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Matt Poe

Opinion: What Peyton Manning left behind

Matt Poe March 8, 2016

The inevitable has finally arrived, served hot on a silver platter by Father Time. Peyton Manning has finally decided to call it a career, 18 long seasons in the NFL for number 18. Aside from hoisting...

Ty Sugick

Opinion: The focus of the Browns quarterback watch

Ty Sugick February 23, 2016

The NFL Combine activities have taken off, inviting more than 300 of the best college football players. The players are not only competing for their dreams of putting on an NFL uniform, some are competing...

Matt Poe

Opinion: Time to give up on Johnny Football

Matt Poe February 9, 2016

Throughout the state, and especially here in Northeast Ohio, it won’t take you long to find someone wearing Johnny Manziel gear: stroll through just about any campus for 15 minutes and you’ll eventually...

Guest Column: Campuses must counter assaults on game days

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette February 2, 2016

Jason Lindo, an economics professor at Texas A&M University, had a hunch about campus sexual assaults at Division I football schools and whether their rates were affected by big-game days. So he and...

April Goss, ex-kicker for the Kent State football team, Wednesday Sept. 16, 2015. 

Former Kent State kicker April Goss awarded postgraduate scholarship

Dan Armelli January 26, 2016

Former Kent State football player April Goss will receive a postgraduate scholarship by the Northeastern Ohio Chapter of the National Football Foundation.Goss walked onto the football team as a kicker...

Ty Sugick

The famous Jameis payout

Ty Sugick January 26, 2016

News broke on Monday afternoon that Florida State University agreed to pay out $950,000 to Erica Kinsman, the woman who accused former Seminoles football star Jameis Winston of sexual assault. Now why...

Richie Mulhall is a junior multimedia news major. Contact him at rmulhal1@kent.edu.

Opinion: Hiring Jackson is the smartest move made by the Browns in a long time

Richie Mulhall January 18, 2016

Much to the chagrin of desperate Cleveland sports fans everywhere, it’s safe to say the era of Johnny Manziel in Cleveland is officially over. As if it ever began in the first place.While Manziel’s...

“Granny,” 77, hands out licorice sticks to members of the Kent football team as they leave the field after practice on Oct. 7, 2015.

Pull, Peel, Play: ‘Licorice Lady’ inspires Flashes football team

Ian Flickinger December 8, 2015

College football is teeming with traditions that supposedly add to a team’s good fortune.  Folkloric rituals like Clemson’s run down “The Hill”; Ohio State’s recently-axed Mirror Lake jump;...

Jacob Ruffo is a junior journalism major and columnist for The Kent Stater. Contact him at jruffo@kent.edu

Opinion: Don’t feel bad for Browns fans

Jacob Ruffo December 2, 2015

The Cleveland Browns turned a tie game, with a chance to kick a game winning field goal, as time expired into a loss in regulation. The kick was blocked and returned for a touchdown.“Ugh, poor Browns...

Senior running back Trayion Durham leaps over a CMU defender during a game versus Central Michigan University on Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2015.

Flashes comeback comes up short, lose to CMU 27-13

Stephen Means November 18, 2015

Kent State (3-8, 2-5 Mid-American Conference) could not overcome a 17-0 deficit in the first quarter, falling to Central Michigan (6-5, 5-2 MAC), 27-13.The Flashes fought back in the second quarter to...

Football team faces CMU on Senior Night

Stephen Means II November 17, 2015

Kent State (3-7, 2-4 Mid-American Conference) will host its final home game of the year against Central Michigan University (5-5, 4-2 MAC) on Senior Night.“(They’re a) tough, hard-nosed football team,”...

Head coach Paul Haynes walks off the field with his players after losing to the University at Buffalo on Thursday Nov. 5, 2015. The Flashes lost 18-17.

Ohio University shuts out Flashes in 27-0 loss

Stephen Means II November 11, 2015

Kent State's football team (3-7, 2-4 Mid-American Conference) was held to only 191 yards of total offense in a 27-0 shutout loss to Ohio University (6-4, 3-3 MAC)."We have to be able to put points on the...