My World Tuesday Season # 2 Episode # 21

This is my posting for the My World Meme. It is hosted by Klaus, Sandy, Wren,  Sylvia and myself. Won't you join in, I want to see where you live and thrive. 

We just finished the Winter Olympics Games and I'm proud of the USA for all its accomplishments. The USA Flag was raised high many times and we won a record number of medals. This is one of the flags on the Main Street bridge.

Going along with the sports theme here is the entrance to the MAC Center at Kent State University. Basketball, gymnastics and wrestling are contended here. Kent is part of the Mid American Conference. 

They used the theme of Dream on one side with a fan,

and the theme of Inspire on the other side with a cheerleader.

We should all Dream and Inspire others.

My World - Year #2 - Episode #1

This is my posting for the My World Meme. It is hosted by Klaus, Sandy, Wren, Louise and myself. Won't you join in, I want to see where you live and thrive. Go see the new layout at the My World site.

Something new for me, my wife wanted me to drive in the Kent State Homecoming Parade. I'm usually on the lake fishing. My Granddaughter took the photo of me in the Don Joseph Toyota truck. The Toyota Dealership supplied my wife the truck and trailer for the parade. The students spent their time to decorate it.
My wife runs the EXCEL program at the school, it is for the undeclared students to help them find a major for their college career choice. She has a great group of students to advise.

We were in the located in the middle of the parade and passed the Kent band getting ready to march. Do you think the leaders noticed the photographer/driver? I was going 5 MPH at the time.

It was cool and cloudy as we travelled Main Street. Sometimes the marchers got in front. Tradition is to throw candy to the children. My grandson was the hit of the students and rode most of the parade and threw candy from his hat. My wife's design for the shirt on the back, (Got Major?). Do you get it?

Kent lost the game by one point, sad ending to a great parade.

My World # 34

This is my posting for the My World Meme. It is hosted by Klaus, Ivar, Sandy, Wren, Louise and myself. Last week there were 74 people (Mr. Linky problems) showing their world to us. Won't you join in, I want to see where you live and thrive. Here is part of 'My World'.

Kent State University planted these three trees to remember the actions on 9/11/2001. They are in front of the Student Center. This is near the main parking lot for visitors.
Here is a plaque showing the reason for the trees.

The leaves though similar are all distinctive. This is the Sugar Maple leaf.

This is the leaf of the Norway Maple.

This is the leaf of the Red Maple.

What a wonderful tribute to remember the day. Try to visit some of the other worlds of people shown above.

My Yellow Posting 5

The Kent State Golden Flashes are fixing their football stadium. They have tore out both end zones and the visitor bleachers.
I'm not sure what they are going to do with the Yellow seating.
They are using construction equipment is normally construction Yellow.

Tiger Wins Again

The biggest golf news of the day, Tiger wins a golf tournament. This is getting to be old news. (LOL) He won his 7th worldwide and his 5th PGA tournament. He has actually won 8 of his last 9 tournaments worldwide. He won it on a breaking putt of 21 foot on the last hole. He did the same thing to Phil Michelson in 2001. He again shot -4 for the day winning by one stroke. He is unbelievable as a golfer. This is the 5th time he has won at Bay Hill.
He ties the great Ben Hogan on the all time winners list and now has only number two Jack Nicklaus in his sights. He just recently past Arnold Palmer on the all time winners list and Arnold looked perfectly happy that he had won his tournament. Tiger plays again next week in Miami and is the defending champion. Tiger was excited about the winning putt but was gracious in his victory. How can you bet against him?
In other sporting news Texas did not win their title game so now we have to wait for the brackets to see if they get an at large bid to The Dance.

Jo: Maybe Kent State will not have a chance to meet Texas.

In NASCAR news 3 Chevrolet's go 1,2,3 but no Hendricks team drive are there. What's going on with Hendricks? Jeff Gordon has not won yet and neither has defending champion Jimmie Johnson. Dale Earnhardt Jr. is doing better then both of them. At least Jr. is in the top 12 as of now.

Tiger Watch / KSU Wins MAC

Tiger was 7 strokes behind at the Arnold Palmer Invitational Bay Hill Classic. If we have learned anything with Tiger is don't count him out. Tiger shoots -4 to go to -6 and is tied for the lead with several others. He is going for his 7th win in a row going back through last year. He has won this tournament the last 4 times. I wouldn't bet on anyone else tomorrow.

Kent Stat wins the MAC Tournament and gets a birth to the NCAA. It was a 19 point win for the Golden Flashes. They will be ranked fairly high among the 64 elite NCAA teams. Kent State lead the whole game and never gave Akron a chance to come back like the last game they played.

Kent State Advances to MAC Finals

Kent State basketball has been really exciting this year. They were ranked as high as 22 in the nation because of their good play. They moved into the final game of the MAC tournament. They beat Miami of Ohio last night. It was a close game and very hard fought. There was a lot of rolling on the floor during the game going after the ball. The referee's let the play go on. Luckily no one was hurt badly. Kent State now goes on to play Akron in the finals. They beat Akron both times they played them this year. Akron had an easy game getting to the finals.


There is talk that Kent State will go to the NCAA Playoffs regardless of the outcome of the game tonight because of their play all year. This should be an exciting game. My children attended both colleges but I'm a KSU fan.

KSU honors past athletes.

There was a halftime program at the basketball game where the athletes from the NFL 2008 Pro Bowl were honored. There were three former KSU athletes who were honored. They gave out a poster that was a little too large to show. It said "Excellence in Action" Congratulation! All thre were undrafted free agents and are doing really well in the NFL.


Here is a picture on the overhead projector from the Pro Bowl Game. Joshua Cribbs plays for the Cleveland Browns. Cribbs was the KSU quarterback and is now a return specialist for Cleveland
James Harrison Jr. plays for the Pittsburgh Steelers. Harrison was and is a defensive end. He is shown here with the KSU Atheletic director and Flash the mascot.
Antonio Gates plays for the San Diego Chargers. Gates was a Basketball Star at KSU and is now a wide receiver for San Diego. Gates did not attend the halftime program.

Kent State Basketball

Kent State University already has a 20 win season. We went to the game yesterday and I took some pictures. Kent State played the Ohio University Bobcats.
This is the tip off to start the game.
This is Flash the mascot.
The score at half time with the cheerleaders performing.
The cheerleaders liked to do lifts.
KSU went on to win their 21st game 72-62 in a convincing fashion over the #2 conference team.