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Photo Credit: Bree Bee Written By: Sawyer Knierim Date: May 23rd, 2026 The Toledo Rockets faced Kent State in a game for a trip to the MAC Championship game at 11:45 am. Toledo was looking to make their 4th appearance in the championship. JP Wagner said they “played with nothing to lose.” It showed, as the Rockets won 5-2. Toledo’s bats got going early when Liam Arsich was hit by a pitch and Troy Sudbrook singled. JP Wagner doubled to right-center, scoring Arsich. Cade Ba

Photo Credit: Bree Bee Written By: Sawyer Knierim Date: May 22nd, 2026 According to Murphy’s Law, anything that can go wrong will go wrong. The adage highlights the inevitability of errors and unforeseen complications. For the Toledo Rockets today, there were many errors and complications. Northern Illinois took advantage of it all, winning 9-3. It started with a weather prediction. Rain in the forecast forced the game to be moved from 6:05 PM to 4:45 PM. However, it did no

Photo Credit: Bree Bee Written By: Sawyer Knierim Date: May 21st, 2026 The Rockets got off their bus for a crucial game against the 2-seeded Kent State Golden Flashes. Both teams sat in the stands for an hour and a half while Miami (OH) and Northern Illinois played 15 innings in a barnburner. After Northern Illinois finally accepted the win, Toledo and Kent State took the field at 8:11 PM, 2 hours after the originally scheduled 6:05 PM start. By 11:00 PM, the Rockets would w

Photo Credit: Bree Bee Written By: Sawyer Knierim Date: May 20th, 2026 The Toledo Rockets entered the MAC Baseball Tournament as the No. 3 seed, carrying unfinished business. After reaching the championship game last season, Toledo opened this year’s tournament with another run in mind. Its first test came against the sixth-seeded Ball State Cardinals in a double-elimination format where every win matters. Head coach Rob Reinstetle told his team the message was simple: win.

Photo Credit: Jason Allard Written By: Sawyer Knierim Date: April 22nd, 2026 Picture a place where time bends and old stadium lights still flicker in memory. Across all sports, great games never truly end. They call out to every generation, reminding us of their impact. This is a place where the strange, the legendary, and the forgotten demand to be heard again. This is a series about games that refuse to fade, both strange and historic. It is about the moments that became m

Photo Credit: Payton Schmitz Written by: Trevor Carnicom Date: April 14th, 2026 In what has become a yearly tradition for the Rockets baseball team, they packed up and headed downtown to Fifth Third Field, the home of the Toledo Mud Hens. The Rockets defended their home city against the Michigan Wolverines. These two teams already met once before this season, with the Wolverines taking a 5-2 contest up in Ann Arbor. Toledo came into the game 2-5 playing at Fifth Third Fi

Written by: Sawyer Knierim Date: March 26th, 2026 Dedicated to my Dad: “You wanna have a catch?” "I copied (Shoeless Joe) Jackson's style because I thought he was the greatest hitter I had ever seen, the greatest natural hitter I ever saw. He's the guy who made me a hitter." That quote comes from Babe Ruth—yes, Babe Ruth. The man who revolutionized baseball with his swing says that “Shoeless” Joe Jackson was where he got it from. He could have mentioned Ty Cobb, one of the gr

Photo Credit: Curt Lydy Written By: Mark Mackowiak Date: March 17th 2026 One round down, two to go. The MAC Tournament semi-finals are upon us, which mean another opportunity for the Toledo Rockets women’s basketball team to prove their seed is just a number. Given the six seed, the Rockets faced the number two overall seed Ball State Cardinals, a team that Toledo is more than familiar with. The two teams have faced off twice already this season, with Ball State winning both

Photo Credit: Payton Schmitz Written By: Cameron Fahnestock Date: March 13th, 2026 CLEVELAND, Ohio – The Game that Matters: Toledo’s Men’s Basketball Survives the Battle of I-75 Against Bowling Green State in the First Round of the Mid-American Conference Tournament. These two teams are very familiar with one another as they faced off against each other twice in the regular season. In the first matchup the Toledo Rockets defended home court and got the win 73-72 with Leroy Bl

Photo by: Curt Lydy Written By: Mark Mackowiak Date: March 13th, 2026 Toledo Rockets women’s basketball team has faced their fair share of struggles and adversity this season, losing four of their last six games, and doing so without star guard, Faith Fedd-Robinson. However, the MAC tournament is an opportunity for teams to leave their regular season struggles at the door and embrace the chaos that is March college basketball. As the six seed, the Rockets were slated to face

Photo Credit: Office of Speaker Mike Johnson Written By: Sawyer Knierim Date: March 11th, 2026 Great moments are born from great opportunities—and this one was golden. On Sunday, February 22nd, more than thirty million Americans tuned in at 9 a.m. to watch the United States defeat Canada 2-1 in overtime and win gold for the first time since the 1980 Miracle on Ice—46 years to the day. I was working at a Home Improvement Show in Downtown Toledo during the game. Both vendors an