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Thursday, November 29, 2012

Send off For Golden Flashes Football Team Thursday

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, …

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Kent State University (in Kent Patch), Tree City Coffee & Pastry (in Kent Patch), and Snapshot: Flags Represent Kent's International Connections (in Kent Patch)

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Finally, My Golden Flashes Crack the Top 25

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…

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Kent State University-Geauga Campus Twinsburg Academic Center

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 ›

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