Mitch Vingle: MEC update, a look at WVU's DL and Sims
Ye olde notebook:Before the NCAA basketball tournament, we brought you coverage of the Mountain East Conference tournament. Within the package, we brought you news that the MEC event just might be...
View ArticleMike Casazza: Big 12 has work to do in NCAA tournament
By Mike Casazza MORGANTOWN - This hasn't been the best month for the Big 12 and its basketball coaches. This March and the three Marches before it. Three gentlemen can change it this weekend as Bill...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: MLB updates and outspoken Big 12 coaches
By Mitch Vingle Finally, finally, finally spring is here. And as staffer Ryan Pritt said the other day, diamonds are a sports writer's best friend. Baseball diamonds.I figured, after the way the...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: Huggins tops list of West Virginia's 20 most powerful sports...
Throughout the years, various media outlets have published a list of the nation's most powerful sports figures. Names such as NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, NBA head Adam Silver, ESPN's John Skipper,...
View ArticleFrank Giardina: Shan, Pitt's search, St. Joe, Scaggs and Spiker
By By Frank Giardina For the Gazette-Mail I will miss Shan Phillips. I already do. On Friday afternoon, I attended a memorial service for the former Charleston High School basketball star at Shiloh...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: Catching up with Pitts, Dotson and WVU transfers
By Mitch Vingle It's been over a year now since Auburn's coaches woke up Mountain State sports fans by offering South Charleston's Derrek Pitts a football scholarship. Now?"I'm up to 20," Pitts said...
View ArticleNorman Chad: Examining LeBron's latest Twitter controversy
LeBron James unfollowed the Cleveland Cavaliers last week on Twitter, which apparently was the equivalent of the Pope skipping Easter Sunday Mass for a bingo tournament. There was a global uprising of...
View ArticleDoug Smock: Herd wise to skip postseason hoops events
You probably missed this item last week and might not have cared anyway: Ohio and Morehead State played for a spot in this week's College Basketball Invitational championship series. Yes, series....
View ArticleMitch Vingle: Transfer time; Paige honor; hoops rules
By Mitch Vingle Ah, the sight of social media transfer news in the morning ... The college basketball season still has the Final Four to go, but already missives about transfers are flying. Check your...
View ArticleMike Casazza: WVU's Caponi isn't used to losing
By Mike Casazza MORGANTOWN - Last winter, not long after he arrived to coach West Virginia's safeties and not long before he began his first spring with the Mountaineers, Matt Caponi found himself...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: Villanova-Oklahoma game kicks up magic memories
By Mitch Vingle When Villanova and Oklahoma meet in Saturday night's basketball Final Four, I'd imagine most folks in the Mountain State will root for the Sooners. OU, after all, is in the Big 12,...
View ArticleNorman Chad: They don't make pitchers' arms like they used to
By By Norman Chad For the Gazette-Mail Chicago Cubs ace Jake Arrieta pitched 229 regular-season innings last year. Then a couple of his postseason starts were substandard; conventional wisdom says his...
View ArticleDoug Smock: Pearson's trek to Marshall includes the indoor game
By Doug Smock HUNTINGTON - Football coaches are a different breed. Unless you're a Doc Holliday and can drop anchor in one place for two decades, your career is going to have a lot of lines and a lot...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: Mountaineers try to make pro day one to remember
By Mitch Vingle MORGANTOWN - Pittsburgh Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin and team general manager Kevin Colbert roamed WVU's indoor facility Monday morning. Ditto names like Buffalo Bills GM Doug...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: WVU's Mazey hoping to warm up program
By Mitch Vingle If ever there was a sport where the phrase "fair-weather fan" comes into play, it's baseball. Especially in West Virginia.Folks are interested in supporting their teams, sure. But, um,...
View ArticleChuck McGill: Son of World Series winner makes Power debut
The name and position number on the lineup card is a familiar one: Hayes, 5. West Virginia Power manager Brian Esposito will scribble that last name and number - which, in baseball, refers to third...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: WVU's Blue, son carrying heavy load with dignity, love
MORGANTOWN - New WVU cornerbacks coach Blue Adams took a bunch of bone-rattling shots as a former football player. He played collegiately at Cincinnati, was a seventh-round draft pick of the Detroit...
View ArticleMike Casazza: Seider handles new reality at running back
By Mike Casazza MORGANTOWN - For years now, the conversations one could have with Ja'Juan Seider at this time of the season were about what the West Virginia running backs coach would do with all the...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: WVU's Arndt providing quite a narrative; notes
MORGANTOWN - Some folks think WVU's football team is in line to do some nice things in 2016. Some think the Mountaineers aren't. Name aside, linebacker Justin Arndt believes they are. And defensive...
View ArticleNorman Chad: Patriots fans not letting air out of Deflategate
Seven New England Patriots fans are suing the NFL in an effort to recover the first-round pick taken from the team as punishment for the Deflategate scandal. Yes, Deflategate. Still...
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