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You should fill up on fuel and gasoline near Toledo, on this side of the state line. ---Woody Hayes

Seems like he was there forever. He's playing in Italy. It's actually James the IV. John the 3rd was the coach who led Georgetown basketball into obscurity.

Eastern Michigan looks to have size again, but that doesn't seem to have much benefited them in the recent past. It seems like Toure has been there for a decade.

Jackie Windon is top notch. She's insightful and knows her stuff. Reghi drives me to distraction. He always sounds like he's trying to demonstrate how well his last set of Word Power tapes are working for him. Just too many gushing superlatives.

The Zips open MAC play Saturday with a visit to 10-3 Eastern Michigan. EMU's three losses were to UNLV, Michigan State and UC Irvine. The rest of their OOC schedule was pretty nondescript. 6-8 junior forward Ty Grove leads all EMU scorers at 12.2 ppg. 7 foot senior center Boubacar Toure leads rebounding at 7.8 rpg. Eastern was picked to finish last in the West in the MAC Preseason Poll.

Damn, I am slipping. Off by a point. Can't give up 46 points in a half.

My Sling ESPN 3 took a crap with a minute left. Lovely.

ESPN feed acting up here.

Thanks to the UMass coach for offsetting that awful T on Banks

Reghi just called Dawson "Marco.". Sigh. This game is tough enough to watch without his incessant babbling.

Now keep this momentum and finish Zips!

Is X in the building?

Nice first 15 minutes for the Zips. Slop since.

UMass has played like a bunch of kids who didn't take their ADHD meds.

UMass coach hasn't discovered timeouts or offensive plays.

Riak with a solid start on offense.

Cheese and Riak starting.

The kid may be a great player, but the words "Cleveland State transfer" don't exactly strike fear into an opponent!

I had to go out of town unexpectedly so I will miss the game tonight. I expect it to be a good one. I think UMass will pose a challenge to the Zips but I expect the Zips to pull out a close one. 84-79.

YSU will certainly be no walkover. A good FCS team should be able to hang with a bad FBS team. I'm not sure if New Mexico recruiting base is better than Akron's given Ohio's general status as a top 6 or 7 recruiting state. Not that the Zips have been successful in accessing that talent, but there's a good base here at home.

In honor of Eric McLaughlin!

It will be interesting to see if he gets any invitations to any of the college all star games or the combine. Might we'll be a candidate for the CFL if he's willing.

That ref had a flop that would be envied by the finest of NBA floppers. I'm not sure Glass has much of a next level. He's a good MAC QB, but not among the top QB prospects for the draft.

Taking a look at the UMass roster and stats, three of their top four scorers are freshman. 6'4" Freshman guard T.J. Weeks leads all scorers at 14.7 ppg. 6'9" freshman center Tre Mitchell leads rebounding at 6.3 rpg and is second in scoring at 14.2 ppg. 6'3" freshman guard Sean East averages 10.4 ppg and leads the team in assists at 5 apg. Overall, the team has 7 freshman and 2 sophomores. Assuming they can hold onto them, things are looking up in Amherst.

Happy Holidays everyone!