Dr Z

Are you old enough to remember the Cleveland Barons? My dad took me to a few games as a toddler. The NHL moved to Cleveland from Oakland in 1976. The Barons never came close to filling the arena in their two years in Cleveland. The team's home opener only drew 8,900 fans. They only drew 10,000 or more fans in seven out of 40 home games, and attendance was actually worse than it had been in Oakland. Fearing that two franchises were on the verge of folding, in 1978 the league granted approval for the Barons to merge with another financially troubled team, the Minnesota North Stars. The North Stars were the surviving team.

Your right, they should sell it for $3. That way the BJ headline can read UA Triples Their Money on Rubber Bowl Investment

America’s most-attended sports events 1. Indianapolis 500, @ 300,000. In 2004, the Indianapolis Star finally undertook a monstrous effort to count exactly how many seats are at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Their count? 257,325. And while hundreds of thousands of people could fit into the infield, observation by trained analysts has indicated that far fewer than that actually did. So we're looking at about 300,000 people in attendance at every 500. 2. Brickyard 400, @ 300,000. Sort of a cheat, because like the Indy 500, this NASCAR race is held at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. All of the above stats apply, of course. 3. Daytona 500, @ 250,000. NASCAR attendance figures are notably slippery. The tracks themselves don't release figures, so attendance estimation is often left to a media member who stands in the press box, surveys the stands, and estimates attendance at "about X." Now, that guess could be right on the money, or it could be off by 50,000. Still, combining the grandstands and the infield at Daytona gets you a figure of about a quarter-million. And only five of them aren't Dale Earnhardt fans. 4. Texas Motor Speedway races, @ 171,000. Everything's bigger in Texas, especially attendance figures, and Texas's two NASCAR races usually draw about 171,000 fans apiece. And this won't be the last time Texas shows up on this list. 5. Kentucky Derby, @ 164,858. As with the NASCAR races, it's difficult to estimate exactly how many people pile into the infield at Churchill Downs, though the 2011 Derby apparently set a record this year for attendance. The number who remain sober through the entire Derby afternoon remains pegged at a steady 0. 6. Tie, Bristol races, Talladega races, @ 160,000. 2010 marked the first time a Bristol race hadn't sold out in decades. Prior to that, hundreds of thousands of race fans descended on this tiny hamlet in the Tennessee hills, created the largest city for a hundred miles in any direction, and then vanished as quick as they arrived. And although Talladega's attendance has dipped sharply in recent years, the stadium and the infield can handle in excess of 160,000 fans -- plus a few thousand more in the surrounding campgrounds who couldn't make their way through the gates. 7. Baseball, 115,300. This figure's a bit of a stretch, since the average baseball game is in the 30,000 range. But in 2008, the Dodgers and the Red Sox held an exhibition game in the L.A. Coliseum, and the result was the most widely attended game in baseball history. 8. Michigan football, 112,000. The universities of Michigan and Tennessee leapfrog one another in attendance, adding on bleachers atop bleachers in some bizarre arms race. The Wolverines currently hold the edge, but it won't be long until the Volunteers step up. Tie 9. Tennessee-Penn State football @ 109,000. Both stadiums (Neyland at Tennessee and Beaver at Penn State) have undergone numerous expansions in their history. Tennesee set an attendance record in 2004 against -- who else? -- Florida. (Side note: in 2005, a promoter tried to schedule a Virginia Tech-Tennessee game in Bristol, which would have broken all team sport records for attendance. Tech was willing, but Tennessee was not.) A crowd of 110,753 watched Penn State destroy Nebraska 40-7 back in 2002. 10. NBA, 108,713. In 2010, the NBA All-Star game's attendance demolished the old record of attendance for an NBA game, previously set at the Georgia Dome. And where was this mammoth All-Star exhibition played? Funny you should ask ... a little old place in Texas that shows up again, next on the list. 10. NFL, 105,121. A legit regular-season game by the Dallas Cowboys when opening their new stadium in a game against the Giants a couple years back. Sure, tens of thousands watched from a standing-room plaza, and many others couldn't even see the field, but so what? Other landmarks: As noted above, the best-attended NBA regular-season game came in, of all cities, Atlanta, where 62,046 fans showed up at the Georgia Dome to watch the Hawks play the Chicago Bulls in what was supposed to be Michael Jordan's farewell appearance. And the NHL's best-attended game was the 2008 Winter Classic, where 71,217 fans watched Buffalo and Pittsburgh at Ralph Wilson Stadium in Buffalo. The top-ranked NCAA basketball game was 2009's NCAA Championship, where 72,922 fans watched North Carolina demolish Michigan State in Detroit's Ford Field. Source: Yahoo Sports BTW MLB Far exceeds any league in the world in attendance in 2011 with a total of 73,451,522. The next closest...ANOTHER baseball league, the Nippon league in Japan at 21,679,596.

Sell it for $1, UA will be ahead.

Between June 12, 1995 and April 4, 2001, the Indians sold out 455 consecutive home games, drawing a total of 19,324,248 fans to Jacobs Field. The demand for tickets was so great that all 81 home games were sold out before Opening Day on at least three separate occasions. The sellout streak set a Major League Baseball record at the time. I don't think any soccer team in the area has that potential.

I was told before the Info was built, RB renovations were not financially feasible. I'm guessing that is still the case.

I think he might have been recruited as a WR, due to his size. I'm hoping he gets his jersey number since I bought it at the golf outing...booyah!

Bowden said the Zips are still waiting for his documentation to go through the NCAA’s clearinghouse, but he should be in camp in August. Source: George Thomas

Standing ovation!?!? Dave opened things up by asking, "Well, now that you got this out of your system, you ready to go back to Cleveland and play some ball?" Letterman "I thought you were going to stick it out in Cleveland"

Over the years Akron has been pretty successful recruiting in western PA. Coach has said many times that western PA is one of his focused recruiting areas. Today Jerry DiPaola of the Pittsburgh Tribune writes 5 star talent is becoming harder to find there. “The glory days of the WPIAL are past,” Farrell said. “If you look at the cities that produce the most talent, Pittsburgh is not in the top 10 nationally. Miami won with Miami kids. USC won with southern California kids, but Pittsburgh is not that talent wealthy.” This graphic is included in the article to demonstrate who recruits the area. Uncommitted talent listed in the Trib article: Tyler Boyd is a four star receiver yet to verbal. No Akron interest or offer. Robert Foster is a five star receiver yet to verbal. No Akron interest or offer. For reference, the PG list 22 top area talents: Post Gazette Fabulous 22 The Fabulous 22 is made up of the top players in the WPIAL and City League and a number of them go on to big things in college or play in the NFL. The team is picked by the Post-Gazette scholastic sports staff, with help from high school and college coaches. The first Fabulous 22 team was picked 31 years ago. Some of the former Fabulous 22 picks who are in the NFL are Darrelle Revis (Aliquippa), Rob Gronkowski (Woodland Hills), Steve Breaston (Woodland Hills), Paul Posluszny (Hopewell), Sean Lee (Upper St. Clair), Justin King (Gateway) and Charlie Batch (Steel Valley).

Part of the solution, IMO, would be to wait until week 5 or 6 before you start ranking teams. This is only a start, but I have never been for BS preseason rankings. Teams start off too high that stay in the top 25 just because they were "originally" ranked. Some teams never make the top 25 because of the early over-ranked teams.

What if Bobby is on the commitee?

AGREED.

Looks like he has the fade to the pylon down. The one thing that sticks out to me, is something that I have heard TB say multiple times...."quick decision making."

Maybe it was because Milan wasn't on the roster, but I didn't realize we got a 22 year old Serbian power forward for LBJ. That was some trade. Wonder if he ever went one on one with Cvetinovic?

Now tell me again, what did the Cavs get in this trade for the greatest basketball player on the planet? I think I missed that in all the chaos that was created.

Top Headline in the Trib!?!?

2011 Numbers Texas is king in total number of players - though it just edges out Florida (345 to 344). California (253), Georgia (170) and Ohio (144) are the only other states with more than 100 signees. NFL Talent...isn't to say warm weather is a prerequisite for producing top talent. Cities like Cincinnati (13), Detroit (13), Cleveland (10) and Pittsburgh (10) also produce Division I and professional talent at a high clip.

Nike Advertising, very efficient.

Feel free to discuss below.Here is Channel 5's Mark Johnson's reaction:

If you google "akron zips basketball", gozips is the first three sites that come up.

I stopped reading after the joke "football gets marketed to death." Now that's a funny one. You can add every basketball game to your electronic calendar with one click by downloading the ical file here. If you watched Zips Basketball with Keith Dambrot on STO on Mondays, they tell you when EVERY upcoming game is for the week, then they replay the show four more times. If you can't figure out when the basketball games are, your really not that much of a fan IMO.

For those interested, you can watch the game live here. Gamecocks win 4-1 F. Roth pitches complete game two hitter with eight strikeouts! Portage County Hysteria comes to an end.

My Great Aunt used to have a saying for what you just did...."trying to make chicken salad out of chicken s@!t" I'm with HT...

3-Star Scout Recruit Commits to MSU According to Rivals, Hicks' offer list includes Michigan State, Boston College, Cincinnati, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Louisville, Minnesota, Penn State, Pittsburgh, Purdue, Syracuse, Virginia and West Virginia, among other schools. Akron offered, but he didn't visit and was listed as "not interested" I list this because of TB's comment in his radio interview on June 5th where he stated "We need to put up a fence around the Akron, Canton, Cleveland and Youngstown area. Any recruit not going to OSU, should be coming to Akron." Hopefully putting some W's up this year starts to change the minds of recruits like Darian.