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The Advance-Titan

Independent Student Newspaper of UW Oshkosh Campuses

The Advance-Titan

Independent Student Newspaper of UW Oshkosh Campuses

The Advance-Titan

Athletes get day off to encourage voter participation

Athletes get day off to encourage voter participation

Cory Sparks, Sports Editor November 4, 2020

As athletes across the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference sharpen their skills in what is an offseason from competition for everyone until further notice, none of them had practice on Nov. 3. Tuesday...

Dak Prescott out fo the season

Dak Prescott out fo the season

Lexi Wojcik-Kretchmer, Copy Desk Editor October 28, 2020

Dak Prescott is expected to miss the rest of the 2020 season after a devastating ankle injury. Prescott, Dallas Cowboys quarterback, was tackled by Logan Ryan, defensive back of the New York Giants...

Carter Uslabar / Advance-Titan
Sophomore sprinter Jaylen Grant
currently holds the best Division
III 60m dash time at 6.88 seconds.
Grant was an indoor national qualifier last year, but the COVID-19
pandemic cancelled the event.

Prepping for a season of unknowns

Cory Sparks, Sports Editor October 28, 2020

As the UW Oshkosh track and field team prepares for indoor and outdoor seasons that may be filled with various unknowns, the team reflects on a year that was abruptly cut short by the rapid spread of COVID-19. The...

Courtesy of the Green Bay Packers

Major sports stadiums used as polling stations

Cory Sparks, Sports Editor October 21, 2020

Voting season has arrived, and this time it is under very unusual circumstances. Due to the rise of COVID-19 cases — more than 8.1 million cases nationwide as of Monday, according to the Centers for...

Ever since students had to leave the UWO campus in March due to the spread of
COVID-19, the team’s coaches have held weekly meetings with the players to discuss each step leading up to the new practice procedures that were implemented
for this fall.

Back to business, UWO Volleyball returns to practice

Cory Sparks, Assistant Sports Editor October 14, 2020

“We’re back.” Those were the two words that UW Oshkosh women’s volleyball coach Jonathan Ellmann said regarding the team’s future practice plans (according to Clash the Titan). The COVID-19...

Segment of the Wiouwash State Trail in Oshkosh near the Fox River on the UW Oshkosh campus.

Here are the best hiking trails near the UW Oshkosh Campus this fall

Cory Sparks, Assistant Sports Editor October 7, 2020

It’s officially Fall, and while the UW Oshkosh campus won’t have football, women’s soccer, women’s tennis or many other sports for students to gather for outdoors, that doesn’t mean that everyone...

The last time an NFL game was cancelled was on July 22, 2011, when the first preseason game of the year (the Pro Football Hall of Fame game) didn’t happen due an ongoing lockout that had been occurring that year.

Dear Roger Goodell, I am sorry I doubted you

Cory Sparks, Assistant Sports Editor September 30, 2020

As an avid football fan, I wanted nothing more than for this horrific year to be punctuated by another football season of big plays and crowds of thousands exploding in the enthusiastic chants many other...

Appleton West went 6-4 in the last 10 games of their season, and their final game was a loss to Kimberly, who had the third best conference record (14-4).

UWO alumna gets Appleton West Coaching Job

Cory Sparks, Assistant Sports Editor September 30, 2020

Basketball season is something of a routine at Appleton West High School, bringing about the familiar sound of squeaky basketball shoes abruptly stopping on hardwood as someone hits a pull-up jumper or...

April Lee /The Advance-Titan — Just like in the NBA, the D-3 Titan women’s season was stopped dead in its tracks because of COVID-19. Unfortunately, the women’s season did not resume play to finish up their season like the NBA has.

UWO students react to NBA playoffs

Cory Sparks, Sports Editor September 23, 2020

As the NBA makes its way through the conference finals round of the playoffs, fans around the world, and around campus, watch as a thrill-filled pair of matchups unfold. In the eastern conference finals,...

Cory Sparks / The Advance-Titan

COVID adds variables to fantasy football

Cory Sparks, Sports Editor September 23, 2020

Fantasy football has always been an interesting entity. This year, however, fantasy football owners have even more variables to consider due to the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on the league. With...

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