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Great to have our roving troll back, aint it?

zippy5 hit the nail on the head waaay back in March on this one.....

I was hopeful when I read the news today (oh boy). But I've been hopeful as long as I've been a Zips fans. I do have to say that the new owner's other papers do a nice job on local sports, especially high schools in their area, and I believe the Repository does a nice job covering Walsh University and Malone. The Record Courier covers Can't State pretty well too, deeper into other sports that the Beacon ever did for Akron. We will see. Would love to see George and Marla gone, but then we still have to put up with Elton up in Cleveland.

Wow. Did not see that. But it needed to happen. Not that I saw a ton of WBB here. More like 4 games in 2 years, so maybe I can’t say that, but seems like they’ve been sliding backwards the past two seasons.

I stand corrected then....sorry.

Used to....not anymore.

I think if you look at the posting for the job, it's been up for like a year....

I’m hearing they’re a lot closer to ready than Kato...entitlement issues?

Yabut....women’s swimming and diving has 5 straight MAC Championships....women’s golf and tennis top notch. And softball is...not.

J. D. ?????

Lee Owens?

Warren is now the Academic Coordinator for Football, working for Athletics under Anne Jorgensen, so I expect he'll be at most of the practice sesions to begin the process of making sure they "make the grades".

It's been a few weeks since the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships and just a week shy of the Swim Championships....and the Zips put a few names in the record books for All-American status. In swimming it was Paloma Marrero went out with a BANG, breaking her own record for the Zips in the 200 breaststroke, and also broke the MAC record, but most impressive was the fact she bacame the first Zip swimmer to be named All-American! Congrats to one of the most courageous competitor in the pool and a great person out of it. In track and field it was Matt Ludwig finishing up 4th in the NCAA Indoors in the pole vault, and picked up his 4th All-American status, while female vaulter Lucy Bryan earned her second All-American award. Jackie Siefring took her 5th All-American with a 4th place finish in the Pentathalon. And Jordan Latimer became All-American for the third time with his finish in the long jump.

Only reason I was rooting for them was to put a sock in their ears with the Sean Miller wire revelations....suck it power 5s

What??????????? Since I'm old and do not tweet, I'm not sure what this is all about....

Easily the fastest. Kwads ran 1 indoor meet this season before feeling a twinge, shut down for the remaining season to get ready for some football! But, his time in the 60 dash in that 1 race in January was the 4th best posted all season in the MAC and top 25 in the nation DI.

But Gawd, wasn’t that a long-ass game? I swear I could have walked over to Penn Station, ordered a sub and ate it there, (tuna, of course), and walked back to the JAR I would have only missed 8 minutes tops...soooo many fouls....soooo many stoppages. Not complaining about a great win, just, you know?

Since when did you ever preface anything with “I’m not trying to be mean...”!!

Hey there Zip_ME87, Are you hearing any scuttlebutt on the Crew Stadium vs. Austin thingy from your contacts with the Trapps? Curious what's happening there....

Wonderful. Very professional. More news and “up close and personal” than we ever get elsewhere. Loved it Cap’n. Thanks.

I know I never have, and I've been watching NCAA basketball here and elsewhere for a LONG time!

Watched the video on YouTube last night and wondered what it was all about....I'll miss you Coach, you've doen great things here, if for no other reason than for giving us credibility that you were here, with recruits and their families, and of course the local press...

When is anyone going to mention how AAU B-ball has a big hand in this and has been for a long time. The NCAA and HS sports has let them run amok for the past 30 years....

Love Jest....absolutely ecstatic for his return.

Well, this past weekend the Zips Swimming and Diving Team won their fifth - FIFTH! - consecutive MAC Championships, setting a record for the most points won in a competition. I was apprehensive when the team lost a dual to Eastern Michigan earlier this season, but WOW did they come through as the season progressed, and this is a bright spot for Akron Athletics, although most of us are focused on Football and Basketball. And there are 8 teams on the MAC womens' championships. Women like Paloma Marrero, Sadie Fazekas, Maddy Myers, Ellie Nebraska, Jackie Pash, Mackenzie Vargas, and oters all contributed greatly. And they really didn't have much fo a diving presence for the first time in a long time, or the total points would have been astronomical. Coach Peresie and Medvedeff should be feted across campus and the press (HAH HAH!) as miracle workers for a program that never finished in the top half ever! And then there was wow? What the heck happened to the track squads this indoor season? The Championships this weekend say the Akron men finish in 3rd out of only 5 teams, behind Eastern Michigan (expected) and Portage Community College (kinda thought it would happen) while the women somehow got enough field points to pull off a runner-up spot. On the women's side, remarkably, only Dara Parry (Champion 60 hurdles), Patty Ortega (5th hurdles), and Haley Hess (8th in 800) actually were on the podium for running events. We didn't even enter a contestant in the 3k or the 5k! And we finished 11th of 12 team sin the 4x4 relay. But Jenna Franz (2nd) and Lucy Brian (3rd) won points in the pole vault, Jackie Siefring won the long jump, Ariadna Ramos Gandia was 3rd in triple jump and Olivia Snyder and Abby Wilson (3rd and 5th) scored in the shot. But....we went 1st-2nd in the Pentathalon with Siefring and Ortega, which is huge. On the guys side, soem good individual results but lack of depth hurt. Taron Slone was a work horse with 2nd in the 60 and 3rd in the 200. Young Freshman Noah Williams was impressive in the 400 where he took 2nd. Garrett Crichlow had a 4th in the mile. Another freshman, Patrick Kimble took 3rd in the 60 hurdles, while Preton Fillman was 6th. The team was 2nd in the 4x4, 3rd in the DMR. Curtis Richardson and Cody Stime went 1-2 in the High Jump, both clearing 7 feet. Matt Ludwig won the PV as expected, but Cole Wigal and Tyler Fraker surprised in a tie for 3rd. Jordan Lattimer won the Long Jump, while Jamir Coleman took 5th, Maurice Harris had a 5th in shot while Phil Jagers was 3rd in the weight throw. But another HUGE was Kamar Majid - a Firestone HS product - won the Heptathalon, surprising the field. So....lots of work to do here for outdoors, and the underclassmen will need to keep improving for next winter.