“Fallout 4” is game of the year. While visually “Fallout 4” doesn’t have much more to offer than “The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim” or “Fallout 3,” the add-ons make it a much more complete game than either of the other major Bethesda Softworks hits. “Fallout 4” gives players a completely…
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James Bond is back in “Spectre”
“Spectre” reminds the audience of the ghosts of past James Bond movies but refreshes the experience with a great deal of action and excitement. The movie begins in Mexico, with Bond, played by Daniel Craig, working his way from Central America to Europe and eventually to North Africa and the Middle…
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Sporting KC v Portland Timbers: Playoff Review
Entertaining and Sports Programming Network Football Club (ESPN FC) pundits hailed the nail-biting playoff between the Kansas City Sporting and the Portland Timbers as being the best Major League Soccer (MLS) playoff penalty shootout in the history of the MLS competition. Although Sporting Kansas City lost in the end, the game itself…
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Obscure Sports Weekly: Futsal
Futsal or “Futebol de salão,” otherwise known as “room football,” is a sport that is not well known by most Americans. In its most basic form, it is soccer played on a basketball court with smaller goals, and fewer players. The game of futsal originated in Brazil in the 1930s…
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No longer chiefly a football city
The Kansas City Chiefs are no longer the most favored team in Kansas City. We are well on our way to becoming a multi-sport city. When the Chiefs won the Super Bowl in 1969, Kansas City (KC) found its first competitive sports team to follow. Through the next decade, Kansas City…
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William Jewell College baseball ranked first in Midwest region
Bryan Porting, senior, connects on the pitch for a line drive against Lincoln University Mar. 25. Photo courtesy of Kyle Rivas. Recently, the William Jewell baseball team was ranked number 29 on the national level in the NCAA’s top 30 Division II baseball teams in the nation. This is the…
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Men’s golf competes in Lindenwood Invitational
Connor O’Neill, senior, competes last season in a tournament at Cardinal Hill Golf Course. The team competed on April 6 in the Lindenwood Invitational. Photo courtesy of Kyle Rivas. The William Jewell College men’s golf team competed this past weekend for the first time in a month, and the team…
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Jewell baseball is on a roll
Coleman Waheed, junior, slides in safely to third base against Lincoln University on March 25. Photo courtesy of Kyle Rivas. Winning. This word describes the William Jewell baseball and softball teams. Both teams boast a win-to-loss ratio of over 65 percent. Jewell baseball stands as the number one team in the…
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Timeout with Evan Lott: the rich are ruining professional soccer
Frank Lampard celebrating a goal he scored. Photo courtesy of football365.com. http://www.football365.com/transfer-centre/7550575/VILLAS-BOAS-FRANK-ABOUT-LAMPARD Wealthy people are ruining soccer. It started in Europe and specifically in the English Premier League (EPL), but its trickle down effects can be seen in Major League Soccer in the United States. An expansion club in the MLS this year…
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