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From the monthly archives:

January 2008

Good stories on Hixon, Blackburn

January 31, 2008

Football
The Buchtelite's Adam Ferrise wrote excellent stories about how Chase Blackburn and Domenik Hixon's careers took them to the Super Bowl.
Akron almost overlooked Hixon in the recruiting process. Blackburn filled in for the Giants after injuries. Here's another story about their careers in general.

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News clips from the game

January 31, 2008

Men's basketball
In today's newspapers…
Plain Dealer
Akron Beacon Journal
Daily Collegian — Darryl Roberts mentions some bad blood between himself and toledo.
Toledo Blade
— Next up for the Rockets is a home game against Kent State, Saturday at noon.
Football
Remember to tune into Joe Dunn's recruiting show tonight at 8 p.m. on 1350 AM.
His guests will include J.D. Brookhart [...]

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Akron vs. Toledo – Running game notes

January 30, 2008

Men's basketball
Keep refreshing your browser every few minutes…
Jeremiah Wood and Cedrick Middleton are dressed but limping. Jimmy Conyers is in uniform, too. SID Gregg Bach called them each "game-time decisions."
UT senior guard Kashif Payne left the team for personal reasons early in the season. My question is whether "betting on games" qualifies in that category. [...]

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Wood might sit against Toledo

January 30, 2008

Men's basketball
Coaches might limit Jeremiah Wood's playing time tonight because of a knee sprain, the ABJ's Tom Gaffney reports.
Gaffney goes on to assess the problems the team has faced the past two games.
I think it's time to see more Darryl Roberts and Brett McKnight. McKnight, in particular, could become a bigger contributor with more playing [...]

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Dambrot's press conference

January 29, 2008

Men's basketball

Keith Dambrot's press conference was more of the same:
We need to play harder.
We need to play better defense.
We miss Romeo and Dru.
Blah.

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Who is Toledo?

January 29, 2008

Men's basketball
The Rockets have the odd position of featuring the league's highest scorer, yet being the second-lowest scoring team.
Tyrone Kent scores 18.3 points per game — almost two points more than the MAC's next best. The 6-foot-5 swingman does a lot of it from long range. He leads Nick Dials by one for the league's [...]

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Hoban safety commits to Zips

January 29, 2008

Football
As a local three-star player and son of Akron's defensive coordinator, Will Fleming was one of the most interesting stories of the recruiting season.
The plot thickened when Hawaii and Boise State offered Fleming a scholarship from across the country.
In the end, Fleming chose to stay home and play for his father, Jim Fleming.
"My dad was [...]

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Akron @ Central Michigan – Running game notes

January 26, 2008

Men's basketball
Keep refreshing your browser…
The pregame hosts kept talking about the game being played at Rose Arena, which sounds a lot like Rhodes Arena. It had me wondering if these guys knew what they were talking about, but they did.
I was hoping Michael Reghi would announce the game. My wish was granted.
Isn't it soothing to [...]

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UA hires new women's soccer coach

January 26, 2008

Women's soccer
Chris Pfau, who resurrected Evansville's program and took Princeton to the Final Four as an assistant, will take over as head coach at Akron.
Mack Rhoades succeeded once again in hiring a man who has been a winner at the same level as a head coach. I'm not sure how he does it.
Men's basketball
I plan [...]

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Who is Central Michigan?

January 26, 2008

Men's basketball
It should be interesting to watch how Akron responds from the emotional loss at Kent State.
Central Michigan is more than fodder. The Chippewas are a high-scoring, turnover-forcing team.
That's exactly how they blew out Michigan at Ann Arbor — scoring 78 points and forcing 23 screw-ups.
Giordan Watson was in the middle of that, scoring 22 [...]

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