Junior Tanner Filion competed in the NCAA Division III national competition in Indianapolis over spring break. Filion competed in three events, a feat given that there are usually only around 16 athletes...
The 27-1 Whitman Blues men's basketball team glided past visiting Schreiner University 87-77 in NCAA Round 1 action Friday night. The Blues, ranked #1 all season in the D3hoops.com rankings, will face...
What is the difference between Division I and Division III athletics? Many point to higher standards of competition, more demanding time commitments and larger institutions as characteristics of DI...
March is always the time in which even the most casual sports fan hits a fever pitch of excitement as there is more basketball that can physically be watched for two weekends. This year was different though,...
Last month, the Big Ten Conference made a proposal that would render academic first-years ineligible to play in certain sports. The main focus would be to curtail the athlete-student dilemma that the...
On Dec. 5, 2014, Cardale Jones was a nobody. Third-string quarterbacks in top football programs rarely make the national news. However, there was something different about Jones. On Jan. 12, 2015, he was the...
Seniors Marah Alindogan and Sarah Anderegg discuss their journey towards being on the Whitman women's basketball team, national runners-up and one of the most successful teams in school history.
Former Northwestern quarterback Kain Coulter has led the charge in student athlete unionization and legitimizing the College Athlete Players Association or CAPA. What is most interesting about the CAPA isn’t that they now have a legitimate claim to collectively bargain, but what the union plans on asking for.
With an 85-70 victory over the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater (26-4) Friday night, the Missionaries (30-1) advanced to the first national championship game in program history. Whitman will play for the Division III national title Saturday night against Farleigh Dickinson University, Florham.
The game is done, the nets are cut down and for the first time in program history the Whitman women’s basketball team has danced all the way to the Final Four.
The news broke a few weeks ago that Northwestern University starting quarterback, Kain Colter, as well as a few other college athlete advocates had taken the first steps to organize a union for the college football players at Northwestern. Colter worked with player advocate Ramogi Huma to submit paperwork to the Chicago office of the National Labor Relations Board that included cards filled out by a majority of the players on the Northwestern team in favor of the unionization. This rebellion against the NCAA is neither the first nor the last time that the power of this all-powerful association has or will be challenged. It's also the exact step that college athletes need.
