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Football players earn NCAC honors
Shelley Grostefon Senior Sports Writer At the close of the 2016 football season, six Fighting Scots received honors from the North Coast Athletic Conference for their contribution to their team this season. Defensive end Aaron Roberson ’18 was named to the second team. This season, Roberson had 50 tackles, 11.5 tackles-for-loss, and 5.5 sacks. Roberson…
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Bruce Arena: stability without ambition
On Nov. 2, the United States men’s national team fired manager Jürgen Klinsmann and replaced him with Bruce Arena, its manager from 1998-2006. Ever since Klinsmann took over the USMNT in 2011 the highs have been high, like the near miss by Chris Wondolowski that could have sent the US to the quarterfinals of 2014…
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Men’s basketball claims successful start to season
Aleksi Pelkonen Sports Editor The College of Wooster men’s basketball team has started off strong with a 3-1 record in the early goings of the season. After defeating Oberlin College in the opening match of the Al Van Wie/Rotary Classic, the Fighting Scots disposed of Defiance College in the Classic finale, 98-63. The two wins…
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Women’s basketball comes up short against tough competition
Ashley Ferguson Contributing Writer Winter is coming, and The College of Wooster’s women’s basketball team is preparing diligently for it. With four games already under their belt this season, the team is looking to maximize its strengths of speed and aggressive athleticism while working to clean up their technique and strategy. The Fighting Scots had…
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NBA Cares embodies NBA principles
The NBA, like just about every other professional sports league, has a league-wide organization which promotes the charitable contributions of NBA’s coaches and players’ time and money to what it deems worthwhile causes. This organization is called NBA Cares. I think it’s less of a slogan and more of an embodiment of the principles of…
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Cross country teams cap a strong season at Regionals
Megan Zerrer Sports Editor The Fighting Scots men’s and women’s cross country teams had a strong finish to their season this past weekend at the NCAA Division III Great Lakes Region Cross Country Championships held at West Ottawa Golf Course in Holland, Mich. The women’s team finished 21st out of 31 teams, and the men…