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Panthers eliminate Chargers from conference tournament
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Panthers eliminate Chargers from conference tournament

The Hillsdale College men’s basketball team finished the 2019-20 regular season as co-champions of the Great Midwest Athletic Conference after beating the University of Findlay Oilers on their home court on Saturday, Feb. 29. Four days later, the Chargers entered the conference tournament as the no. 1 seed, hosting the no. 8 Kentucky Wesleyan Panthers...

Alexander Ovechkin: The best of our time
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Alexander Ovechkin: The best of our time

Records, even the unbelievable ones, are all meant to be broken.  On Feb. 22, Washington Capitals winger Alexander Ovechkin took one more step toward a record many thought was unbreakable. In a 3-2 loss to the New Jersey Devils, Ovechkin became just the eighth player in NHL history to score 700 goals in a career. ...

Chargers finish third at G-MAC Championship
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Chargers finish third at G-MAC Championship

The Men’s track team exceeded expectations and finished third at the Great Midwest Athletic Conference Championship meet on Feb. 28 and 29 in Tiffin, Ohio.  “On paper we could’ve ended sixth or seventh,” head coach Andrew Towne said. “They just performed really, really well.”  The men’s team was led by a stellar performance in the...

Swingin’ with the boys: Balkan is a team leader
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Swingin’ with the boys: Balkan is a team leader

In the JAM weight room during one of the varsity men’s golf team lifts, one woman exercises with the men. At their practice, she swings right alongside them. Junior Grace Balkan participates in all of the men’s team’s training, and she’s done it voluntarily since her freshman year.  When Balkan was about 5 years old,...

Quick Hits: Joshua Fincher
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Quick Hits: Joshua Fincher

Joshua Fincher is a visiting assistant professor of classics. This interview was conducted and compiled by Tracy Wilson and has been edited for length and clarity. What languages do you know? Speaking-wise, I only know German, French, and a little bit of Mandarin. I can read Biblical Hebrew, Sanskrit, Ugaritic, Avestan, Greek, and Latin. If...