Wednesday, December 5, 2012
After losing to Northern Illinois in the MAC Championship, Kent State will play in the GoDaddy.com Bowl on Jan. 6 in Mobile, Alabama.
Get Twinsburg news first! Click Here to sign up for Twinsburg Patch's free e-mail newsletter! It was a bitter-sweet ending to a dream season for the Kent State Golden Flashes football team this weekend. With a chance at the BCS Orange Bowl, the Flashes lost a gut-wrenching, double-overtime battle to Northern Illinois (12-1, 8-0) on Friday night 44-37 in the MAC Championship game. After the dust settled and the bowl games were selected, Northern Illinois will face Florida State in the Orange Bowl. But Kent State will have its first bowl game in 40 years as they star in the GoDaddy.com Bowl facing the Arkansas State Red Wolves. Arkansas State (9-3, 7-1) was the Sun Belt Conference champion this season. "The players and coaches in our locker …
Friday, November 30, 2012
Just hundreds left locally and online as of Thursday.
If you don't have a ticket by now, your chances are slim of watching in person as Kent State University battles Northern Illinois in the 2012 Mid-American Conference Championship game at Detroit's Ford Field. The deadline to order tickets through Kent State's ticket office was 4:30 p.m. Thursday. Kent State spokesperson Bob Burford said there were just a few hundred of the university's tickets for the game left as of noon Thursday. "Kent State’s ticket allotment for the Friday game was 3,000," Burford said. As of midday Thursday there were less than 200 tickets available for the game on StubHub.com. Ford Field has a seating capacity of 65,000, but it's likely only a few thousand lucky, local fans will actually watch the game from inside …
Chris Humphrey, a standout for the Solon Comets, is contributing to the Kent State Golden Flashes football team as a sophomore wide receiver and special teams player.
Chris Humphrey, a former star for the Solon Comets football team, is now a solid contributor as a sophomore on the Kent State Golden Flashes football team. The Flashes, if you haven't heard, are 11-1 and may be BCS bound if they defeat Northern Illinois Friday night in the MAC Championship game and get some help. At Solon High School, Humphrey was a standout jack-of-all-trades for the Comets. He's continuing in that trend at Kent State, playing as a wide receiver and contributing on special teams. Humphrey has played in all 12 games for the Flashes, and is the team's fourth leading receiver with 20 catches for 261 yards. His best game of the season was against Ball State, when Humphrey caught 3 balls for 63 yards. He has also recorded 11 …
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Rally on campus, flags downtown to cheer on team as they head to Detroit for MAC Championship game
The Kent community is preparing to send off the Kent State University Golden Flashes in style as the football team heads to Detroit this week for the 2012 Mid-American Conference Championship game against Northern Illinois Friday. The university is hosting a rally for the team on campus at the MACC starting at 9 a.m. Thursday. The rally will feature Kent State head football coach Darrell Hazell and a few members of the team, who will speak to the crowd, before loading the buses and heading off to Detroit. Doors open 30 minutes prior to the start of the program, and fans can get their official Kent State postseason rally towels at entrances into the gym. At that time, fans can get an inside look at this historic season with the “One Team, …
Saturday, November 17, 2012
As a Kent State alumn, I'm proud of my Golden Flashes football team. But I'm very nervous.
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
As a Kent State alumn, I'm proud of my Golden Flashes football team. But I'm very nervous.
This may be the first time I've shared my thoughts and opinions in a post. But let's be real; this is a monumental occasion. For the first time in school history (OK, since 1973, but it really feels like it) the Kent State Golden Flashes football team was ranked in the Top 25 AP Poll. I graduated from Kent State in 2010, so I have a valid opinion. Even before my years at KSU I followed the Flashes. In all those years, they were dreadful. During my time as a journalism major at Kent, I covered the team as a play-by-play announcer. I can honestly say the most exciting part of doing that was the fact I got to see Ohio State play. (Yeah, the Bucks crushed Kent State). The first-ever game I went to was my freshman year when Minnesota, a Big Ten…
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
The board of trustees held an informal meeting to discuss the future at the new Twinsburg Regional Academic Center.
Kent State University President Lester Lefton thinks the university has the product in place, now he wants to focus on how to attract even more students to it. “We have to distinguish ourselves in unique ways,” Lefton said Tuesday, addressing the university's Board of Trustees at the new Twinsburg Regional Academic Center. “You can create product all day long but that’s not gonna’ convince people,” Lefton said. “They’ve got to believe in you.” The board of trustees held an informal meeting to discuss visions for the university's future and ways to establish these ideas. Lefton said creating a successful sports program mixed with new developments in education and facilities will propel the university into the next decade. Provost Todd …
Alex rDDLE
1:53 pm on Wednesday, December 5, 2012
I knew where the MAC championship was going to be played, and I am a Kent State student who lives in Kent. Watch what you say, Cooper. -Alex Riddle more ›