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As of today, 22 people have put deposits down on the Puerto Rico trip put together by the Athletic Development Department and Chima Travel. Chima has over twenty additional coach tickets reserved on the United flights to San Juan. This is a pretty good deal considering it includes air fare, hotel room, all taxes, tips, resort fees, ground transportation and game tickets. I have stayed at this hotel (the last time we played in Puerto Rico) and it is a good location and well maintained property. Make your decision about joining us before the tickets are gone.

In the third installment, coach takes the players to the City of Can't Police Department and lets them sit in the back of a cruiser so they are more comfortable during their first arrest.

Usual boring restrictor plate race until the last 15 laps. Amazing how Smoke could be half-a-lap behind the lead pack at the half way mark and come back to win after starting in 42nd position. Nice night for Stewart-Haas. A win for Smoke and a 5th place finish for Ryan Newman. But still a boring race for the first 145 laps.

The OJ at Lawson's was OK. Their French Onion Chip Dip was (and still is) the best.

6/19/2012 article from Pittsburgh Tribune. http://triblive.com/sports/2007588-74/damb...ment-basketball

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/ohio/obit...3&fhid=2780

Not unless we have become a Lipton Tea school.

Or use this one...... http://bit.ly/JV6wSj

I was provided with a flier and made the original post based upon it. I didn't even check to see if Gozips.com had been updated. I'll send a note to the staff today to get the info on their website. Glad to hear you are coming back to support the event.

Hey Captain, have your reserved your foursome yet. One of your continuing gripes has been resolved. The football golf outing is back. Fliers are in the mail. They have a title sponsor this year, "Leaf Filter", a gutter protection product. Reserve early if you want to attend.

Can you provide a link to this bid. When I searched the purchasing dept active bids page I did not find a residential dorm project on the active list.

I attended the NIT game at Northwestern last night. The Nerds of NU had a good student section last night and their entire sports complex is very much off campus. The distance from their campus to the sports complex on Central Street is equivalent to the distance between Rt8 and S. Main street in Akron. http://maps.northwestern.edu/#latlngz=42.062%2C-87.679%2C14

Check out the MAC first team on this trash site. The choice for center is an all-time classic. http://www.collegesportsmadness.com/article/3376

Haven of Rest does great work but is in an unfortunate location. The north side of University Park has rhe same issues with street drug use, panhandling and minor crimes. It's not the Haven's fault but the problem has spread from Grace Park to cover the entire area north of Market Street.

1. Summa does not own a singe lot within those boundaries. All are owned by the City of Akron except for the former Martin Chevy lot which I believe was purchsed by either the city or UPA. 2. The Haven of Rest is several blocks to the west of those boundaries. 3. UPA has this area targeted for a mix of business, retail and apartment development. No chance of an arena on this spot when the Mayor prefers the Mayflower block on Main St.

Charlie has not looked well the last few weeks. He looked very lathargic when he visited the JAR. He was somewhat more animated when they honored Wally Szczerbiak at the Can't game on Tuesday. He is now in the hospital. He will not coach this weekend in Buffalo http://www.muredhawks.com/sports/m-baskbl/.../022412aab.html

I'm in. If you are going the team is staying at the Tulsa Southern Hills Marriott. The team is chartering a plane to Tulsa.

Picked this off the CMU fan board. "I've been suspicious of the MAC office for some time now. Six Ohio teams, offices located in Ohio. Championship formats for mbask, wbask, baseball always held in Ohio. Let's just admit it. The state of Ohio runs the league and they will always get the breaks. How do we get 3 suspended while OHIO loses one. Did all three of our girls fight with the same OHIO player? I doubt that."

http://www.themorningsun.com/articles/2012...e5648128652.txt

Dave Carducci of the Record-Courier posted this article for tomorrow's (1/11/12) paper. He reports on a new way of assigning officials for B1G and MAC games. http://www.recordpub.com/news/sports_article/5144438

Michael will continue his sports journalism career on January 9th as a full-time reporter in the Akron Beacon Journal Sports Department. He was selected to replace the retiring Tom Gaffney in the department. His primary focus will be on high school sports but I hope they assign some UA stories to Michael, especially about the soccer programs where he has done great work. Expect to continue to see Tom Gaffney around the campus since he will be working part-time as a stringer for the Beacon and other out-of-town papers wanting coverage in the Akron area.

The UA Board of Trustees, the President and the Athletic Director need to revisit their error in declining to serve beer at the Infocision Stadium concession stands. I would also suggest that it is time to add the beverage to all of the unviersity sports venue concession stands. Bowling Green has added the beverage. Cleveland state has sold it at their basketball games. This article below shows the false fears that leads UA to turn down a large revenue stream. http://dailymail.com/Sports/WVUSports/201111300228

In my opinion this trip was a first class efffort by the Athletic Development Office. Erin did a great job organizing. Her efforts, along with Anthony and Katie as hosts on the trip, were appreciated. I heard from several other travelers that they thought that the cost was a bargain. Bus transportation, a restaurant meal, $27 game ticket, free refresments and snacks (including multiple beer choices in unlimited supply) for $65 was a steal in my opinion. The Development Office has been asked if they planned on hosting any future bus trips. If you want to pass on your comments and/or suggestions, post your comments here and also forward them to George Van Horne III at ghvanhorne@uakron.edu

It is a mistake by the MAC Basketball staff. Ricky Stokes told me it was found by the KD when the preliminary conference schedule was produced but they could not reverse the Can't State/AU dates due to a another use of the MACC. I asked if we would get two final season games in the JAR for March 2013 and 2014. He said his type of correction was under consideration.

AP Newswire 2:30pm, 11/1/11..PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A person familiar with the decision says the Big East will invite Boise State, Navy and Air Force for football only and SMU, Houston and Central Florida for all sports.The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the conference was not ready to announce which schools its members had voted Tuesday to extend invitations to in the upcoming days.Commissioner John Marinatto declined to give specifics of the Big East's plan after meeting with the league's presidents at a Philadelphia hotel. He did say he expected the schools to accept.He acknowledged the league is moving west and reiterated that Syracuse, Pittsburgh and West Virginia will not be allowed to leave for their new conferences until July 2014...