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Lucky Z.I.P. In Paradise, what "2 guard"? Brian Walsh is a true point guard. And, at six-foura dimension in Zips basketball here to fore never seen.Not on this roster he's not.I see Rico starting most games at the point. But in KD's offense, there'll be plenty of minutes to go around. Here is another Katz piece on Bobinski. This one can start another scheduling thread!

I always thought Mike Bobinsky was a positive influence on our athletic program, though I think he left in fairly short order. How do people feel his sitting at the head of the NCAA BB Committee will impact Akron and the MAC? It sure can't hurt! The Muskies are coming to Hawaii for the first time this year for the Diamond Head Classic. Hope he makes the trip. I wanna thank him for the 2-guard.

Now we know why Zach Portillo wanted to come to Akron. He'll learn about Akron's ambivalence shortly. GH: If you could train with any professional athlete who would you chose and why? ZP: "Lebron James so he could teach me how to be a baller."

"because of his inflammatory language, Harrison lost any opportunity to make his point about the fairness of Goodell's system or to try to persuade Goodell to change it."Someone provide this lady a copy of the Bill of Rights, please.

Teal Bunbury is a bench player for Sporting KC. He might as well try to play for Canada's NT, his USMNT days look bleak.Your post should be placed on Bunbury's locker at Livestrong Stadium! He needs some motivation.

The Yanks Abroad blog has projected their USA team for the London Olympics next Summer. Perry and Zarek are listed as starters. But, what REALLY impresses the Zip in Paradise is: 19 y.o. local boy Bobby Shou Wood getting the start at forward ahead of people like Teal Bunbury and Jack McInerney. Is Lletget a forward or AM? I also can't help thinking the name "Barson" has to be in contention at CB. Remember, the Olympics is a U23 event for men (no age restriction for the women's teams).

Sixteen new players? 9.5 scholarships? Caleb Porter may not have earned any caps with the US National Team, but he's now wearing more caps than I can count. One of them is an academic and financial aid counselor. It's a great juggling act, but with star student-athletes (e.g., I believe Andy Chiu is a 4.0) you are able to secure competitive scholarships that most programs don't have the same juggling ability with. I know there was a lot of talk on BigSoccer a year ago about how many Akron players had academic scholarships -- and the inference that that was because of lower academic standards at Akron. I think most of our kids could easily get into Duke, Michigan, or any university they wanted. They know they can get the combination of education, futbol, and professional opportunities at Akron that competes with anywhere else.Looking forward even more now to seeing the team early on in the City of Angels.

That's gotta be the best prepared interviewer in history! Some history I wasn't aware of -- for example Bob Rupert being KD's high school coach (did he play bb in HS?) at Firestone. I vaguely remember Rupert coaching in the area before getting the Baldwin Wallace job prior to being the worst coaching decision I can recall UA making. It's fascinating that without that coincidence, he may have never entered coaching.Can anyone remember Keith's baseball history? I thought he was a catcher, but the story says he played 3rd. I may have seen 3 or 4 games during our undergrad years together, but have no memory of him. I do remember that I went to the games to see the best pitcher in the OVC, Mike Birkbeck.

OVACOkay, but your documentary evidence still doesn't beat out the faulty memory in my hard head! Wonder how that happened?

Well here's more proof I'm losing my mind. I don't remember either of these games being played at the Rubber Bowl.Rubber Bowl? What was the topic again? (BTW -- thanks for not counting the third one)

Party ended for the USA. However the home fans are still celebrating. Watch the bicycle goal by the bandaged Gomez vs Germany that sent Mexico to finals vs Uruguay. WOW! Mexico plays the finals at Azteca Stadium, which seats, what? 150 thousand, or something like that? There won't be an empty seat.

Someone check my trivial memory! Wasn't Sweitzer the QB who also returned kicks? He was, I think, in the top 5 in the nation in kickoff returns (#!?). Though I don't think I ever saw him play, I met his girlfriend, who was a cheerleader with Coleman Crawford's BB team, which visited the isles in 1990. Ahhhh, the legendary headless Zippy trip! You're probably right about that and I know he had a gun for an arm throwing out runners from third base as a baseball Zip.Sweitzer was from Indianapolis area. His brother played (DB, I think) for Miami (O). I think it was 91 that his GF was in Hawaii. Coleman, I think is still coaching in Dallas.

Yes. 40 to Zip over highly favored Tampa featuring Freddie Solomon at QB and Leon McCray at RB (both of whom spent time in the NFL). Zips opening kickoff returned to the Tampa 4 yard line. Fumble lost on their first play from scrimmage. We score on our first play. ACME Zip game sold old crowd. Tampa drops football following year.Second place memory. 80 yard punt at end of the game against Northern Michigan. Ball disappears into the fog that had settled in forming a ceiling on the Bowl right at the top of the stands, reemerges out of the fog behind the return man.Seems to me both games happened in the early 70s, but the brain cells that contained that info in my head have shut down (also McCray might be McQuay).And that game was Tampa's first after finishing the previous season ranked in the top-20, and beating guess who -- Can't State in the Tangerine Bowl. That's proof that it was a LONG, LONG time ago!

(American) Football games? OK, I don't go back quite as far as some of you, but I did see a couple of Browns games there, which I can remember. The last one, which my brother took me to -- the last time they played an exhibition in Akron was vs the NY Giants. It must have been the final exhibition of the pre-season, and Norm Snead, then the starting QB for the Giants, a long-time non-contender at that time (1970, 71?) did everything possible to avoid injury. In fact, many times, after handing the ball off, he turned his back and RAN backwards to avoid any possibility of being tackled! That was the game that Pete Gogolak, the legendary Giants place kicker was the first one I ever saw to kick a ball completely out of the stadium, about ten feet over the entrance tower. They stuffed about 42,000 bodies in the place that night.Later, in the mid 70s, Temple played a couple times at the Bowl, when they were a decent team, even marginally top-20 possibly, and Akron beat hem at least once. However, I remember their kicker Nick MikeMayer, who would play many seasons with the Atlanta Falcons kicked two field goals over 50 yards in the same game.TV? ESPN? The 1967 Grantland Rice Bowl vs LA Tech was televised somehow, I recall watching Bradshaw beat our butts. Then the Pioneers Bowl D-2 title game vs Montana State on ABC. The first regular season game I can remember seeing televised was AT Middle Tennessee soon after we joined the OVC. All I remember was that several coeds had the identical signs -- "Pop the Zits". I bet that creative idea was ubiquitous back in the day.But of course, the greatest -- weirdest -- memory I will take shall always be the Stupid Punter Game, vs Morehead State. I have told the story of Kevin Kendall before, and don't have the time to repeat it in its entirety, but in short, the idiot (well, OK, naive freshman!) was told by Dennison before running onto the field to hold onto the ball and not kick it -- as there were only a few seconds left in the half, and it was 4th and long from the MSU 40 YL. But, no one told him what to do after the clock ran out, and that the half didn't end just because the clock was on 0:00 -- he had to fall down to end the half. So he ran around the field with the ball under his arm for at least thirty seconds in every possible direction, finally being chased 60 yards from the line of scrimmage to the corner of his own end zone, where he eventually threw up a "pass" as he was about to be tackled in the end zone. Everyone assumed he and his team had escaped into the locker room unscathed, until late in the halftime, the PA announcer came on and said that the officials had assessed a grounding the football penalty on the play, and it being from the end zone, resulted in a safety. If anyone has that on tape, it should go to the Hall of Fame -- AND Shame!

Are you serious Spin? Did that happen? I don't think so. However, I DO have a RB soccer memory that I recently shared with someone in a pm -- Zip 37 I think. The first game of freshman Pat Nash's career, Akron was playing a season opener friendly against -- wish I could remember exactly -- a national side from Asia, possibly Singapore or Malaysia. The opposition had no players taller than about 5-5. But they were so fast, they would run around with the ball and control possession for long stretches without even attempting an attack. I think late in the first half, ""Doc" Nash's boy, who I had seen for years kicking the ball around at halftimes at Lee Jackson gets the ball about 35 yards out just to the press box side of center, and unleashes a shot toward the open end of the bowl that went like a guided missile into the upper left of the net. Amazing that it didn't tear down the net or go through it!

Ha ha. That's pretty good. But no self-respecting football fan in Hawaii can give any credibility to a list of the worst coaches that doesn't include this guy, who went 5-31 including being the first coach to lose twelve games in a season, and the following season June Jones arrived and won 10 games with the same players. So, there you go -- I-Coach has something to aim for.

Apparently not. Hope it's nothing major.Something funny going on -- he's not listed as a sub, including DNP category for any of the (3) box scores I saw for this one. Assume he must have gone on IR, but it's not reported on SJEarthquakes.com (admittedly a poor site by a crummy administration) as having sustained an injury. I think he played 90 in the previous game vs NYRB played at Stanford U before >40,000. Anybody back there heard anything about our Tony?

Someone check my trivial memory! Wasn't Sweitzer the QB who also returned kicks? He was, I think, in the top 5 in the nation in kickoff returns (#!?). Though I don't think I ever saw him play, I met his girlfriend, who was a cheerleader with Coleman Crawford's BB team, which visited the isles in 1990. Ahhhh, the legendary headless Zippy trip!

Thanks 37! I was trying to remember Leonard "Truck" Robinson. He was one of the first NBA "Bad Boys". He played for the Trialblazers, I believe. I think Larry Steele was also on the team, and played in the League a few years.Aaaahhhh! Larry Steele...Lloyd Neil... Who's paying attention to this anyway? He's a legend in PDX!

Thanks 37! I was trying to remember Leonard "Truck" Robinson. He was one of the first NBA "Bad Boys". He played for the Trialblazers, I believe. I think Larry Steele was also on the team, and played in the League a few years.

Ada knows Baltimore!

Thanks Jacob. That was awesome. Take a look at #63 -- Harlem Globetrotter futbol! Hilarious Also, watch #21 by Falcao -- reminds one of Roger Federer, between the legs!

As the L.A. Times wrote, fans just awoke from their slumber in time for two Chivas goals. I missed all but the end of this game, but I have a pretty good idea how it went, as Robin Fraser's team has been lackluster for the past three weeks. But apparently, San Jose met and exceeded their lusterlessness. I've rarely seen a player have a wider lane to shoot through than Ben Zemanski. But kudos for taking advantage! Now let's get a streak going. Blair Gavin started for CDCUSA. Didn't see Ampai, did he play for the Earthquake?

Here's to The Lone Ranger.

Well alright, I got the year wrong (GoZips confirms I was out of diapers by that time). It was 1972. But it was in Evansville, and it was Brian Westover who scored to beat Tennessee State, and their superstar, Larry Steele. Boy, I hope that was his name, or else some Old Timer will jump all over me! Was the first opponent Philly Textile (now U of Philly)? I don't think YSU ever made the post season in D-2. Didn't they ALWAYS suck?