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Baseball player enters as 20-time national baseball champion CHELSEA FELTON cmfelton17@ole.augie.edu At first glance, a spectator would see Jordan Barth as an Augustana’s freshman baseball player taking on his position as a shortstop. Barth started playing baseball at 8 years old and since then has been

BEAU BORDEWYK bjbordewyk16@ole.augie.edu The Augustana men’s and women’s cross country teams finished 8th and 14th respectively at the NCAA Division II Cross Country Championship in Evansville, Ind. on Nov. 18. The men’s team garnered 326 points, earning their 10th top-ten finish in school history.

HOLDEN SUTTER hasutter17@ole.augie.edu It’s Tuesday night on the Augustana campus and dozens of people are filing into the wrestling room of the Elmen Center. Inside, the song “Alone” by Marshmello crackles on the stereo in the room signaling the start of warm-ups. People start to move

Women open season with 5-0 record, return eight veteran players to roster REBEKAH TUCHSCHERER rjtuchsherer16@ole.augie.edu And they’re back. Returning eight junior and senior players, the women’s basketball team has captured its first undefeated 5-0 season start in five years. The team snatched massive wins against

REBEKAH TUCHSCHERER rjtuchscherer16@ole.augie.edu As leaves begin to fall and a soft wind breathes through the chainlink fence, people from across a sleepy town in northeast South Dakota gather in a small, aging stadium for the first home football game of the season. Local fans, cocooned in tie-blankets,

No, consumers overfund sports and over-idolize athletes JACOB KNUTSON jaknutson15@ole.augie.edu Flip through any magazine and you are bound to find a sports story about overcoming the odds and achieving an exemplary feat—think Michael Oher, Yasiel Puig, and the 2016 Cubs. The growing number of these stories

JESSICA RUF jnruf15@ole.augie.edu What did Johnny Cash, Chuck Berry, Little Richard and Elvis Presley all have in common? They shared the same idol: a queer black woman from Arkansas who knew her way around the electric guitar—Sister Rosetta Tharpe. I first discovered Rosetta, the “godmother of