Dr Z

That is exactly what I will be evaluating the first time I am at a game...if he is playing. Possibly Dec 7th or 18th. For sure Jan 2nd.

The Most Important Tree in Akron Keeps Growing by RYAN ISLEY on NOVEMBER 1, 2013 It’s a bird! It’s a plane! No – it’s Tree! If you are driving around Akron, don’t be surprised to see the face of Demetrius “Tree” Treadwell when you pass by billboards throughout the city. It’s just part of the University of Akron’s “Back the Zips” campaign for the 2013-14 basketball season. But don’t worry – while the 6-foot-7 senior forward likes the idea of the campaign, he doesn’t see that as added pressure heading into the season. “It’s a really good feeling, a really good honor. When I saw it, I was like ‘that’s me’,” Treadwell said at Zips media day. “I really don’t feel like there is any pressure besides handling myself day in and day out and being the best person I can be.” Continue reading by clicking here

Overcast with possible rain showers Saturday. High of 48. Key to the game: Stop Ken+ running the ball, make them pass. I wonder how Dri's ankle is? He only had five carries last week. Ten carries the week before. He is still averaging over seven yards a carry on a bum ankle.

Florentijn Hofman, a dutch artist, recently displayed a forty foot rubber duck in Pittsburgh. Maybe Akron can contact him. Here are 17 photos.

NOW, I'm pumped for the game! (couldn't find a smiley with a hoodie smoking a cigar)

I like this score, if we score first. If they score first I'll 24-20 Zips. PS So far, not one member has picked the Zips to lose, including me.

Predict your score below. Always remember what's

I do, I watch the games.

Thank you! Thrush. That's it. Intial poll results not good. Can't wait to hear at the stadium.

I stopped by a tv at a party that had the PSU game on Saturday night. There does not seem to be holding in the little 10. I remember that from the UM game. Zips didn't get called for holding in the first half, as I spotted it multiple times. Mac refs throw too many flags for too many things that don't effect the play. They ruin the entertainment value for fans. Little ten refs do a better job of holding onto flags. Steve made me laugh when referring to the refs the second half of the Ball State game. CK's sig reminds me...Ex Ken+ "attendee", alienates his only fans.

BREAKTHROO, I like it. I might have went gold on the ROO, but still well done.

The mark reminds me of the old 1970's Roadrunner (I think) logo.

Source Starting in the 2014 season, the Class AA affiliate of the Cleveland Indians will be known as the Akron Rubber Ducks. In an event at the Akron Civic Theatre, team owner Ken Babby announced that now is the time to dig deep, and create a brand that’s fun, and will mark the fan experience. Rubber Ducks general manager Jim Pfander says they are thrilled to be part of the new brand, which was chosen as a way to represent Akron’s history in the rubber industry. “This is part of our heritage. This is part of our history. This is part of our future,” said Pfander Babby says that when he bought the team, he wanted to improve the fan experience, and feels he did that in 2013 with discounted tickets and more fan-friendly activities. He says he also committed over $3 million in improvements to Canal Park, which he now says will total $5 million by the opening of the 2014 season, including a new restaurant at the ballpark. Babby has a 25-year contract with the city of Akron to keep the team at Canal Park. More on "Lame Duck" from MLB

For the first time this season, I'm starting to question the "truth." I was hoping he would progress more, and become comfortable running coach Bowden's offense. He continues to run plays into the teeth of the defense. I would love him to audible out of some bad plays that kill drives. He needs to throw multiple inside slant passes in practice until he can consistently deliver that play on time. He throws a nice go route, we need to take advantage of that more. Time to step up this week, or consider another option.

Agreed. But I would add "outside of the MAC" to the end of your sentence.

488 Thanks, that was fun to follow. Wenning is the the real deal.

That was the longest of his career...and untouched.

Not worth it's own thread, but I found this interesting. This weeks ESPN the Magazine features LeBron, and has an headline article entitled "The Lost Stories of LBJ." Interesting in-depth article worth the read for non haters. The second part of the story focuses on the relationship and paths of LBJ and Maurice Clarett. The end of this section reads: But while the NFL may not want Clarett as a player, the league did have him address this summer's rookie symposium in Aurora, Ohio. Colleges pay to hear him speak. And in August, he heard from Romeo Travis, a member of LeBron's inner circle. He asked if Clarett could counsel Alex Abreu, a guard at Akron, where LeBron's old St. Vincent–St. Mary coach, Keith Dambrot, is the head man. Abreu pleaded guilty in June to one count of felony drug trafficking. The 22-year-old, who is no longer enrolled at Akron, needed to comprehend that his path was running closer to Clarett's than to LeBron's. Source

I was originally thinking the rain or cold would not effect passing yards. I have made that mistake one too many times in fantasy football predictions. Wind IS an issue. It's gusting pretty good this morning. Otherwise it's a pretty nice October Ohio day. Sunny and 45 degrees. I'll still take the OVER.

The Plain Dealer's EA trys to break the game down with almost as many numbers as letters!?!

Power of the pen. I wonder if the resignation is a step to start some kind of legal action. The principle handled this poorly. Hopefully the great grandson of the guy from Nantucket never enrolls in his institution.

Not sounding like it. Here is what Rittman principal Brett Lanz told WJW in a statement: "[The student] wrote a mean and disrespectful poem about another student and our athletic director/head coach. [it was] hazing, harrassment." Does a mean-spirited poem read out once in a public classroom really constitute hazing? Neither Andre or his mother think it does, and one prominent Cleveland civil rights lawyer agrees with them. "The breadth of expression, even in public schools, is virtually limitless," Cleveland-based lawyer Avery Friedman told WJW. "Unless speech is creating material disruption to the educational process, which certainly isn’t here."

What would you put the over/under for combined passing yards for both teams at Saturday?

This guy is very good about forwarding emails to the proper person.

Maybe writers are hedging their bets knowing that paperwork needs to be filed properly in order for that to happen.