Archive for August, 2011
Tuesday, August 30th, 2011
Camp is over, school is in session, and football is in the air. Youngstown State will start the 2011 season on the road at East Lansing to face off against the #17 ranked Michigan State Spartans. The game is set for a 7:30 p.m. kickoff and will be televised on ...
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Sunday, August 28th, 2011
On what has become an annual gathering at Eastwood Field, Baseball Brawl, the Mahoning Valley Scrappers rose to the challenge and body slammed the Jamestown Jammers. The opportunistic Scrappers racked up nine hits and outscored the Jammers 9-2 in front of a great Sunday crowd of 3,550.
Jamestown got on the ...
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Sunday, August 28th, 2011
Youngstown State Head Football Coach Eric Wolford announced to the Penguins on Saturday morning that senior linebacker John Sasson (Pittsburgh, Pa.), senior defensive tackle Andrew Johnson (Detroit, Mich.), junior tailback Jamaine Cook (Cleveland, Ohio) and sophomore quarterback Kurt Hess (Dayton, Ohio) have been selected as team captains for the 2011 ...
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Saturday, August 20th, 2011
The Youngstown Phantoms have scheduled five preseason games as they prepare for Youngstown’s third season in the United States Hockey League. The Phantoms will visit Team USA and Muskegon before heading out to Sioux City, Iowa for the 2011 USHL Fall Classic.
The Phantoms first two exhibition games will take place ...
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Saturday, August 20th, 2011
On Friday, August 12, Dannie Williams put his name on a bigger map, a national map. Williams defeated Antonio Cervantes on ESPN Friday Night Fights with an impressive four-round performance ending with a resounding TKO. The momentum and attention are both a little stronger after the victory, Williams' seventh straight.
"We ...
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Friday, August 19th, 2011
Former Youngstown State star Donald Jones is settling in nicely with the Buffalo Bills. Jones is scorching up the depth charts and will see ample playing time in Buffalo this season. I will be featuring Jones every week during the NFL season to recap what went right in the games, ...
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Friday, August 19th, 2011
The first-ever Southside Boxing Club golf outing was held August 14th at Bedford Trails. Jack Loew (above) was pleased with the outing and said that next year it will be even bigger and better than it was this time.
"It was a great day", commented Loew. "All of the golfers had ...
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Friday, August 19th, 2011
Youngstown State's seventh-year men's basketball Head Coach Jerry Slocum announced his team's 29-game 2011-12 schedule which features 13 home games, match ups against three NCAA Tournament participants, a Big Ten opponent and two contests against the two-time national runners-up.
"This is a very competitive schedule for our program this year," Slocum ...
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