Ryan Pritt: Rotating state golf site not a bad idea
By Ryan Pritt WHEELING - Right off the top, let me say this is in no way an insult to Wheeling or any kind of lobbying attempt to try to steal a state championship away from the Friendly City and...
View ArticleMike Casazza: Upcoming stretch could decide Dana Holgorsen's fate at WVU
By Mike Casazza MORGANTOWN - The topic had been hibernating for a while. It was put to rest in the winter and roused only slightly a few months later, but it opened its eyes Saturday evening. In...
View ArticleDerek Redd: Noel Devine puts finishing touch on his WVU days
By Derek Redd Morgantown mornings still start early for Noel Devine. But, these days, 6 a.m. workouts are replaced with 7:30 a.m. anatomy classes. No more playbooks, so textbooks now can occupy all of...
View ArticleNorman Chad: Out with football stadiums, in with library stadiums
I am no longer invited to dinner parties, largely because sometime between the foie gras and the fried chicken, inevitably I launch into a tirade about taxpayer funding of stadiums, and, frankly, this...
View ArticleDoug Smock: Little going right for 1-4 Herd
DENTON, Texas - I guess this is where I'm supposed to tell you all is well in Marshall football, that there are still seven games left and the conference championship remains out there for the taking....
View ArticleMitch Vingle: WVU president Gordon Gee eyes Big 12 expansion 'discussions'
By Mitch Vingle On Monday morning, WVU president E. Gordon Gee was preparing for his State of the University address. Much has gone well for the school of late and that extends to its football...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: WVU's Kyle Bosch ready to rocket forward
By Mitch Vingle MORGANTOWN - We all have those moments of reflection. You know the kind. When your experiences rocket through your brain like the Valravn roller coaster at Cedar Point. When you shake...
View ArticleDerek Redd: 'Retirement' still keeping Bobby Bowden quite busy
By Derek Redd A few minutes before then-Florida State football coach Bobby Bowden concluded his final postgame press conference and walked offstage arm-in-arm with wife Ann, a reporter asked him about...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: WVU's odd defense and some hoops notes
By Mitch Vingle Ye olde (rare) Saturday notebook:n If you closely examine statistics, one thing jumps out about this West Virginia football defense, which is meeting the nation's top passing attack...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: Win helps, but all still not well for Marshall
By Mitch Vingle HUNTINGTON - It didn't take long to gauge the mood of the Marshall faithful. On homecoming at Joan C. Edwards Stadium, boos cascaded down to the field when the visiting Florida...
View ArticleNorman Chad: MLB postseason finishes need not wait 'til the midnight hour
Like the rest of you - well, not the rest of you but those who don't work and those who prefer to sleep in - I have been watching MLB's postseason in the middle of the day and the middle of the night....
View ArticleDoug Smock: Herd rescues season from the abyss
HUNTINGTON - The overriding good news in the Marshall camp about its 27-21 win over Florida Atlantic: It avoided a loss that would have been brutal. Horrific.Mortifying.Not catastrophic, but getting...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: Not a good day for Big 12 . . . or WVU
By Mitch Vingle Halloween is fast approaching.The Big 12 news out of Dallas on Monday, however, felt more like April Fools' Day. At least, I'd imagine, to the 11 candidates still hoping for an...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: Patience pays off for WVU kicker Mike Molina
By Mitch Vingle MORGANTOWN - It's the sports columnist's dream.Local boy does good. OK, strike that.Local boy overcomes obstacles and does good. Wait, wait, wait.Local boy overcomes obstacles and does...
View ArticleMike Casazza: Third downs no problem for WVU offense
MORGANTOWN - West Virginia's defense flipped this upside down at Texas Tech last week, but that success served to support the point: College football is about offense. It's a game with an overflow of...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: Key TCU-WVU stats; brain-scrambling offenses
By Mitch Vingle Those with my job aren't known for crunching abs.I get it. We get it. What we do end up crunching, however, are numbers.Heading into Saturday's Big 12 game between TCU and WVU, for...
View ArticleDerek Redd: Low numbers not stopping West Virginia State women's tennis team
By Derek Redd One may forget how much of a luxury margin of error is - that is, until that margin disappears. West Virginia State's women's tennis team is dealing with a harrowing bit of math this...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: Party just getting started for WVU?
By Mitch Vingle MORGANTOWN - With a little over nine minutes left in WVU's Big 12 showdown with TCU, many of the 61,780 in attendance clicked on the lights of their cell phones and held them up....
View ArticleFrank Giardina: 'Deacon' and one of Charleston's finest
By By Frank Giardina For the Gazette-Mail In the late 1960s and early '70s, one of the biggest basketball names in our state was Larry "Deacon" Harris. Harris first appeared on the local basketball...
View ArticleNorman Chad: Warriors only the latest 'super team'
The 2016-17 NBA season has a single overwhelming story line: Will the Golden State Warriors - 73-9 and almost-NBA champions last season - go 74-8 or better and become actual NBA champions this season?...
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