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I totally agree. Dambrot was even yelling at his staff for not getting on the court and being ready fast enough. He didn't want to waste one second of that practice. The highlight moment of the practice was when Abreu passed it for an alley oop to Egner for a slam. Also, the funny moment of the practice had to be Abreu vs Zeke. After one of the screens set by Zeke, somehow Abreu got "stuck" guarding Zeke while Zeke was posting up down low. Let's just say it didn't go well for Alex... I'll be there tomorrow and then head over to the women's soccer scrimmage to check on the stadium and how the Lady Zips look this season...

I heard 9:30am...Talked to GoZips today at practice, and it sounds like tomorrow is open again. Double check with him though... On today, I was really impressed. GoZips is saying this could be a Sweet 16 team. What I saw today, I think we could be better than that. The team is already better than the team last year, and we're only in August. Another point, I'm not going to be missing the seniors from last year( no offense, all great players, but the practice made me forget them). Then, I realized Nik isn't here yet either. Is there anyway we can substitute football for fall basketball? Because this team's limit is too high in the sky for me to see right now. I seriously don't see a team in the MAC that can beat us. Maybe if we have an off night and it's on their home floor, or they play lights out, we might lose. But I guarantee no 20-30 point losses to Ohio this year.

So are you willing to go as far as we're this year's Butler?

US and Mexico tied 1-1 on Wednesday. Not sure how they did today...

I don't think he'll go at this time. I feel like whoever gets it this time, is only keeping the seat warm...

Will do Z.I.P. ....I will post the link to the article on here when I'm done with it...

Thank you ...Now I can start talking to them. I planned on previewing every athletic sport at UA before the fall semester begins, with questions from zipsnation. But if I have to wait this long to get some specific "reasonable" questions, I may not do that. I don't mind the question of the high school vs uswnt or whatever, but I need some other ones so I at least get SOME reply back. I could of went in many different directions with questions, but I wanted to know what the Zip fans wanted to know, not just one Zip fan. Apparently we have a long way to go until women's soccer gets at most ONE-FOURTH of the attention men's soccer gets. If you're a huge zip fan and not a fairweather fan(or maybe you're just sexist?), you would see that the Lady Zips are improving dramatically each year. They were 2009 MAC East champions, 2010 MAC East runner-ups(didn't lose in 2009 or 2010 to a MAC East team...2010 was 1 tie to Miami). They were getting blown out by MAC West schools in 09, but 2010 they were in just about every game til the final whistle. They took eventual regular season MAC Champs, Toledo, to 2OT, before losing 2-1 off a corner kick...Women's soccer style of play is improving as well. With the highly talented incoming freshmen class, and this year's sophomore class, I feel we can be expecting MAC titles in women's soccer like the men's team...

I'm still waiting for more questions please

If you really want to know, I'll ask them that. If there is any other questions you want them to answer about their upcoming season, the stadium, etc. let me know...

Do you have any questions that you want Akron Sports Now to ask the players?

the amount of international students we have, we could do very well at it...

I like all of these rule changes. Having an actual painted arc takes away power from the referees who were previously allowed to call charges under the basket however they saw fit. Not having two separate three-point lines on the court will make womens games less confusing for the fans, name changes to flagrant/intentional fouls also helps. If you recall, there were several instances last season where the type of foul called was in question, when the MAC officials decided that lifting Zeke's arms above his head was illegal. Let's hope that Taylor Ruper and the rest of the ladies adjust quickly to this...it could be a great year to be a Lady Zip basketball fan!!!!! I expect a top 4 regular season finish and a trip the championship game

First, Track & Field/Rifle have been doing well nationally from Akron's programs, and I don't see that happening.Golf is on the rise as well. What needs to happen is the MAC needs to stop making some sports like softball and baseball required so that schools can put lacrosse or any other sport missing in place of that...

You think SI would listen to us about recruiting violations Tressel had like Erick Howard now? just saying...lol...might as well put more wood on the fire while it's still burning...

it actually does count as a conference game...

http://www.golfweek.com/videos/2011/apr/22...DB_OEM_ID=10800

alright...thanks for the help everyone. I'm hoping to get this figured out in a few days on a tape/DVD. I'm a UA student, so it's crunch time for me right now. So school is more of a priority right now, but as soon as i get my professors to back off or the end of semester, i'll get it done as soon as possible...

teah...its time warner dvr

i have both OT's, but don't know how to record it from DVR to a tape or DVD from that DVR...i have the college cup, miami, western michigan, Can't state, and notre dame games on my DVR still...hoping that someone knew how...

The Zips are only losing one player(Kara Murphy). Being in that close of a game to Toledo in Cleveland, was a great experience for the youth of Lady Zips. It will be interesting to see how it the season will go next year.

Akron Zips Softball split series this past weekend with projected MAC East and MAC West champs for this season. Lost to Miami 4-0, and beat them 3-0 in Game 2 on friday. Then, they lose to Ball State 7-1 and beat the Cardinals on Senior Day 1-0. Another interesting stat brought up, is that as a team, the Lady Zips are #1 in the country in stolen bases per game. This seems like this could be a very entertaining year for Akron Zips softball.

+1

I want to see one bracket that has the #3 #4 #8 and #11 seeds in the Final 4 There were plenty of people who predicted that there was going to be a lot of surprises this year since the top teams really weren't that good. They were right. Out of 5.9 million brackets on ESPN, only 2 brackets got the final four correct. yes...TWO BRACKETS out of 5.9 MILLION...

I'm not sure what "stacking" means. I went to the Hawaii men's tennis vs Michigan last weekend. Hawaii's best player played #3 singles, and just lost to a former HS all-American, ranked top 30 nationally. Somehow Hawaii won two of the three other singles matches, but lost the doubles and the overall match. It was only the second time I've attended, and was interesting. Free pizza! Stacking is when a team plays their best player not at the right position. You're supposed to have your best tennis player at #1 singles, #2 singles usually your 2nd,3rd, or 4th best player(depends on the quality of the #1 doubles team), and then the doubles, and usually the 3rd singles... For example random names Original Lineup 1st singles- Young 2nd singles- McLaughlin 3rd singles- McFerren 1st doubles- Frankhouser-Clayton 2nd doubles- Cline-Beckett "Stacked" Lineup 1st singles- Cline 2nd singles- Beckett 3rd singles- Young 1st doubles-McLaughlin-McFerren or McLaughlin-Clayton 2nd doubles- Frankhouser-Clayton or Frankhouser-McFerren