Mitch Vingle: Checking in with WVU's Huggins
By Mitch Vingle If you've been to the grocery store, you might have noticed the college basketball preseason magazines are out. It might be worthy of head scratching since most college football teams...
View Article8-year-old Layne Morris off to the (mini-bike) races - and succeeding
By Derek Redd Layne Morris needed training wheels to ride the first off-road motorcycle he owned. It didn't take long for those wheels to come off - and for Morris to take off as one of the nation's...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: Akron loss a dreadful day for Marshall
By Mitch Vingle HUNTINGTON - Sometimes college football teams have wake-up calls. On Saturday, however, Marshall's Thundering Herd went through a shock akin to an ice bucket challenge. And today,...
View ArticleNorman Chad: What's wrong with college football? Everything
Whether I'm at a coffee shop or the gun range or Pilates class, I always get the same two questions: 1. How come you're so much better looking in person than on TV? 2. What's wrong with college...
View ArticleDoug Smock: Lamar Jackson has No. 3 Louisville flying high
When last Marshall met Louisville - and won 17-13 - it was 2011 and Charlie Strong's voice boomed with disgust through the loudspeakers of gorgeous Papa John's Cardinal Stadium. Strong's Cardinals,...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: Ty Detmer's offense has been getting BY-booed
By Mitch Vingle When West Virginia faces BYU on Saturday in Landover, Maryland, the teams will be very similar. And yet so very polar opposite.Dana Holgorsen, known for his offensive expertise, has...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: WVU defensive coordinator Tony Gibson says no changes to depth...
By Mitch Vingle MORGANTOWN - The last time we saw WVU defensive coordinator Tony Gibson, he was talking through clenched teeth. And it was easy to understand why.Yes, the Mountaineers had defeated...
View ArticleMike Casazza: WVU ready to face a mature BYU team
By Mike Casazza MORGANTOWN - There are some things about BYU football that cannot be ignored, like the legacy of quarterbacks. Gifford Nielsen, Marc Wilson, Jim McMahon, Steve Young, Robbie Bosco, Ty...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: WVU, MU notes on big gameday eve
By Mitch Vingle Ye olde notebook:n Some WVU fans, on the eve of one against BYU on Saturday in Landover, Maryland, have been concerned about a neutral-site football game set for 2020. As our Mike...
View ArticleDerek Redd: Football players need to keep eyes on the prize - and the goal line
By Derek Redd Hey, there, football player making a beeline toward the end zone. See that brown, ovoid object in your arms? Go ahead, take a glance down. That's the football. It's your most important...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: Receiving corps helps WVU survive against BYU
By Mitch Vingle LANDOVER, Md. - Maybe Ka'Raun White was correct after all. You remember. BYU surely knew.Earlier in the week, White, WVU's 6-foot-1 wideout, spoke of the Cougars' secondary thusly:...
View ArticleNorman Chad: A glimpse inside the mind of Tom Brady
Tom Brady, in the midst of his involuntary month-long NFL sabbatical, is notorious for being a busy bee, so he has filled his idle moments by writing a journal. Because Couch Slouch has shown...
View ArticleDoug Smock: A curveball for C-USA's new commish
Huntington - It wasn't as if Judy McLeod didn't know about Marshall. Before coming to Conference USA in September 2005, she was athletic director at Tulsa for 10 years. So she helped that school move...
View ArticleDerek Redd: Louisville's Lamar Jackson his own worst critic
Lamar Jackson sat in a meeting room at Joan C. Edwards Stadium. Minutes before, he quarterbacked his third-ranked Louisville Cardinals to a 59-28 win over Marshall. For most of those four quarters, he...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: Hey folks, WVU has a top-10 receiver
By Mitch Vingle MORGANTOWN - Most understand why West Virginia University's football team, even at 3-0, is still trying to become nationally relevant. There are flaws to some extent, especially on the...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: WVU-K-State; MU, WVU hoops; and a lost poll
By Mitch Vingle Ye olde notebook:n When West Virginia hosts Kansas State in Big 12 football play on Saturday, it will do so as a slight favorite, according to Las Vegas oddsmakers. The Mountaineers...
View ArticleDerek Redd: Former George Washington star Ryan Switzer closing in on Tar...
By Derek Redd If there was any team against which Ryan Switzer would tie an ACC record, Pittsburgh was perfect. Switzer and the Panthers? His feelings for them go way back - specifically to 2007, when...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: Win wasn't pretty but WVU deserves some credit
By Mitch Vingle MORGANTOWN - As West Virginia fans sang "Country Roads" on Saturday at Milan Puskar Stadium, an old scoreboard message came to mind. It flashed after WVU's 1984 victory over Penn...
View ArticleNorman Chad: Breaking down baseball's division winners
Major League Baseball's six division winners this season can be easily divided into two categories - five tormented franchises denied World Series glory for a long time and a once tormented franchise...
View ArticleDoug Smock: Trying to map out the rest of Marshall's season
PITTSBURGH - In some strange way, Marshall's non-conference season loosely followed the preseason script, or at least the one stuck in my head all August. The Thundering Herd kills Morgan State, gets...
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