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malloy's in t-minus 45 min. go zips, hope to see a lot of you there.

Just received word that the old indoor "lunar mini golf" has gone under on the backside of the chapel hill mall. i know, you're all distraught. But i do have good news. Replacing this store at chapel hill is none other than the "Steve and Barry's college sportswear." If you're not familiar with this store, it'll be the third in northeast ohio (the other two are in westlake and ashtabula i believe). They specialize in collegiate athletic wear. CHEAP collegiate athletic wear. They carry teams from around the country as well as local ones (I've been to the ashtabula location, and found a couple of akron things, more Can't things, and of course, a bunch of OSU crap. They also had a wide selection of other MAC schools and Big Ten schools). They carry everything...from tshirts to athletic shorts and pants to sweathirts and heavy winter coats. Ready for the kicker? Everything in the store is the same price. They usually start off for grand opening somewhere in the area of $7 per item. That's right, you can find heavy leather trimmed university logo coats FOR $7!!! The one in ashtabula didnt have these available for akron (i'm hoping chapel hill will) but they did have other smaller schools such as buffalo and miami. They do carry other non-college stuff there too. Cargo khakis, jeans, plane coats and jackets, sweatshirts and funny tees. everything the same price. this is possibly the best thing to happen to that tired old mall in YEARS.Here's to some cheap zips gear!!!GO ZIPS!!!

I'm collecting some crew and heading to malloy's. If you look real close you'll see the plates in the parking lot.GO ZIPS!!!

if this game was in akron...i'd say the zips (-3). However...this is a "BCS" team. And we're playing on the road. I'd say NC State (-8.5)

yep. things turned out ok after all... a little team-bitching and they got things right. i saw that guy sitting by himself over on the side by the bathrooms. I was very very amused because when the zips scored their first touchdown we were screaming and giving high fives and from that point on he yelled at anything osu did even though they were up 28-3 at that point. P.S. The dollar drafts got us too...final tab was funny though 37 beer o/t month @ $1.00 = $37.00. of course that was between 3 of us...GO ZIPS!

hahahha. nope, i was the guy in the long sleeved gray akron shirt and zips hat. we were sitting at the island in front of the bigscreen. the waitress actually got nasty with us when we told her we wanted the zips on the bigscreen. Sad part is, i'll probably be there next week too because they get espnu for the game @ ncstate...

yeah. that was me and my buddies. you're welcome

Couldnt have expected a much better result from this game, honestly. our O line will dominate in the MAC. Run defense looked fantastic, secondary was questionable. I'm fine with the offense, a decent weather day wouldve made things a little different. Wish we couldve scored at the end to beat that spread, oh well. Good showing zips, at least we crushed the hopes of those 2nd and 3rd stringers wanting to get in there and play 3 quarters. GO ZIPS! and dont forget.... .Oh, and there wasnt a good showing downtown akron for the "Zips tailgate party" where the sign outside the bar said "OSU tailgate party" and we had to fight with the bartender to get Akron on one of the two big screens. Stated reason? "OSU shows us better support," TALK ABOUT FRUSTRATING!!!!

http://sports.yahoo.com/ncaaf/preview?gid=200609020034AP preview for Penn State....err...the game.It's nice that Akron get's mentioned in the 20th paragraph somewhere after joepa's life story and the hangnail that penn state's 5th string linebacker had two weeks ago. GO ZIPS!

this next four hours is gonna kill me...LET'S GO ZIPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

it just hit me. we're gonna win this game! somehow i know it.

that link not workin for anyone else?

Ha. some people were laughing on the season predictions thread when I and several others predict CMU as the first Zips conference loss.

BC 31, CMU 24 4min left in the 4th (this one surprises me)Buffalo 0, Temple 0 10min left in the 4th Northwestern 7, Miami OH 0 10min left in the 3rdMinnesota 31, Can't 0 7min left in the 3rd Toledo 8, Iowa State 14 HALFNot lookin good for the MAC so far...

Will we win this game? Most likely not. But, I'm not saying we won't. I'm intrigued at how fans can be so cocky after one fluke year following respective 3 and 4 win seasons. I guess that just goes with the territory down in state penn. But mark this post, hell come back to it in two weeks. Penn State will not finish in the top 25 in the nation. In fact, after the showing Akron puts up against them and the utter trouncing ND throws down the following week, you won't even be ranked nationally following week two, if you're lucky to stay in the 25 that long.Best of luck, you're probably gonna need it.

insane. mr herstreit, i just lost a lot of respect for you...1) It's Can't. It's FOOTBALL.2) 1-10 to league champion is some serious disrespect for the competition in this league.oh well. still game me a chuckle, i guess.

I'll post this again since no one else seemed to notice it. After hosting the ESPNU Bracket Buster party vs Nevada, I'm sure it's safe to say that Paninis is a solid supporter of Akron Athletics. So click here:http://paninisakron.com/Pages/PanEvents.htmAnd if you're too lazy to click on the link, I'll even tell you what it says: "Fear the Roo" gameday Saturdays. Kill the Keg Tailgate Party. $1 Beers till it's gone and $2 "Zip" burgers all day long. Several friends and I will be there, in blue and gold, and i'm sure we wont be the only ones and we'd love for some fellow board members to join us downtown.

http://paninisakron.com/Pages/PanEvents.htmhere's where i'll be, good deals and dozens of tvs if you've never been.

random...but anyone else having issues changing user preferences such as ur avatar or signature?

The Zips did receive some bad news as Brookhart announced that sophomore Alex Allen (Youngstown/Ohio/Ursuline), the No. 2 running back, will be lost for the season after suffering a knee injury over the weekend. An MRI Monday revealed torn anterior cruciate and medial collateral ligaments. He'll have surgery on his right knee over the next few weeks, but should be back next season.http://www.gozips.com/ViewArticle.dbml?SPS...0&ATCLID=542947

Bought the paint to make the Zipsnation.org Banner for the opener...seeing as i have a month to get it done, it should be a masterpiece and spread the word VERY well come september...

100!!!!

Back by 9/2?!?! Oh please...oh please. We need that presence....

*phew*

ditto.