The University of Akron’s football head coach, Tom Arth, and men’s golf coach, David Trainor, were featured guests recently on Zips LIVE, a weekly hour-long radio show that covers Zips Athletics.
Airing...
By Jordyn Etling, Sports Editor
• September 18, 2018
The Akron Zips football team played Big 10 team Northwestern on Sept. 15, 2018, at Ryan Field in Evanston, Ill.
Leading up to the game, several online sources gave predictions that said Akron would...
By Robert Corts, Sports Contributor
• December 3, 2017
The Mid-American Conference Championship game played on Saturday, Dec. 2 at Ford Field was a season rematch between The University of Akron and the University of Toledo. Unfortunately for the Zips, they...
By Robert Corts, Sports Contributor
• November 22, 2017
The University of Akron football team walked out of InfoCision Stadium on Tuesday night as the Mid-American Conference East Champions following their 24-14 triumph over school rivals Kent State.
Freshman...
A rivalry 94 years in the making, on Nov. 21, The University of Akron and Kent State University will renew their football rivalry in the 60th meeting between the two schools.
The first contest between...
The University of Akron men’s football team looks to finish the regular season at .500 and become eligible to play in a postseason Bowl Game for the second straight season when the team travels south...
The University of Akron football team was able to defeat the Ball State Cardinals 35-25 on Saturday, with a huge second-half rally at Scheumann Stadium.
The Zips’ record now improves to 5-3 overall,...
The University of Akron football team fell to the Wisconsin Badgers on Saturday, Sept. 10, by a score of 54-10 in Madison, Wisconsin.
This loss moved the Zips to 1-1 for the season, snapping UA’s...
The University of Akron Zips’ football team outscored Virginia Military Institute 47-24 in the season opener Saturday evening at Infocision Stadium. The Zips seemed to pick up where they left off last...
Akron wide receiver Andrew Pratt is currently recovering after his housemate mistook him for a burglar and shot him in the stomach on March 19.
Although he is taking time off from classes, the senior...
Senior linebacker Jatavis Brown was named Mid-American Conference (MAC) Defensive Player of the Year on Wednesday, Dec. 2.
Brown has started all 12 games this year and led the Zips with 108 tackles,...
The first female to score points in an NCAA Division I-A football game shared the same fate as many other female college students: she was raped.
On Tuesday, April 21, Katie Hnida came to UA to tell...
In the final week of the Capital One Mascot Challenge Zippy lost to Buzz, the mascot from Georgia Tech and fell to her lowest seating in the tournament, 6th place.
The tournament has now moved on to...
It’s homecoming at The University of Akron, and the five days from Tuesday, Sept. 30 to Saturday, Oct. 4 brings UA students a promise to bring plenty of fun festivities.
David Vale,...
Written by: DJ Johnson
This is not an article preaching at you to attend a football game this fall.
It is not an attempt to claim that a program that has struggled for the past two seasons is now worth...
Written by: Marcus Nicholson
Three weeks later, many in the University of Akron community are still wondering about the odd timing of the August 30th power outage.
Many saw it as a coincidence that the...
As the spring semester gets into full swing, the weather is getting bitter and tank tops, shorts and flip-flops are replaced by hoodies, sweatpants and Ugg boots.
And just like the nice weather, the NFL football season is coming to a drastic close. In a season full of record-breaking quarterback play, none has made more of a splash than Tim Tebow.
As a loyal ESPN watcher, no quarterback in the NFL has made more news since week six than Tebow. After putting up an 8-5 record as a starting quarterback for a team that was 1-4 before his first start, winning the AFC West and winning a playoff game, many could say that he has proved himself worthy of being able to play the position. That issue is still up for debate.
After a 2-22 overall record in two seasons at The University of Akron, Director of Athletics Tom Wistrcill announced Saturday that Rob Ianello will not return as head coach of the football team.
