America’s pastime is in trouble. Games are stretching longer and the bursts of action seem farther and fewer between. Last week, Major League Baseball took two steps forward and one step back in an attempt to stem its decline. Last week, the MLB announced three main rule changes for next season— each of which have...
Author: Thomas McKenna (Thomas McKenna)
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Golf team splits for Findlay and Gaylord, finishes 9th and 6th
Head coach Matt Thompson said the men’s golf team needs to stay patient after two frustrating performances this week. “I think sometimes we might get a little bit too result-focused, rather than just taking it one step at a time and doing the best we can and making sound decisions,” Thompson said. The A team...
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Golfers should reject offers from the Saudi-funded LIV Tour
What do you get when a despotic, oil-rich regime starts a golf league? Meet LIV Golf, the new $2 billion investment project Saudi Arabia hopes will distract you from its ongoing human rights abuses. Players shouldn’t support their cause. Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, chaired by Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman, is financing the new...
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Golf starts season with runner-up finish; threatens program records
The Hillsdale men’s golf team threatened program records Monday and Tuesday, starting the season with a second place finish at the Malone-Glenmoor Invitational in Canton, Ohio. “It’s definitely nice to get off to a good start this year, but we can’t get complacent,” Thompson said. “We have to keep staying focused on what we’re doing.”...
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College launches new Center for Military History and Grand Strategy
The new Center for Military History and Grand Strategy launched last weekend with a panel and series of lectures, aiming to explain why the study of war and strategy remains important even as similar programs disappear from American colleges and universities. “It used to be the case that there was a chair in military history...