Mike Casazza: Will WVU football ever return to the touch pass?
By Mike Casazza MORGANTOWN - There was a time when you were certain things were going to look a particular way on offense at West Virginia University. Maybe it was when the Mountaineers hired Dana...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: Making a call on Marshall's football season
By Mitch Vingle Oh, the horror.Oh, the humiliation.Usually, you can take my Marshall football predictions as gospel. Heck, Sandi Patty would sing about THEM. (She's a gospel singer, you heathen.) But...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: Predicting WVU's chances for 2016
By Mitch Vingle I've written it before.Yes, WVU head coach Dana Holgorsen is on the proverbial hot seat. Yet the upcoming Mountaineer schedule sets up as well as the coach can hope for considering...
View ArticleFrank Giardina: August remembrances of past football heroes
By By Frank Giardina For the Gazette-Mail Football is in the air. The college camps are open, NFL preseason games have started and high school scrimmages are underway. Often at this time of year, my...
View ArticleDoug Smock: How will graduate transfers impact Herd?
He doesn't care for the graduate transfer rule, but Marshall coach Doc Holliday knows he has to play the game, too. You know the drill: If you earn your degree from School A and have eligibility...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: After JC 'struggle' WVU's Rasul Douglas ready to rock
By Mitch Vingle There have been a few stories emerge from West Virginia University's football camp. Off the field, there was the Adam Pankey arrest. Before that, defensive end Larry Jefferson was...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: A Gale force that refuses to be stopped
HUNTINGTON - It was Tuesday morning and Mark Gale, Marshall's assistant athletic director for football operations, was getting a walk in with buddy Mike Conley on the track around Joan C. Edwards...
View ArticleMike Casazza: Turf not to blame for WVU football injuries
By Mike Casazza MORGANTOWN - In the span of a week, West Virginia football lost two defensive players to season-ending injuries. In the same amount of time, some fans lost their minds. Injuries will...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: What McCabe brings to WVU's basketball team
By Mitch Vingle WVU's men's basketball team will undoubtedly employ its "Press Virginia" style of defense this coming season. "We've sold too many T-shirts not to," deadpanned coach Bob Huggins...
View ArticleDerek Redd: Relaxed social media rules not a big hit with coaches
By Derek Redd Only in the world of college recruiting can a tiny heart symbol on a social media feed mean so much. Hey, college football coach, did you click on that heart underneath that...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: A peek behind the curtain of WVU football
By Mitch Vingle MORGANTOWN - More and more, it seems, folks look at major college football programs as businesses or corporations shrouded in secrecy. The coach is the CEO, the face that occasionally...
View ArticleDoug Smock: Winners, not-winners from Herd camp
Huntington - The public portion of the preseason has finished at Marshall, but camp has not. This is an unusual preseason. The Thundering Herd is the only major-college team to begin the season a week...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: Marshall's Emanuel Byrd has a special story
By Mitch Vingle HUNTINGTON - Most of my column subjects are athletes. This, however, is a story of a man who just happens to be an athlete. It's a story of a man standing tall through adversity. It's...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: WVU looks to plug hole in Pankey's absence
By Mitch Vingle MORGANTOWN - When WVU coach Dana Holgorsen announced on Tuesday left offensive guard Adam Pankey is "currently suspended," at least through the Missouri game, it might have caught some...
View ArticleMike Casazza: WVU football enjoying a number of offensive options
By Mike Casazza MORGANTOWN - There are occasions, even after five seasons and a sixth preseason with this West Virginia offense, when you have to rub your eyes. Did you see that right? We think we...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: Big 12 meetings, Mizzou and da Bears
Ye olde notebook:n Everyone in the media, it seems, missed it. Yet nothing, it seems, was missed. The Big 12 athletic directors met this week in New Orleans and, yes, a topic of particular interest...
View ArticleDerek Redd: A tough act to follow, but the future is bright
There's a scene in "Great Balls of Fire," the Jerry Lee Lewis biopic, where Lewis had to open for Chuck Berry. Needless to say, Jerry Lee, as played by Dennis Quaid, was none too pleased. So he took...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: WVU running backs coach hoping Rushel Shell ready to shock...
By Mitch Vingle Some would say West Virginia's No. 1 tailback has been, well, a shell of his former self since high school. Back in the day, Rushel Shell was simply The Man at Hopewell High in...
View ArticleFrank Giardina: Olympics, Moss, Fannin, rivals and runners
By By Frank Giardina For the Gazette-Mail I must admit that I am experiencing Olympics withdrawal. I love watching the Summer Olympics. I first got hooked watch the Summer games from Mexico City in...
View ArticleDoug Smock: Games that could flip 'The Script' for Marshall
THIS IS the first and last time, I hope, I ever combine an open-date column with a season preview. With Marshall not opening until Sept. 10, I have been bouncing off the walls of the Edwards Stadium...
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