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November 12, 2025
New pieces fit for Gulls
Many Division III football playoff contenders lost significant portions of their team to graduation this past year. At...
November 12, 2025
Reloading Whitworth recovers from slow start
The Pirates made the second round of the playoffs but was another program that bid farewell to a bunch of seniors -- 33, in...
November 5, 2025
Roanoke making most of its first season
The Maroons hadn't played a varsity football game since 1942, and no matter what expectations one might have had for Roanoke...
November 4, 2025
Hanover eyes a November to remember
The Panthers have already secured the HCAC's automatic bid to the playoffs, but there are two games left, including a huge...
October 29, 2025
Curtis's message: Keep fighting
Carleton quarterback Jack Curtis has been receiving chemo treatment at the famed Mayo Clinic every Monday. It takes him until...
October 29, 2025
LaGrange in control of its destiny
For a team which won nine games over the course of five seasons, being in control of its own destiny entering November is a...
October 29, 2025
Rowan not giving up
The Profs came within a score of defeating two outstanding teams but find themselves on the wrong side of the math at the...
October 22, 2025
Blocking for Mr. 522
No running back can gain 522 yards in a single game without an offensive line that is up to the task, and Montie Quinn owes...
October 22, 2025
D-III drama in the dimming daylight
John Carroll and DePauw squared off in a memorable game that ended with the last daylight of Saturday, after waiting out a...
October 15, 2025
Norton perseveres in making lives better
Fifteen years ago, Luther football player Chris Norton was paralyzed in an on-field injury, and was given little chance of...
Brian Lester is a reporter in Florida. He has 14 years of experience at newspapers in Virginia, North Carolina and Ohio, spending 10 at The Courier in Findlay, Ohio. Lester also writes an Around the Region column for D3hoops.com and wrote Around the Great Lakes for D3football.com from 2012-14. He is a graduate of Eastern Illinois.
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