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Great job by the OU Athletic Department's marketing group. We have complained many times on our board about UA students wearing tOSU gear to our games. Could they have picked a worse picture?

A little off topic but I couldn't resist posting a comment on the Kansas Jayhawk recruiting class. From the Kansas City Star; " The Jayhawks signed 17 junior-college transfers in its 25-member class. They came from junior colleges from across the country, from California to Mississippi, Arizona to New York with Kansas and Iowa in between. After a 1-11 season in Weis’ first year, the Jayhawks needed a talent upgrade — immediately." I think the team would see a greater impact if Weis and Ianello resigned and KU went after high school recruits.

This is an early concept drawing by UPA for the University Square project at Exchange and Brown Sts. Note that these early drawing shows Manny's and The Odd Corner remaning in place. Note the baseball practice facility at the south end of the project where the old women's stadium (Buchtel Field) is today.

"Dan Hawkins is one of the better coaches in the MAC" Steve Hawkins is his name and he is the most obnoxious coach in the MAC.

I am still confused. Maybe too much eggnog yesterday. It is my understanding that Gerry is a retired state employee. I agree with your comments on Tressel. Far too much negativity about someone who is asked often to help out in many ways in NE Ohio.

You have lost me with this comment. Identify the "we" who are wasting money. Did you give some money to Faust?

A record 7 MAC teams head to bowls. 12/15 Toledo - Idaho Potato 12/21 Ball State - Beef O'Brady 12/26 CMU - Little Caesars 12/27 BGSU - Military 12/28 OU - Advocare 1/1 NIU - Orange 1/6 Can't State - GoDaddy

Have you ever heard of someone getting two DUI charges in one day? The details at.... http://bit.ly/DUITrey

Coach Fleming won the first trial on the liability of Can't State to pay Jim after removing him as Defensive Coordinator. A second trial on damages most likely is unnecessary. The state should pay the full damages without a second trial since the amount is very straight forward in the contract. Attached is the judges ruling on liability.

The OK State play-by-play announcer left at the end of the Friday basketball game in San Juan to fly to there football game on a OK State plane. Their color man did the post game show by himself on Friday. They hired Steve to do today's pre-game, play-by-play and post-game broadcasts.

Quick tidbits from San Juan.... 1. The field for the 2013 Tipoff has been announced. Shaka will bring VCU to San Juan next year. 2. For the Zip fans that love to listen to Steve French, you can get a double shot of pleasure today. Steve will broadcast the Zips/Penn State game today and follow up with the broadcast of the OK State/NC State game this evening on the Cowboy Radio Network. Access for this broadcast is available via the OK State website and Sirius XM at 7:30pm Atlantic time

"ALL" things.....The WBB team gets off to a good start (obviously against an inferior opponent) but at least a positive move for the Kest crew. MSOC win in the semi-final round and play Sunday afternoon for the MAC championship. Volleyball sweeps the season series with the team from Portage County. Our football teams is still the weakest link but I am not embarrassed about being a Zip Fan this weekend!

We are getting close enough so the 10-day weather forecast includes the first few days of the tournament. Forecast for the 14th and 15th is Low 77, High 90, partly cloudy, 20% chance of rain. According to Alex, this is pretty typical for this time of year.

There are 50 VIP seats currently on the floor. 25 opposite the visitors bench, 25 opposite the home bench. I lost your thought on moving these 50 people. I can't visualize your proposal. Describe for me where these 50 people can fit " by the Zip bench thereby allowing students to take over the sidelines opposite the benches." It is pretty crowded on the floor already. I am struggling to understand your proposal. I also can't figure out how you can move the press row to the track and meet the fire code and handicap access requirements in the Ohio building codes. I appreciate the students frustration that they get lousy seats. I still think a new arena is the only true solution.

A combination of maximizing revenue from the lower bowl, a poorly designed facility and a wise rule in the MAC leads to our unfortunate student seating situation. You can't blame the university from trying to maximize the revenue from our outdated facility. The rule that the seating behind the visitors bench is designated as the visitors seating area is a good rule in my opinion. Very dangerous to seat the home team fans behind the visitors bench. Except for the Convo at OU, every home team student section in the MAC east is end zone seating. At every venue in the MAC the visiting team fans are located behind the visiting team bench. The Rowdies are one of many MAC student sections on the baseline. Let's get a new downtown arena that solves the problem so this issue fades into a bad memory.

R4R44 - I want to argue with this sentence...."Money is understandable, but when there are PLENTY of open blue seats, there's no reason not to move a few people over.". There are not "PLENTY" of open blue seats for sale. Some are available in the west level upper sections but you seem to believe that the lower bowl has not sold well. Totally wrong. Some isolated seats are unsold and you are welcome to join the paying customers in buying yours and enjoying it for years to come. Moving a "few people over" to the few unsold seats would have no atmospheric change at the JAR. While you are at it, why not try and fill the unused seats on the club level at Infocision Stadium with students?

The MAC ..... http://bit.ly/PFKXtE The team from Portage County .... http://bitly.com/Uf9K3s The Zips ...... http://bit.ly/RrEFvU

Mad Money October 18th. Full show less all commercials except for opening promotion. Show was filmed at the Faircrest Plant in Canton. http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000123414&play=1

http://yhoo.it/X1JQUc Note the accuracy of the picture caption!

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"I am proud to be a student in Oxford Ohio. We attract the highest quality students to Miami University. The faculty is tremendous. After several years on campus and many hard hours in the classroom I can now use both hands and count to ten!" Photo courtesy of Miami University Athletic Department

Coliseo Ruben Rodriquez Exterior View Interior View A little longer bus ride from the hotel but great news for Abreu's mom and friends.

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"Multiple Team Events" (or MTE for short). Division 1 schools can not play in the same multi-team event twice over a four-year period, but any school may participate in a MTE every season if it so chooses. Up to four games in one MTE counts as a single game within the 28 game season maximum. Net result is you can play a total of 31 games per season if you schedule a four game MTE.

It runs as a local commercial at least once each evening on WKYC during the Olympic coverage. Tressel is the spokesperson. I could not find a copy on uakron.edu or Youtube.