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Seeing how Nate has done after college, it's no surprise that the team he led won the MAC tournament title. As a side point, has Akron ever had a player in the NBA? I know the answer on this one.

I wrote to STO to see what the issue is. For all of us out of towners it dioesn't make much sense to buy the extra sports packages. This was their very polite and quick response. Per our TV rights agreement with the Mid American Conference, our LIVE MAC Football and Men's Basketball games can only be shown in the MAC's normal distribution footprint. Unfortunately, Maryland does not fall into that footprint. The MAC has a national TV rights agreement with ESPN, and those LIVE games are exclusive to ESPN's Game Plan package for Football and ESPN's Full Court package for Men's Basketball.

Quickzips, I don't know how much time and effort you put in these previews but you do a nice job (maybe you ought to combine forces with RootForRoo44 on ASN), but thanks for doing them. I watched some of the Ohio-Miami game on STO (why I could see that game and the Lady Zips vs. Ohio live, but not the Akron-Can't game mystifies me, but that is for another post I guess), and it seems eerily similar to the Ohio team of last time. Lot of talent not playing together particularly well (just hope the end result in March is not the same). Baltic looks much improved this year and Cooper is still very good if occasionally error prone. I think the Zips height will cause problems for Ohio and the Zips should win this one. They need to hold at home so I expect a big effort in this one. Maybe not 20 points from Zeke this time but should still be a potential double-double. Zips 67 Bobkittens 61

Posted by News Collector - 01-8-11 21:37 - 0 comments A late 8-0 scoring run - all six coming from center Zeke Marshall - capped off a 65-62 come-from-behind win over rival Can't State Saturday night. View the full article at www.GoZips.com We make fun of Can't Read, Can't Read, Can't State and then GoZips posts a "Come Back" win in which we get "A late 8-0 scoring run - all six coming from center Zeke Marshall" as our headlines. C'mon guys, not after the Can't game.

No surprise. Zeke Marshall named co-MAC East player of the week. Way to go big guy!

I could defintely see it. If I can get a few minutes away from work, I'm thinking about attending.

If you're looking to try to get 25 folks, I'm in.

+1 I'm pulling for Miami to pee in OU's beer today. OU can return the favor at Miami. Maximizes alumni discontent, I think. You got your wish. OU goes down at home. Also WMU took down CMU.

Triple OT now. I'm hoping for about 6 OT's to wear the Bobkitties down.

Rooting for TCU.

Don't see where Steve had a good night offensively. I think he was better on the defensive side. He was 2-7 from the field and 1-2 from the line. If Brett McKnight didn't step up and have a big game, the Zips would have been toast. The starters other than Zeke were a combined 8-30 from the field, a sizzling 25%. Good that the team could overcome that and if the other starters can step their game up just a little, the Zips will be very formidable. You may have forgotten about the 2 key 3-pointers, 4 rebounds, 3 assists (team lead), and NO turnovers. Compared to some of what we've seen lately, I'd say that's a very productive night for him. I did, I just consider rebounds to be a defensive stat, I just consider 2-7 (even with the consideration the 3's were big) to be just mediocre. Maybe I'm just comparng him to the Steve we used to know.

Don't see where Steve had a good night offensively. I think he was better on the defensive side. He was 2-7 from the field and 1-2 from the line. If Brett McKnight didn't step up and have a big game, the Zips would have been toast. The starters other than Zeke were a combined 8-30 from the field, a sizzling 25%. Good that the team could overcome that and if the other starters can step their game up just a little, the Zips will be very formidable.

It was blacked out on Dish here in Maryland as well. I have no idea why but its far from the first time that's happened. Ended up watching it on channelsurfing. Will be dumping my sports package since that was primarily the reason I picked it up.

If you didn't know there is a site filter that will not allow you to type f.l.a.s.h or K.e.n.t. unless you do something like put periods in between like I did. Most of the time it's amusing, occasionally it gets in the way.

And a crowd in excess of 5000 even with the students out.

One of his best games ever. A nice double-double with 20 points and made 4-6 free throws. Team leader in points, steals, blocks and rebounds and one off the assist lead. I'd say great game by the big guy. I was really worried when the Zips scored only 8 points in the first ten minutes of the second half but a lot of credit to the Zips for coming back. Nice start to the MAC season!

Its probably fine in Ohio, its us out of staters that sometimes get screwed over by this stuff.

STO is in Channel 431 on Dish Network, however, as I check it today, it indicates that the game is blacked out. Guess it will be channelsurfing.net for me. Arrrggghh, think I'll be dropping the extra sports package soon.

Really should be three straight, always felt Zakuani lost out because Akron wasn't a big enough soccer "name" at the time. Ironically, that may now be completely flipped and helped Nagbe.

From the BigSoccer board discussing the top coaches in the country, an OSU fan decided to vent on his coach. This is my first post on here but I have been a long time viewer and finally decided to get an account. I must say your list is pretty accurate, however I have a hard time believing that John Bluem is a top 20 coach in NCAA soccer. Sure he made the championship one year which is a great feat, don't get me wrong, but what else has he done to warrant this rating when he has arguably the best athletic department and facilities in the country backing him? He is a poor recruiter if you ask me. And on that national runner-up team, Eric Brunner transferred back home after starting at Maryland as a freshman, and Roger Espinoza was picked up from a JUCO. If you look at Akron's roster this year that won the national championship and compare it with Ohio State, it's 9 native of Ohio on OSU's roster and 11 Ohio natives on Akron's roster which is close, so I am not calling the overall number into question. I am however calling into question the quality of the natives. Excluding goalkeeper Matt Lampson and Konrad Warzycha, most the other Ohio natives from OSU wouldn't see the field at Akron. It's just frustrating to see all these national team players of Ohio pass on Ohio State for Akron. Big Ten vs. MAC. Columbus vs. Akron. The Academics of OSU vs. Academics of Akron. (Prior to the renovation of Lee Jackson Field) Akron's soccer facility vs. Jesse Owens Stadium. And I know in at least two recruits in this senior class the trend will continue with one of them being national team player Will Trapp. I don't really appreciate all of the slams in the last paragraph (more elitist attitude) but he has a point in that what Caleb has done is even more amazing.

If you did, you should stand up and claim it proudly. That was pretty clever - having nothing to do with the football team - but everything to do with stopping idiotic comments like that in the future. Don't know how much it cost, but I'd like to contribute to whomever paid for it.

M.A.C. Hermann Trophy We really ought to win it every year, it's been proven to be very difficult for anyone else win any award in soccer with the acronym M.A.C. on it.

This may be because the team needs to get to Baltimore for the MLS Superdraft (which I got word that Porter and many of the team members will be there). Would seem another night would have been better but you wouldn't want to wait too long for it.

The SuperDraft is on the 13th. Not sure if it is like the NFL draft where the players actually attend. I think I'll check on that ...

Glad to see Steve getting a lot of playing time and doing well with it.