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Team 109 opens season at Louisiana as part of MAC/Sun Belt Challenge
The Kent State men’s basketball teams opens the season Monday night at Louisiana as part of the MAC/Sun Belt Challenge, as it’s opening day for Division I College Basketball around the country. The Flashes return a mix of returners and talented newcomers in 2024-2025. The Flashes have high hopes and expectations as always, picked third…
GFR Reflection: Kent State loses “Culture” game to EMU
Kent State welcomed in the Eastern Michigan Eagles for Homecoming 2024 Saturday in what ended up being a rainy, wet and sloppy game in the second half. And just like the Kent State hopes to pull an upset over Chris Creighton’s Eagles Saturday, it, and the rain washed away as the afternoon turned into night,…
GFR Friday FLASHback Volume 4: Flashes take down Army on Homecoming
Today on our GFR FLASHback Friday we are taking it back ten years to Homecoming 2014, on October 18, 2014. In the second year of the Paul Haynes era the Flashes would finish just 2-9 overall and 1-6 in the MAC but they got some homecoming magic with a win over Army 39-17. Quarterback Colin…
GFR Reflection: Flashes waste opportunity
Let’s tell it like it is. The Kent State football program was out played, out coached, out competed, out toughed and ultimately beaten on the scoreboard against FCS St. Francis (PA) Saturday in the home opener at Dix Stadium by a score of 23-17 in a game that didn’t even feel that close. It was…
GFR FLASHback Friday Volume 1: Kent State stuns the Cyclones
Golden Flash Report will be throwing it back for our GFR FLASHback Fridays where we look back on a positive memory in Kent State athletics history. Today we go back 17 years to the day to August 30, 2007 when Kent State went to Ames, Iowa and beat the Big 12’s Iowa State Cyclones. Eugene…
Athlon Sports picks Flashes for 12th; McCray and Glass for First Team
Continuing with our tracking of the preseason magazine prognostications for the upcoming Kent State football season, we finally had a chance to check out the Athlon Sports preview. Athlon picks the Flashes for 12th place in the MAC. They pick Miami to win the league and beat Toledo in the MAC Championship game. As Kent…
KentGRIT adds five more this weekend
The positive momentum continued for the Kent State football program this past weekend as they secured five more commitments to their class of 2025. This gives Kent State 17 commitments already in the class of 2025, which Rivals.com ranks them number one in the Mid-American Conference. Aiden Burgess is a 6-3, 295 pound defensive tackle…
Peace talks KSU marketing and promotions on Podcast
Kent State Associate Athletic Director of Marketing and Fan Engagement Scott Peace was recently a guest on the Sports Marketing Machine podcast. Peace has been in his current role at Kent State since January of 2023. A native of Louisville, Kentucky, Peace got his start in collegiate athletics at the University of Louisville in his…