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Mail your well wishes to Kevin in the “Send Love some Love” campaign

So at the beginning of the week a couple of our esteemed Twitter followers let me know that the fine users of Reddit were in the planning stages to develop a campaign to send Kevin Love some “get well soon” cards and letters. Naturally our ears perked up because this sounded like a pretty awesome idea. One of the guys (Mikey) who was organizing it DM’ed me and decided when all the details were ironed out that we’d throw it on the site and see what happens.

Pretty much a no brainer to send some words of encouragement. How often do you get a chance to send an NBA All-Star a get well soon card?

So here ya go. Here are the rules you need to follow (from the Reddit thread)

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The address is:

Send Love Some Love

333 S. State St. Ste V – 425

Lake Oswego, OR, 97034

 

Here’s what I enclosed in my letter

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Again, thanks to @EmDotKep for the heads up.

And here’s the link to the Hottest Cleveland Athlete contest that he won in December

PS- OVER/UNDER on marriage proposals he gets? We’ll set it at 250 and I’m betting the OVER

PPS- Let’s blow this thing the hell up. Share it on Facebook, tweet out a link, tell your friends, etc. If he gets any less than 2K letters it was a damn failure

Cardale Jones tweets that he’s transferring to Akron… Just kidding. May Fools!

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Around 2 pm on Friday Cardale Jones dropped these bombs on Twitter. He changed his Twitter avi and header to the Akron Zips logo. WTF. Is Cardale leaving for The Ohio Polytech Institute?

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Just kidding, guys. It’s May Fools, duh. You really think a quarterback that just won a national championship is really transferring to the MAC? Come. On.

Cardale you dog! Had none all of us fooled!

12 Gauge and the Ohio Polytech Instituters just doesn’t have the same ring to it

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The University of Akron is looking to change it’s name to “Ohio Polytech Institute”

From Ohio.com

University of Akron President Scott Scarborough will address the possibility of changing the name of the school during a speech this month at the City Club of Cleveland.

UA spokeswoman Eileen Korey confirmed Thursday that he will deal with the issue, but she would not say what he will discuss.

Rumors have swirled that Scarborough, who took over as president last year, plans to announce a new name for the university to better represent its polymer and engineering specialties.

He is slated to speak before the City Club at noon May 15. His speech is titledMore Than Harvard: Building a Great Public University in Northeast Ohio.

The possibility already is being met with resistance, with some opponents latching onto the potential name Ohio Polytech Institute.


 

The… Ohio… Polytech… Institute? No way. That sounds like it’s a step down from ITT Tech and maybe a step up from the University of Phoenix. There’s no way that name is even being considered, is there? Look, I have absolutely no ties to AK Rowdy but if this name change happens it’d be one of the dumbest and most ridiculous collegiate blunders of all time.

Just look how bad that looks compared with the other teams in the MAC:

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I texted Zack the t-shirt guy who graduated from Akron a few years ago about this and this was his response:

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Seems pretty thrilled.

 

There’s also a Change.org petition going around condemning the name change. If you’re a Zip or know anyone that’s a Zip, go and sign it

Petition: Stop the Name Change initiated by Scott Scarborough

Update from the University’s Facebook page

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