Archive for May, 2011
Friday, May 6th, 2011
Michigan State will kick off the 2011 football season against Youngstown State on Friday, Sept. 2 at 7:30 p.m. EDT in Spartan Stadium. The 2011 season and home opener will be televised nationally by the Big Ten Network. Michigan State’s first-ever meeting against the Penguins was originally scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 3.
It marks ...
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Friday, May 6th, 2011
Jerry Slocum is a winner. His record speaks for itself and he is one of just 17 active NCAA men's basketball coaches to have reached the 600 win mark. The 12th head coach in Youngstown State Men's basketball history had a lot of success at Gannon and Geneva, which prompts ...
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Friday, May 6th, 2011
Sophomore Vicky Rumph was named to the Capital One/CoSIDA Academic All-District IV Softball First-Team and junior Jordan Ingalls was a third-team selection, the College Sports Information Directors of America announced on Thursday.
Rumph is the first softball player in school history to earn first-team honors, and 2011 is the first time in ...
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Friday, May 6th, 2011
Several Youngstown State University student athletes have recently been recognized nationally for their excellence in the classroom.
The Youngstown State football team had four former student-athletes named to the 2011 National Football Foundation Hampshire Honor Society, the organization announced on Wednesday. Stephen Blose (Erie, Pa.), Kyle Banna (Canfield, Ohio), Luke Matelan ...
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Monday, May 2nd, 2011
You will not meet a more personable group than the Youngstown State University Women's Basketball Coaching Staff. They are all very genuine, real, and fun people to talk with. John Vogel, who handles the women's basketball program from a sports information director position was gracious enough to tape the roundtable ...
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Monday, May 2nd, 2011
For a guy who was supposed to light the world on fire and set home run records to rattle the history of Pittsburgh Sports, Pedro Alvarez sure has been a disappointment so far. Through Sunday's 8-4 win over the Colorado Rockies, Alvarez is batting .213, which was bolstered by two ...
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