Zips sports news, features and notes
- Zips notebook: Quincy Diggs back in school; football player arrested
- College baseball/Kent State 4, Akron 1: Flashes top Zips, get help from Bowling Green to win MAC title, earn top seed in tournament
- On the Record — May 18
- College baseball/Kent State 4, Akron 3: Flashes muster enough energy to top Zips, stay alive for top seed in MAC Tournament
- Kent State golf in fifth after two rounds of NCAA Regional
- Kent State-Akron in-game updates: Kent State wins 4-3
- Kent State 5, Akron 4 in 17 innings: Diamond Classic turns into real gem
- On the record: Ohio State, UA and KSU college roundup and recruiting news
- On the Record — May 14
- College sports — May 12
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Plain Dealer columnist Bill Livingston wrote about the Kent State/Northern Illinois game for today's paper.
In the column, he tries to give the differences between Kent and Akron. He makes some good points, but I don't think he gives the Zips enough credit for their road wins. An "easily flustered team" doesn't have a winning road record, considering who the Zips played.
His main point is a good one, and one often stated by the Nature Boy Ric Flair: To be the man, you have to beat the man. Based on history, Kent State is definitely the man.
Unfortunately for Livingston, Terry Pluto outwrote him. Pluto chronicled Kent State's three-year path from misery to success. He said Kent coach Jim Christian could be hired away by a bigger school. He was a finalist for the UMass job a year ago.
