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The Kent State football team defeated Army, 39-17, at the 2014 Homecoming game on October 18. 

KSU Athletics, third-party vendors purchase of football tickets meets NCAA membership requirement

Richie Mulhall April 26, 2015

This past February, athletic director Joel Nielsen, in accordance with other athletic department staff and President Beverly Warren, sent the Football Ticket Attendance and Revenue Audit to the NCAA confirming...

Editorial cartoon: March Madness

Courtesy of Tribune Content Agency. Photo by Drew Sheneman.

UPDATED: Three track and field athletes place in top 10 in NCAA Championships

Andrew Bugel March 14, 2015

Kent State sent four athletes from the track and field program to compete in the NCAA Indoor Championships in Arkansas this weekend; three of those four athletes who qualified competed on Friday.Junior...

Kent State wrestler tries for third MAC title at championships

Zac Sommer March 8, 2015

Kent State junior Ian Miller looks to win his third Mid-American Conference title after winning both matches Saturday at the MAC Championships.Miller (157) completed six takedowns in his quarterfinal match...

Maurice Clarett holds a press conference prior to his speech in the Kent State Ballroom on Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2015. The former Ohio State football player spoke about his troubled past, run-in with the law, and how students should avoid making his mistakes.

Youngstown Boy’s second chances ‘build better student athletes’

Richie Mulhall February 25, 2015

Former Ohio State football standout Maurice Clarett visits Kent State to share his story and steer students down the right path.You see it in the news all the time.Incredibly talented college football...

Kent State seeks consulting firm’s aid to evaluate athletic program

Richie Mulhall January 21, 2015

As the ever-changing landscape of Division I collegiate athletics continues to evolve, Kent State wants to see how it matches up to the competition, both on and off the field.In order to do this, the university...

Kent State's Tyler Small tries to take down Ohio's Joel Shump during their wrestling meet in the M.A.C. Center on Friday, Jan. 16, 2015.

Wrestling starts slow, falls to Edinboro

Quentin Smith January 19, 2015

The road struggles continued Sunday for the Kent State wrestling team, as they suffered a 27-12 loss to the 15th-ranked Edinboro Fighting Scots.The Flashes got off to a slow start in the meet when junior...

Cross country wraps up season at Great Lakes Regional

Richie Mulhall November 15, 2014

Women's ResultsMen's ResultsThe Kent State cross-country team concluded its season at the 2014 NCAA Great Lakes Regional, hosted by the University of Wisconsin, in Madison, Wisconsin on Friday. Great...

NCAA lifts Penn State’s postseason ban for Sandusky scandal, restores scholarships in 2015

Associated Press September 8, 2014

Penn State is back in the bowl business.The NCAA on Monday lifted the on-the-field sanctions placed on the Penn State football team for the Jerry Sandusky scandal, including immediately eliminating the...

Guest Column: Labor turmoil in college athletics

Dan Thomasson March 31, 2014

Bob was a dirt-poor kid from Pensacola, Fla., when he won a scholarship for football at a Division One school in Mississippi. He had grown up in the kind of poverty most of us can hardly imagine, and the...