Doug Smock: Long, strange trip over for 2012 Marshall football signing class
By Doug Smock The first thing to remember about Marshall's recruiting class of 2012 is its volume. It was huge.Marshall had just eked out a 7-6 season, upsetting Louisville and winning the last three...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: Falcons' Goodwin gives W.Va. a Super Bowl representative
By Mitch Vingle WVU doesn't have a former player participating in the upcoming Super Bowl. Marshall doesn't have one either.Yet the state of West Virginia has a fine representative. Have you missed...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: Catching up with several ex-WVU players
By Mitch Vingle Ye olde notebook:On Tuesday, I had a chance to reach out to new West Virginia State University running backs coach Quincy Wilson. It started with a jab and a laugh."What the heck," I...
View ArticleMike Casazza: WVU basketball positioned but not yet primed for postseason
By Mike Casazza MORGANTOWN - The same team that bounced three 3-pointers in off the glass in the first half Tuesday missed two dunks in the second half. The same team that pulled a pair of freshmen...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: WVU's place in the mad world of recruiting
By Mitch Vingle One of the most maddening topics for sports writers to cover is recruiting. Think you have a handle on what's happening? Think again. You don't. It changes. Sometimes by the minute....
View ArticleDerek Redd: College football coaches see no problem with December signing period
By Derek Redd Welcome to the first days of the rest of your college football recruiting lives. This year will mark the last that National Signing Day is just one day. For the next signing class, there...
View ArticleFrank Giardina: Ripley's Ludwigs and the Jerry West Classic
By By Frank Giardina For the Gazette-Mail Many towns in our state have athletic families that establish athletic legacies in their communities. In Ripley, in Jackson County, one such family is the...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: A WVU opportunity goes by the boards
By Mitch Vingle MORGANTOWN - West Virginia University's coaches knew. They knew Oklahoma State's basketball team had followed a six-game losing streak with a four-game winning streak heading into...
View ArticleDoug Smock: Marshall men's basketball offense starting to sag in second halves
By Doug Smock So why, oh why, is Marshall's basketball team stuck in a three-game losing streak, one that has sent the Thundering Herd plunging into the middle of the Conference USA pack? I'm not the...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: WVU's top recruit, Huggins' fall and the Star Spangled Banner
By Mitch Vingle The views from here:When WVU's basketball team fell to Oklahoma State it prompted a tumble in the polls to No. 13 (Associated Press) and No. 14 (USA Today coaches). It was yet another...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: Ex-WVU player Darris Nichols an asset on Florida bench
By Mitch Vingle Before No. 17 Florida's home basketball game against No. 15 Kentucky last Saturday, the Gators broke out a neat hologram on-court presentation at what they call the O'Dome. It was...
View ArticleMike Casazza: No need to panic with WVU football coaching changes
By Mike Casazza The offseason begins at the football offices of West Virginia University, assistant coaches scamper out the door so they can take a new job somewhere else and your friend, your...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: WVU's Gee satisfied with Big 12 action
By Mitch Vingle When West Virginia University president E. Gordon Gee reads the reports of what's happening at Baylor, he has to feel as repulsed as most. A sexual assault scandal has rocked the...
View ArticleDerek Redd: Randy Moss shouldn't get the Owens treatment from Hall of Fame
By Derek Redd The Pro Football Hall of Fame snub of Hall-of-Fame-worthy Terrell Owens last week made me start wondering about something. It pains me to say it even crossed my mind, I find the thought...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: WVU holds up in light of early tourney seeding
By Mitch Vingle MORGANTOWN - Because of the situation in which West Virginia University's basketball team finds itself, the attention of those covering it had to be split on Saturday. While the...
View ArticleFrank Giardina: Unique State basketball memory and a loss at Marshall
Soon it will be tournament time at the Charleston Civic Center. For years, the yearly run of the WVIAC/MEC tournament, the girls state high school tournament and the boys state high school tournament...
View ArticleDoug Smock: Top hoops leagues get too many NCAA berths
By Doug Smock Personally, I like to steer clear of those “the rich get richer” columns on the state of college athletics, because I usually end up muttering a variation of “no joke, Sherlock.” The...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: Another special Valentine's Day for WVU's Hahn
By Mitch Vingle Today is Valentine's Day.Yet to Billy Hahn, assistant to WVU basketball coach Bob Huggins, yesterday was too. As will be tomorrow. And last Wednesday was most certainly Valentine's...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: A Charleston connection to Major League Baseball
By Mitch Vingle Ye olde notebook:If you went to USA Today's website on Tuesday, pushed past the story "Bracketology: West Virginia's costly collapse," and skipped to the topic of baseball, you'd see a...
View ArticleMike Casazza: Real Bob Huggins a fan of Twitter's Fake Bob Huggins
By Mike Casazza MORGANTOWN - Not too long ago in a season undulating toward the finish, West Virginia built a huge lead and watched it slip away. This may sound like a story you've heard before, but...
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