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Here are thoughts on the trade that sent Luka Dončić to the Los Angeles Lakers

Gage Wellman, Reporter February 3, 2025

The Dallas Mavericks have traded five-time All-NBA guard and reigning scoring champ Luka Dončić in an absolute stunner of a trade. Forwards Maxi Kleber and Markieff Morris are included in the package...

Here are five all-time great free agent signings in NFL History

Here are five all-time great free agent signings in NFL History

Gage Wellman, Reporter January 31, 2025

The Philadelphia Eagles clinched their ticket to Super Bowl 59 this past Sunday with their 55-23 victory in the NFC Championship over the Washington Commanders, largely on the back of running back Saquon...

How each remaining NFL team can win Super Bowl LIX

How each remaining NFL team can win Super Bowl LIX

Gage Wellman, Reporter January 25, 2025

The temperatures are below freezing, and the roads are frozen, which can mean only one thing: the final four NFL teams will square off this weekend to determine what Super Bowl 59 will look like.  Even...

Bracing for NFL Championship Weekend: What we learned from the Divisional Round

Bracing for NFL Championship Weekend: What we learned from the Divisional Round

Gage Wellman, Reporter January 22, 2025

Just when you think you’ve started to get a grip on what is going to happen this season, reality slaps you right across the mouth. The NFL’s divisional round gave fans what they wanted and then some,...

Kent State stated in an email that it will give out free hot chocolate to students and staff due to the harsh weather on Tuesday, Jan. 21, and Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025.

Kent State students respond after university refuses to cancel classes

Gage Wellman, Reporter January 21, 2025

Kent State students have found themselves in the clutches of cold temperatures and harsh winds. The National Weather Service issued a cold weather advisory for Portage County on Monday, which will...

Junior Zane Cattage competes in the high jump during the track and field meet against Akron Jan. 19, 2024.

‘Good way to start the season’: Malanda sets new school record in track and field season debut

Gage Wellman, Reporter January 19, 2025

The Kent State track and field team kicked off 2025 with an ambitious season debut that saw records, both personal and team, get shattered in its performance at the Jud Logan Memorial at the Kent State...

Here is The Kent Stater sports department's predictions for the NFL Playoffs

Here is The Kent Stater sports department’s predictions for the NFL Playoffs

The Kent Stater Sports Department January 11, 2025

If there’s one thing this season of NFL Football hasn’t been, it’s predictable.  Teams like the Washington Commanders, Minnesota Vikings and Los Angeles Chargers have catapulted themselves from...

Hatred prevails and rivalries boil over: College Football Week 14 recap

Hatred prevails and rivalries boil over: College Football Week 14 recap

Gage Wellman, Reporter December 8, 2024

This is what college football is all about. Rivalry week -- when a team walks itself into a stadium composed of hallowed grounds to do battle with the most hated enemy of all, and this week was no different.  Michigan...

Madness, field storming gaffes ensue after exciting week: College Football Week 13 recap

Madness, field storming gaffes ensue after exciting week: College Football Week 13 recap

Gage Wellman, Reporter November 27, 2024

What a season, what a time to be alive! This week of college football perfectly encapsulates the 2024 season as a whole. Dramatic upsets that seem impossible on paper, not one, but two field stormings...

Kent State University volleyball coach Haley Eckerman speaks to players on the floor from the sideline during their match up against Ball State University on Oct. 19, 2024.

Volleyball loses final two games of season at home

Gage Wellman, Reporter November 19, 2024

In its final two games of a tough, seemingly never-ending season, the Kent State volleyball team said goodbye to a quintet of players and prepared for the offseason following a pair of losses to  the...

Kent sophomore Billy Meiszner faces off against Dylan Layton from Cleveland State during the wrestling meet on Feb. 22, 2024.

Wrestling’s heavyweight continues hot start to season in loss

Gage Wellman, Reporter November 19, 2024

In the Kent State wrestling team’s 25-14 loss to Bellarmine University on Sunday, redshirt freshman Brentan Simmerman took home another victory in what’s been a personal success story to start the...

Here is how The Kent Stater’s sports department predicts the major college football conferences will end

Here is how The Kent Stater’s sports department predicts the major college football conferences will end

Sports Department November 16, 2024

With the last weeks of the 2024 College Football season closing in on fans and committees alike, the end is still in doubt. Games are close, results are surprising, nothing is set in stone and final...