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NBA Season Update
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- September 24, 2020
The National Basketball Association (NBA) season will resume this year because players came to an agreement to do so. Whether the NBA would finish out its season became uncertain after the Milwaukee Bucks opted to skip game five against the Orlando Magic on Aug. 26 in order to bring attention to police brutality and racial
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NBA Strike
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- September 17, 2020
Recently, the National Basketball Association (NBA) had to postpone some of its games due to strikes by the players. Since the shooting of NBA player Jacob Blake, there have been protests from the Milwaukee Bucks to promote police reform. Soon, the strikes spread from the Bucks to all around the NBA. As of right
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Basketball regular season ends with both teams taking a loss
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- February 27, 2020
Photo courtesy of unsplash.com Saturday, Feb. 22, the Elizabethtown College men’s basketball team finished up their season with an 85-81 loss against Moravian College. They finished overall 12-12 and went 5-9 in conference play. First-year Jalin Robinson made a career-high 30 points, with 25 of them in the second half of the game. First-year Wyatt
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NBA All-Star Weekend featured Celebrity Games for Valentine’s Day
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- February 27, 2020
Photo courtesy of unsplash.com Friday, Feb. 14, the NBA All-Star Weekend continued with a celebrity-filled competition for Valentine’s Day. Sponsored by Ruffles, the 2020 NBA All-Star Weekend Celebrity Game pitted ESPN commentators Stephen A. Smith and Michael Wilbon together as the head coaches of the match. TV show personality and Mayor of Flavortown Guy Fieri
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Baseball makes a comeback in second game of doubleheader
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- February 27, 2020
Photo: Etown Athletics The Elizabethtown College baseball team opened its season Saturday, Feb. 22 with a doubleheader against Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia. The first game began at 12p.m. and resulted in a 0-6 loss. It was followed directly by another game at 2:30 p.m. where the Blue Jays redeemed themselves with a 9-0 win.
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Basketball splits score, women’s team wins, men’s team takes loss
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- February 20, 2020
Photo: Jocelyn Kline Wednesday, Feb. 12, the Elizabethtown College men’s and women’s basketball teams faced off against Goucher College. The men lost at home by 12 points, and the women won at Goucher by eight. Senior Connor Moffatt scored in the double digits for the sixth game in a row with 19 points. He also
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Men’s basketball takes three-point loss, breaks two-game win streak
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- February 13, 2020
Photo courtesy of Unsplash.com Wednesday, Feb. 5, the Elizabethtown College men’s basketball team faced off against the Catholic University of America. The men lost at Catholic by three points. With just three seconds left, Catholic’s senior Colin Hartmann made a three-pointer that won Catholic the game. Three players scored in the double digits for Etown.
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Women’s basketball faces back-to-back losses by tough opponents
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- February 13, 2020
Photo by: Jocelyn Kline Wednesday, Feb. 5, the Elizabethtown College women’s basketball team fought on their home court against the Catholic University of America. Junior Veronica Christ had a team high of 21 points, followed by senior Lydia Lawson’s 15. Christ scored 12 of those points in the first half, while Lawson scored 10 of
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The leading legacy of Kobe Bryant
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- February 6, 2020
Photo courtesy of unsplash.com Jan. 26, 2020, the NBA lost a well-renowned player. This left a major impact on the world of sports. That basketball player was Kobe Bryant. He was in a helicopter with his daughter and seven other people on the way to his daughter’s basketball game in Thousand Oaks, California when the
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