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Coach Sean Lewis posted this statement urging the MAC to reconsider the postponement of the fall football season to the spring, Sept. 17.

Kent State football players push for fall season

Nicholas Pedone Sports reporter September 19, 2020

When Kent State’s football team became one of the first Division I programs to cancel their spring practices out of precaution for the COVID-19 pandemic, uncertainty loomed around Dix Stadium.“The...

Men’s basketball joins voter registration initiative

Kathryn Rajnicek Sports reporter September 18, 2020

Every player on Kent State’s men’s basketball team is now registered to vote.  “The National Association of Basketball Coaches put together an initiative called the ALL IN Challenge to get every...

Young Flashes prepare for an unusual basketball season

Sean Blevins Sports reporter September 17, 2020

Freshmen student-athletes have to deal with circumstances that no other incoming class has had to deal with. They are essentially guinea pigs for the future of college sports. The uncertainty of this...

Big Ten

Big Ten changes course, aims for October start to football

Ralph D. Russo, AP September 16, 2020

Big Ten is going to give fall football a shot after all.Less than five weeks after pushing football and other fall sports to spring in the name of player safety during the pandemic, the conference changed...

Browns v Ravens

Jackson throws 3 TD passes for Ravens in 38-6 rout of Browns

David Ginsburg, AP September 13, 2020

BALTIMORE (AP) — Looking every bit like the reigning NFL MVP, Lamar Jackson threw for 275 yards and three touchdowns to help the Baltimore Ravens beat the Browns 38-6 Sunday, ruining Kevin Stefanski's...

Big Ten

AP Source: Big Ten presidents to reconsider fall football

Ralph D. Russo, AP September 13, 2020

Big Ten football might be making a comeback.Big Ten university presidents will meet Sunday to hear a presentation about playing a fall football season after all -- maybe as soon as mid-October -- amid...

Kent State football players sit in the stands, admiring the rings. Many appear not be wearing a mask. 

Video shows Kent State football players without masks during on-campus bowl ring distribution

Dante Centofanti Reporter August 31, 2020

For the first time in the 99-year history of the program, members of the Kent State football team received rings Aug. 17 for winning a bowl game. A video posted to the Kent State football Twitter account...

Fox says Brennaman won’t announce NFL games after slur

AP August 20, 2020

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Thom Brennaman will not be calling NFL games on Fox after using an anti-gay slur on air during a Cincinnati Reds broadcast.Fox Sports issued a statement Thursday that said "we are...

Kent State football coach Sean Lewis.

Control what you can: Lewis talks about Kent State football amid coronavirus cancellation

Ben Pagani, TV2 Sports August 11, 2020

Sean Lewis, Kent State’s football coach, is sticking to a simple idea: control what he can control.Three days after the Mid-American Conference (MAC) postponed its fall season, Lewis spoke to the media...

A fall without MACtion: Mid-American Conference votes to cancel fall sports season, hopes to compete in spring

Owen MacMillan, reporter August 8, 2020

Kent State will not play any sports this fall season, as the Mid-American Conference became the first Division I athletics conference to completely postpone sports, following a Saturday morning vote.With...

Leah Pasqualetti and her coach Mike Auble after she broke the pole vault record of the Stars and Stripes Big Red Barn Meet in Menifee, California. June, 2020.

Record breaking pole vaulter Leah Pasqualetti to attend Kent State

Jessica Urig Reporter July 8, 2020

Joining the Kent State Track and Field team this year is Leah Pasqualetti, the No. 1 pole vault recruit in the class of 2020.“I get to continue doing what I love for at least four more years, It still...

The Kent State football schedule. The first game is Sep. 5 at Penn State University. Photo courtesy of Kent State Athletics. 

Kent State football team continues return to campus amid COVID-19 pandemic

Gina ButkovichReporter July 8, 2020

Editor's Note: As of Friday July 10, the scheduled start of full squad workouts on Monday has been pushed back due to the season opener at Penn State being canceled. Players will not be returning to campus...

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