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Cleveland 2026 Cs

/ Derek Mueller
⏳ Approximate reading time: 3 mins

Cleveland 2026 Cs in the rearview mirror, 400 miles to Virginia yesterday, the few photos I took (or 📸 friends sent me), like a flipbook with two-thirds of its pages missing: 24th story strictly fog in the forecast; 8 a.m. Friday on bandwidths; skyline; presenterism; more cowbell; Lake Erie(lhonan), which I learned translates to ‘long tail’; 8 a.m. Saturday on worknets; two of VT’s best!; and once back at the holler, Feta admiring my tree climbing skills. Saw some fantastic presentations and always-always rewarding to see so many longtime friends. #travelog #4c26 #cleveland

Added: I should have mentioned that Cs feels livelier when it coincides with a major fencing tournament, hundreds of young competitors scurrying through the convention center hallways with foils drawn and us academics trundling with the slow confidence that says, ‘Younguns, impale me if you must but I won’t feel it because I am MADE of scar tissue.’ 😆

  • Thick fog viewed from the Hilton Downtown Cleveland.
  • Friday 8 a.m. presentation on temporal bandwidth and disciplinarity.
  • Cleveland downtown skyline on midday Friday.
  • Friday 8 a.m. presentation, “presentism” slide, invigorated that the loose wires on the projection system held their connections.
  • Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Saturday Night Live exhibit–the costume and accessories from the Blue Oyster Cult more cowbell skit.
  • A few of Lake Erie.
  • Nine photos from the 2026 Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) in Cleveland, Ohio.
    Saturday 8 a.m. prespondent slide, What’s in a Worknet?
  • Photo with two of VT’s outstanding RW PhD students, Gideon and Temi.
  • Back at the holler on Saturday evening and Feta is enamored of my tree-climbing skillset after so many days of travel.

MAC Championship

/ Derek Mueller / 1 Comment

⏳ Approximate reading time: < 1 min

As plainly as I can say it, I’ve never looked forward to a MAC Championship game like I am looking forward to today’s MAC Championship game: Akron vs. Ohio, 6 p.m. tip-off. ESPN2.

Above all, I would like to see Ohio win because one of their freshmen, #3 Ivo Baltic, was on teams I coached in the KC area from 2000 to 2004. Now Ivo’s a 6-9 forward who developed an impressive facility for basketball (although I got to know him because I coached his soccer team when he was even younger). Often Ph. and I would pick up him for practices; he was what my own coach approvingly called a “gym rat,” would leave a practice asking about when would be the next time he could get in the gym. For perspective, and because I am proud of what he has done for himself, here are a couple of photos to contrast with the one below, which D. took after we saw Ohio play EMU at the Convocation Center five weeks ago.

After EMU-Ohio Game

So, easily, I am a fan. And I would greatly enjoy seeing his 9-seeded Bobcats beat the 3-seeded Zips.

The other side of the coin for me, as far as my personal interest in today’s game, is that I once had a try-out in front of Keith Dambrot many years ago.