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Analyzing tonight's Akron-Gonzaga game

March 19, 2009

Gonzaga coach Mark Few paid the Akron Zips the highest compliment when he said: "'I don't think, in 20 years of watching game tape, I have seen a team that plays that hard." This could be the proverbial blow-smoke-up-the-other-team's-butt pregame stuff, but basketball coaches tend to be pretty honest. And Few is right. The Zips [...]

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More on the Zips vs. Gonzaga as March Madness approaches

March 19, 2009

I'll offer my prediction here in a couple hours on tonight's Akron-Gonzaga game. But first here's a sampling of what folks are writing and saying about tonight's game.
Gonzaga might actually be feeling a little pressure tonight. Bud Withers of the Seattle Times opines of the Zags that "Early in a decade of NCAA appearances, the [...]

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Nothing against the Zips …

March 18, 2009

This guy says he means no disrespect to the Zips — while he tears them into little shreds of tire scraps.

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Some more on the Zips as they head to Portland

March 17, 2009

 
Catching up on some leftover stuff from visiting the Akron Zips practice on Monday:
–Humpty Hitchens said his ankle feels much better. He did not practice Monday, but coach Keith Dambrot said that was just to take care of him. Hitchens said he should be fine on Thursday. "What I learned after that Tournament game," Dambrot [...]

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The Zips get a 13 seed

March 15, 2009

 The first time I met Mack Rhoades, he mused about whether the Akron Zips could become the Gonzaga of the Midwest. A small school that consistently builds a winning basketball team, that reaches the NCAA Tournament and wins some games in that tournament.
Well, now Akron gets to prove it – against the potential role model. [...]

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The Zips make the tournament, now where will they go?

March 15, 2009

This is a challenging day. I must try to figure where the Akron Zips might play in the NCAA tournament while trying to get over the shock that the parish where I grew up – St. James in Lakewood – is closing. It kind of takes a piece of yourself away from you. I reserve [...]

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Ohio State 3, Akron 2 — can anyone watch?

September 8, 2007

So you check online and see that Akron is up 2-0 over Ohio State in the first half, and you start to channel flip to see the game. At halftime, the score is 3-2, which allows you to dream — what an upset this would be!
So you go to watch. Alas, the Big Ten network is [...]

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