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Category: Sports

Sports Profile: Athos Morais looks to dominate on and off the court

5 October 2018
William Humphrey
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Athos Morais, first-year business and data science major from São Paulo, Brazil, plays on the William Jewell College men’s tennis team. Morais spoke to the…

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Tiger Woods is back

5 October 2018
Tavarus Pennington
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As Tiger Woods walked towards what became the shot that would grant him his 80th Pro Golf Association tour win, the crowd followed intently, ready…

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Sports Profile: Olivia Tolberd positions herself to break digging record

28 September 2018
Savannah Hawley
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Olivia Tolberd, senior mathematics and psychology major, spoke to The Hilltop Monitor about playing volleyball at William Jewell College and how it’s shaped her time…

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Opinion: Penalties will not remove inherent dangers from football

28 September 2018
Madison Carroll Porth
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This past offseason, the NFL implemented a new roughing-the-passer penalty. This rule aims at preventing players from landing on the quarterback with all, or most…

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First-year Kaylee Kappelmann kicks off college career

21 September 2018
Michaela Esau
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Kaylie Kappelmann, first-year psychology and nonprofit leadership major, has played soccer since the age of three. The Olathe, Kansas, native sat down with the Monitor…

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Serena Williams raises claims of sexism at U.S. Open

21 September 2018
Julia Yamate Geminiano de Almeida
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The 2018 U.S. Open Women’s final was quite the eventful Saturday for not only Naomi Osaka and Serena Williams but for the whole tennis world.…

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Opinion: Nike – Just doin’ it for the social justice and slavery

14 September 2018
Haley Wadsworth
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Despite Nike’s long history of using slave labor to produce their products, the company has become the face of social justice for the political left…

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Sports Profile: John Ekwomadu’s Journey to Jewell

14 September 2018
Julia Yamate Geminiano de Almeida
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John Ekwomadu, sophomore psychology major from Lagos, Nigeria, is one of the new students here at William Jewell College this semester. He spoke to the…

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Jewell Cross Country teams ready for new season with [another] new coach

14 September 2018
Abby Christensen
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Eight kilometers is approximately 4.97 miles. That is around 10 thousand steps for a typical human being. At a speed of around four mph, it…

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