Mike Casazza: Tony Dews paying more dues at WVU
By Mike Casazza MORGANTOWN - When your car starts to rattle and smoke billows from under the hood, you need a mechanic. If you get in trouble with the law, you call a lawyer. A stomach ache that...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: WVU linebacker - from Long shot to special story
By Mitch Vingle Morgantown - David Long is a pie in the face of those bestowing honors on high school athletes. He's the kick in the shins to those doling out recruiting stars. Yet beyond that, David...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: WVU linebacker - from Long shot to special story
By Mitch Vingle Morgantown - David Long is a pie in the face of those bestowing honors on high school athletes. He's the kick in the shins to those doling out recruiting stars. Yet beyond that, David...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: A smooth day for the Mountaineers at Gold-Blue Game
By Mitch Vingle MORGANTOWN - The highlight of WVU's Gold-Blue spring football scrimmage undoubtedly was when former Mountaineer and current New York Giants quarterback Geno Smith entered in street...
View ArticleFrank Giardina: Little League and other spring memories
By By Frank Giardina For the Gazette-Mail There is an old saying that in the spring, a young man's fancy turns to thoughts of love. Well, it is spring and this old man's thoughts turn to baseball,...
View ArticleDoug Smock: Fears of Justice interfering with Marshall athletics seemingly...
By Doug Smock The first thing you need to know about Jim Justice is this: He puts his big handprints on everything. When he came out of nowhere, it seemed, to fish The Greenbrier resort out of...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: WVU football notes, thoughts from spring
By Mitch Vingle Thoughts following WVU's spring drills and the Easter break: n• As even casual football fans know, it's extremely difficult to find a good college quarterback. Look around the country....
View ArticleMitch Vingle: WVU's Nathan Adrian receives 'a little NBA buzz'
By Mitch Vingle When the NBA draft rolls around on June 22, WVU fans might want to tune in - at least for the second round. "Nate Adrian has been getting a little NBA buzz," said Mountaineer...
View ArticleMike Casazza: WVU football must navigate new recruiting rules
By Mike Casazza MORGANTOWN - When the NCAA offered assistance last week, West Virginia and others found obstacles. These are the minor nuisances that accompany nuance, but these are the things the...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: Multiple basketball connections to West Virginia
By Mitch Vingle West Virginians pride themselves on connections.Kevin Bacon may have six degrees of separation from many. But we can connect dots from Poca and West Virginia to almost anywhere. Try...
View ArticleDerek Redd: Charleston's grip on MEC basketball tournament challenged
By Derek Redd Could a staple of Charleston sports for nearly six decades actually pull up stakes and move west? It could happen.Two cities have placed a bid to host the Mountain East Conference men's...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: Marshall's Doc seeking a cure for 3-9
By Mitch Vingle HUNTINGTON - Like much concerning Marshall's football program of late, Saturday didn't exactly go according to plan. The Green and White Scrimmage originally set for Joan C. Edwards...
View ArticleDoug Smock: Several Marshall football newcomers struggled in early scrimmage
By Doug Smock HUNTINGTON - One caveat about Marshall's Green and White Scrimmage: Fans did get to see an all-out scrimmage, albeit one less than two hours long. The scrimmage, formerly known as a...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: Recruiting stars twinkling in West Virginia
By Mitch Vingle West Virginia residents have always known the state is Almost Heaven. But lately we've also been able to boast of stars within. Just check last season's football recruiting class from...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: The all-time W.Va. NFL draft team
By Mitch Vingle For some reason I've always thoroughly enjoyed the NFL draft. I find it odd because I won't know 80 percent of the players taken and won't care about 90 percent of them or the teams....
View ArticleMike Casazza: WVU's Shelton Gibson confident heading into NFL draft
By Mike Casazza MORGANTOWN - Shelton Gibson and 102 other college football players made the increasingly common decision to forfeit eligibility and enter the NFL draft early. Virtually all of them...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: Charleston and baseball, Kiwi Land hoops and legacies
By Mitch Vingle Ye olde notebook:Spring in West Virginia means warmer weather and, of course, baseball. Summer in Charleston? It will be time for some folks to spring into action - if, that is, they...
View ArticleDerek Redd: Stars don't always align in NFL draft
By Derek Redd When the NFL draft rolls around, it sometimes piques my curiosity as to how perceptions of a player can change in a couple of years. In the months leading up to the moment they sign...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: WVU's Shane Lyons and video board; readers write
By Mitch Vingle Your Sunday buffet:n This past week I had a nice conversation with WVU director of athletics Shane Lyons. The initial purpose of the call was to check on reports Kentucky's basketball...
View ArticleDoug Smock: Marshall football's draft drought, on-field slide go hand in hand
By Doug Smock I do not profess to be an NFL draftnik but I find the exercise useful, as college talent that plays for and against your school is sized up objectively by people whose jobs depend on it....
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