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Week 8 game day preview: Kent State at BGSU football
BOWLING GREEN — Bowling Green State University’s football team will look to bounce back from last week’s loss to Northern Illinois when the Falcons host Kent State in Mid-American Conference play. BASICS ■ Who: Kent State (0-6, 0-2 MAC) at BGSU (2-4, 1-1) ■ When: Saturday, 3:30 p.m.
Toledo Christian dominates Holgate in matchup of unbeaten 8-man football teams
Toledo Christian remained unbeaten in a convincing way on Friday night. The Eagles scored touchdowns on their first nine possessions, held a short-handed Holgate team to negative yardage in the first half, and cruised to a 62-0 victory in an 8-man football game at Bowsher’s Charles W. Matthews Stadium. “Preparation’s huge,” Toledo Christian coach Andrew Skeels said. “Holgate’s a team that over the summer, we’ll practice against them. They’re kind of our rivals in the last few years, so we are really prepared for them, just like them for us. “They were short-handed today, but they always prepare well. Defensively, I think we were able to hit the quarterback and it kind of hurt them not having their starter in there. But our defensive line, we kind of try to set the tone.”
Johns Hopkins prof giving nuclear power lecture at BGSU
Francis Gavin, director of the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs at Johns Hopkins University, will deliver a free, public lecture about the history of nuclear power at Bowling Green State University on Thursday. He has been invited to give the 2024 Gary R. Hess Lecture in Policy History at 1 p.m. inside Room 201 of the Bowen-Thompson Student Union, 806 Ridge St., on BGSU’s main campus. Professor Gavin has worked widely in international security and global policy at various academic and national institutions. In 2012, he published a book titled Nuclear Statecraft: History and Strategy in America's Atomic Age.
Review: 'Tosca' remains fresh on Toledo Opera stage
The Toledo Opera will open its 2024-2025 season with Tosca, an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini, Friday. The opera debuted 124 years ago, but the old warhorse — the opera, not Floria Tosca — never seems to age. Maybe it’s because of the plot. Maybe it's because of Puccini’s drama-heavy score. Maybe it’s because companies like the TOA and directors such as Jeffrey Buchman, conductors like Geoffrey McDonald, singers like Brendan Boyle, Lindsey Anderson, Corey Crider, and other talented cast mates and chorus, keep the work one of the world’s most popular. Maybe it’s all of the above. At any rate, TOA’s production strikes all the right notes, keeping the production set in Napoleonic days, using the traditional sets, and imbuing the chief of police, Baron Scarpia, with the perfect amount of sleaze.
Heart of the Rivalry: Episode 7, There is a Band Controversy
Heart of the Rivalry is a new Blade-produced YouTube series and podcast that is available on all major platforms. The weekly college football show is led by The Blade’s sports columnist, David Briggs, and co-host/producer Phil Kaplan. This week our hosts welcome special guest, UT beat writer Kyle Rowland to discuss one of the most sacred of sports controversies: a band controversy brews between UT and BGSU.
Anthony Wayne 3rd, Maumee Valley 4th at girls state team tennis
WOOSTER, Ohio — One of the biggest initial goals for Epifani Jones when she took over as Maumee Valley’s girls tennis coach eight years ago was creating a more competitive atmosphere among the players in the program. The goals have continued to expand throughout her tenure, and the Hawks reached a new milestone this fall when they reached the Ohio Tennis Coaches Association Division II state team tournament for the first time since 2003. On Saturday at the College of Wooster, Maumee Valley completed the next step in the team’s turnaround by posting a fourth-place finish. The other area representative at the state team event was Anthony Wayne, which finished third in Division I.
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