Dave Hickman: Bahamas trip paid dividends for WVU
MORGANTOWN - As far as bonding experiences are concerned, the way Jevon Carter sees it there was at least one stark difference between last summer and this for West Virginia's basketball team.Last...
View ArticleDerek Redd: MU special teamers' feats gain social media fans
By Derek Redd HUNTINGTON - Season 2 of the Marshall special teams' trick shots are coming to a social media site near you. And the wait won't be nearly as long as that for the final season of "Mad...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: Expect sports -- including MU-WVU -- in Justice campaign
HUNTINGTON — A couple of weeks ago, an idea percolated to write about the dormant WVU-Marshall football series. With West Virginia in a Power 5 conference, with the school’s financial goal of six or...
View ArticleChuck McGill column: Must-see football itinerary for fall
Pads are poppin' all around the Mountain State. Pumpkin-spiced products are already on the shelves of grocery stores. Folks, football season is here.The high school season opens in just over a week...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: Ex-MLB umpire Larry Barnett returns home
With football fast approaching, this story might be somewhat out of left field.Yet it's a feel-good story. It's one about a man, an umpire, visiting the Kanawha Valley who seems to feel safe at...
View ArticleMike Casazza: Mountaineer depth chart overflowing with safeties
MORGANTOWN - The depth chart West Virginia's football team publicized Tuesday was exactly what's needed for this stage of the season. Camp was shorter than normal and there's more time between the end...
View ArticleRyan Pritt column: Saints end Greenbrier stay on good note with Patriots
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS - The New Orleans Saints' tour of duty at The Greenbrier came to an end Thursday with a shared practice with the New England Patriots for the second straight day. Most Saints...
View ArticleFrank Giardina column: 1975 WVU team is one to remember
In 1975, the college football landscape was much different than it is today. Today. every team with six wins expects a bowl bid. In 1975, bowl bids were actually earned as there were only 11 bowl...
View ArticleDoug Smock: McManus, offensive line among camp winners
HUNTINGTON - Marshall's preseason camp is in the books, with an asterisk.The fall semester begins today, but the Thundering Herd has an extra week before the season opener Sept. 6 against Purdue. And...
View ArticleMike Casazza column: Conferences should be worried about future TV deals
MORGANTOWN - What the Big 12 offered West Virginia four years ago was help in fighting two battles.The first was against finances. College sports is a spend-to-win business, and cash didn't flow to...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: Ga. Southern coach maneuvering through rain drops
Georgia Southern coach Willie Fritz has experienced much sunshine in his career.Except, that is, for lately."We've had a lot of rain," Fritz said Monday. "We've had to switch our practice schedule...
View ArticleMitch Vingle column: Could this be Worley's last WVU go-around?
MORGANTOWN - West Virginia football coach Dana Holgorsen walked out of his press conference Tuesday after saying his team was ready to move on to Georgia Southern.Then in strode standout cornerback...
View ArticleRick Ryan: Football games a spiritual event for many fans
The moment when you really know there's something spiritual about football:Have you ever surfed the AM radio dial late one autumn night from your car and come across one of those fire and brimstone...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: WVU, Baylor, Big 12 and learning lessons
WVU athletic director Shane Lyons spent Monday and Tuesday of this week at Big 12 meetings in New Orleans.The league has a partnership with the Sugar Bowl, which hosted a dinner, and it was a good...
View ArticleChuck McGill: New staff, higher bar as season kicks off
The lead story in Friday's Charleston Gazette-Mail sports section tackled - hey, it's football season - the topic of the new.New coaches, new season, new opportunities. We're all 0-0.That seems...
View ArticleFrank Giardina: Time for football talk, old and new
Football thoughts I think as our state eagerly awaits the college football season:n When the Marshall-Purdue football series was first announced in January 2010, I remember a statewide radio talk show...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: The game within WVU's opening game
The 3-3-5 odd stack always seemed to make sense for West Virginia University's football program.For whatever reason, the Mountaineers have difficulty landing multiple fine defensive linemen, so the...
View ArticleDoug Smock: Purdue assistant once left mark on Herd stadium
Here's hoping that Taver Johnson's upcoming visit to Joan C. Edwards Stadium is more peaceful than his last.Johnson is in his second season as defensive backs coach at Purdue, which brings him to...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: WVU's new starters, recruiting and Switzer
By Mitch Vingle CHARLESTON, W.Va. - Ye olde notebook:WVU football coach Dana Holgorsen has stars in his eyes.Four stars, to be exact.Last week, the Mountaineer coach said he had three starting...
View ArticleMitch Vingle column: It's go time for the Big 12
MORGANTOWN - On Tuesday, West Virginia had its game week press conference.That's because, finally, it's game week.And for the Big 12, it's go time.Time to go and win.After last season, the conference...
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