Norman Chad: Not just splitting hairs over clean-shaven Marlins
Miami Marlins manager Don Mattingly - who sported a mustache while playing with the New York Yankees - recently announced a new team policy that all players must be clean-shaven. There is stupid and...
View ArticleDoug Smock: Thursday brings 54 years of NCAA heartbreak
TODAY'S NOT-SO-TRIVIAL question: Which Conference USA team has gone the longest without making the NCAA tournament? Answer: Rice, whose drought will hit the 46-year mark. The Owls were members of the...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: Wilson gets his shot with Glenville
By Mitch Vingle Ye olde notebook:It didn't take long for news to get out that Quincy Wilson was leaving WVU for Glenville State. "Like wildfire," Wilson laughed on Tuesday. "My phone has been blowing...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: Consider this both WVU's and Huggins' year
By Mitch Vingle MORGANTOWN - It was around 3 p.m. on Wednesday during No. 10 WVU's shootaround. Mountaineer coach Bob Huggins called over standout Devin Williams. They talked one-on-one and Huggins...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: WVU spring football notes, quotes and hunches
Some of what I gleaned from and around WVU's pre-spring football press conference this week: n The Mountaineers will not be traveling around the Mountain State during spring drills as they have of...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: Reed's story one of most compelling in Civic Center history
The finest 3-point shooter in NCAA history was in Charleston Saturday night. West Liberty's Seger Bonifant has hit 359 of 679 treys in his career for a stunning 52.9 percent conversion rate. Stephen...
View ArticleDoug Smock: Marshall easily surpassed preseason expectations
By Doug Smock HUNTINGTON - The preseason prognosticators could have gotten this one right about Marshall's basketball prospects: The Thundering Herd would have to hit not one but two buzzer-beaters to...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: Sans support, effort, MEC and Charleston may split
By Mitch Vingle Mountain East Conference commissioner Reid Amos put on his happy face. And God bless him. It couldn't have been easy.Concord and Notre Dame in the men's basketball finals at...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: Big 12 expansion and MEC tournament news
By Mitch Vingle The views from here:n As we move toward the Big 12's probable summertime decision on whether to expand, bits and pieces of the big-picture story leak out. In the past you've read here...
View ArticleMike Casazza: Carter confident as WVU enters Big 12 tournament
By Mike Casazza KANSAS CITY, Mo. - West Virginia is in prime time Thursday night, playing a quarterfinal game in an event that crowns a champion in the toughest college basketball league in the...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: A team from Morgantown, a player named Adrian
So there's this basketball team from Morgantown.It's highly ranked. Sometimes it doesn't shoot very well. Sometimes it has to rely on defense. Oh, and the last name of one of its starters is Adrian....
View ArticleMitch Vingle: So far, 'Press Virginia' has been 'Best Virginia'
By Mitch Vingle March Madness is like a wonderful whirlwind most sports fanatics allow themselves to be swept into. Teams and fans get carried away. And, yes, most eventually crash to the ground. Yet...
View ArticleChuck McGill: WVU's bracket draw has benefits, drawbacks
The debut of the two-hour version of the CBS Selection Show was terrible. The spoiler bracket that hit social media midway through the bracket unveil was a delight. West Virginia's NCAA tournament...
View ArticleDoug Smock: C-USA's bad reputation showed on Selection Sunday
By Doug Smock HAS Conference USA basketball really sunk this far? 'Fraid so.On Sunday, as the two major postseason brackets were unveiled, the 21-year-old league took a roundhouse slap in the face....
View ArticleMitch Vingle: WVU hiring process and a football snapshot
By Mitch Vingle A few spring football notes before a headfirst dive into the NCAA basketball tournament: When former WVU wide receivers coach Lonnie Galloway left Morgantown to join Louisville's...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: New York and WVU, Dakich and Devin Williams
BROOKLYN, N.Y. — WVU and its fans should feel good about the Mountaineers playing this round of the NCAA Tournament around the Big Apple of New York City. The area certainly has been sweet to the West...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: Friendly coaches become adversaries today
By Mitch Vingle BROOKLYN, N.Y. — At 7:10 p.m. Friday, when WVU and Stephen F. Austin meet in the NCAA Tournament, there will be much intensity between the respective coaches, Bob Huggins and Brad...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: Stunning nightmare snuffs WVU season
BROOKLYN, N.Y. _ West Virginia's basketball team suffered a nightmare at the Barclays Center Friday night in the NCAA tournament. It was one of those nightmares in which you realize what's going on....
View ArticleMitch Vingle: Where does WVU go from here?
By Mitch Vingle As I made my way home from Brooklyn, after scrambling to change my flight late Friday evening, I saw the sun rising. For a moment, I thought of snapping a picture and sending it out to...
View ArticleChuck McGill: Bracket tidbits, AP nuggets and a former W.Va. hoops star
By Chuck McGill The Sweet Sixteen will be set late Sunday and this sports scribe’s bracket is in shambles. That’s not to be unexpected, of course. The logic here is to predict chaos. It happens every...
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