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Patrick Nicely threw two touchdown passes to Jeremy LaFrance and Akron defeated Kent State 28-20 on Saturday.

Many Americans love living in university towns, especially ones with big-time college football teams.

The University of Akron football team has no chance to win the East Division of the Mid-American Conference, but could determine who does.

It was a play that might stand the test of time as the one symbol of futility and frustration for the 2009 University of Akron football team.

Last updated on 11/01/2009 at 7:35 p.m. NIU head coach Jerry Kill has learned a lot from others.

Share + Oct 31, 2009 3:12 pm US/Central DE KALB, Ill. Tailback Chad Spann scored two fourth-quarter touchdowns and rushed for a game-high 125 yards as Northern Illinois came from behind to beat Akron 27-10 Saturday.

The University of Akron football team will be facing a potent rushing offense Saturday that bears little resemblance to its own.

Good for what ails them. They may be a bit banged up seven games into the season, but the Northern Illinois football team starts a three-game home stand Saturday that should be just what the doctor ordered.

The following information was released by Boston University : The Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy at Boston University School of Medicine announced today that a recently deceased member of the NFL Hall of Fame suffered from the degenerative brain disease Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy when he died, becoming the 10th former NFL ...

Delone Carter did his part to add to the woes of his hometown college team. Carter, a former Mr.

Last year, Syracuse University's football team suffered a miserable 41-27 defeat to Akron - a painful memory that, arguably, marked the low point of the Greg Robinson years.

The defensive game plan was this simple: Be naughty to Nicely. The Syracuse University football team executed the plan to perfection and in the process all but executed Akron true freshman quarterback Patrick Nicely.

Two weeks earlier when last we'd seen the Orange, it was playing the role of rented mule, getting badly beaten by West Virginia and listening to its starting quarterback speak in riddles before being stapled to the bench.

Syracuse's Delone Carter tries to get around Akron's Marvase Byrd during Saturday's game at the Carrier Dome.

A capsule look at this week's Big East games : Akron at Syracuse , 3:30 p.m. Line: Syracuse by 10.

Akron's Miguel Graham defends Kent State receiver Alex Vanderink on a pass in the end zone at Dix Stadium on Oct.

With the season at midpoint, Syracuse hasn't given up hope of reaching six wins and being bowl-eligible. Coming off a bye week, the Orange will host Akron Saturday afternoon.

The advertisement ran last Thursday in the bottom left corner of Page 5A of The Buchtelite, the student newspaper at The University of Akron.

AMHERST, N.Y.: The necessary effort was there, but it was not accompanied by the desired result.

Akron head coach J.D. Brookhart on Monday could only lament the loss of two more players to injury -- WR Deryn Bowser and defender Aaron Williams to a broken arm -- and turn to one player who may well play every spot on the roster by the end of the season.