Zips sports news, features and notes
- UA athletes fail to qualify
- UA’s Alexis Cooks wins discus with school-record throw
- Seven KSU baseball players earn All-MAC honors
- Marla Ridenour: From walk-on to champion: UA’s Alex McCune finds his niche
- KSU’s Jennifer Ha struggles to 79 in first round of NCAA Women’s Golf Championships
- 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
Game notes - Akron at Eastern Michigan
Football
Apparently, oddsmakers were not very impressed with Akron's 36-13 win over VMI.
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LIVE: No. 4 Akron defeats Ohio State 3-1 in men's soccer
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The Ohio State University vs. The University of Akron
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Zips get first win
Football
Akron racked up 534 yards of offense with the help of two emerging skill position players.
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Akron vs. VMI - Game notes
Football
No one wants to say it, but if Akron loses tomorrow at home against VMI, Zips fans could be looking at an oh-fer season.
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Hazime tears ACL, out for senior season
Football
Senior defensive lineman Hasan Hazime tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his knee in last week's loss to Cincinnati, and he will miss the rest of the season.
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Hixon makes circus catch on Monday Night Football
Football
Congrats to Domenik Hixon, one of the all-around best human beings to put on a Zips jersey, for this wild catch on the national stage last night:
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LIVE: No. 4 Akron men's soccer defeats Cal Poly 1-0
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Sunday night men's college soccer match at FirstEnergy Stadium-Cub Cadet Field ... final match of the University of Akron Tournament
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Akron vs. Cincinnati - Game notes
Football
These first three games ... We knew they would be bad. This bad? Probably the most pessimistic among us predicted more competitive games.
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Zips are 35-point underdogs at Cincinnati
Football
Akron is expected to lose by five touchdowns (and the subsequent XPs) on Saturday at Cincinnati.
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Zips get creamed again
Football
Akron did not stand a chance against Temple's roster of bigger, faster, more athletic and better prepared players.
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Akron vs. Temple - Pregame notes
Football
Akron is a team "on the uprise," according to Temple center John Palumbo.
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2011-12 basketball schedule released
Men's basketball
My sincerest apologies for writing about football, instead of futbol or men's basketball, the past week.
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The day after
Football
Here are some thoughts that have come to me since Saturday's beatdown...
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Zips men's soccer team secures overtime win
Junior Scott Caldwell and sophomore Darren Mattocks each scored a goal to guide the No. 2 ranked University of Akron men's soccer team to a 2-1 overtime victory against host Cal State Northridge on Saturday night at Matador Soccer Field.
Caldwell's goal came in the 106th minute following a pass from freshman DeAndre Yedlin.
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Akron plays Fullerton to 0-0 draw in men's soccer
The University of Akron men's soccer team opened the Cal State Northridge Labor Day Classic with a 0-0 draw Thursday night against Cal State Fullerton. The Zips and Titans both have 1-0-1 records.
UA, ranked No. 2 in the country in the NSCAA poll, will play host Northridge at 10 p.m. Saturday night.
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