Mike Casazza: New basketball season brings old frustrations for Huggins, WVU
MORGANTOWN - What you want to do is dismiss Tuesday night's final score and 25 of the 40 minutes that preceded the final buzzer that announced No. 10 Virginia as a 16-point winner. What you want to do...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: WVU's Lyons now turns to contract, other issues
It was a real trip for WVU athletic director Shane Lyons. A real interesting trip.He was in New York for the Mountaineers' hoops game with Virginia. He was there to speak at a sports business...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: Taking a big-picture look at Holliday, MU
For most of his career, Doc Holliday has been known for his strong Florida recruiting expertise and his work with former West Virginia coach Don Nehlen.Nehlen, of course, turned the Mountaineers...
View ArticleNorman Chad: It's time to take back our Thursdays
How could they screw up Thursdays?For longer than anyone can remember, Thursday has been a soothing stalwart of the calendar* - the next-to-last day of the workweek, occasionally the launching point...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: Eyes were opened at women's Classic
Chania Ray, a Florida State transfer, sat quietly at the end of WVU's bench during the Mountaineers' 66-60 victory over Marshall on Sunday at Charleston's Civic Center.She apparently wanted to check...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: W.Va. native in charge of Herd's bowl destination
By Mitch Vingle You can try to keep us out.But West Virginians are like Taylor Swift songs. Everywhere.And so it goes within the circle of bowls.Marshall is going to the St. Petersburg Bowl (formerly...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: The Capital Classic - reporting live from Bristol
This is me.I'm really at my desk. I'm really typing these key strokes. I'm not trying to pull the wool over your eyes. (Your nose is a different story altogether.)Yet if you're planning on watching...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: Classic matchups to watch, making a call
Ye olde notebook:n So, finally it's here.The War of the Words. WVU's Bob Huggins versus Marshall's Dan D'Antoni. (In the tale of the tape, Huggins has the decided size advantage, but D'Antoni is wiry...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: Elmore gracious, admirable in defeat
For much of Thursday's Capital Classic involving Marshall and West Virginia, the star was Thundering Herd coach Dan D'Antoni's shirt.He wore a pinstripe suit with a black - and somewhat wrinkled -...
View ArticleDoug Smock: Bowl payoff will keep Marshall in the black
By Doug Smock As you navigate the 41-game major-college postseason jungle, you won't hear apologies from the participating players and coaches for taking part.But you may see stories of schools taking...
View ArticleDoug Smock: Marshall steps into AAC's banner year
By Doug Smock IT HAS been three years since Charleston sports section readers have had a reason to care about Big East football, or anything connected to it.For West Virginia fans, it was Dec. 29,...
View ArticleNorman Chad: NFL viewing ruined by replay and fantasy
As America's Viewer for parts of two centuries, Couch Slouch is a trusted voice for generations of couch slouches. I don't yell "Fire!" in a crowded theater unless there is a raging inferno or unless...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: Big 12, WVU looking for bowl beauty
Much of the water-cooler banter Monday surrounded the Miss Universe Pageant and the mistake of Mountain State native Steve Harvey. (Let's face it, the mistake was indeed a beaut.)Yet another type of...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: Huggins missing just one Christmas gift
Twas the Tuesday before Christmas and WVU basketball coach Bob Huggins wasn't in his house.He wasn't in a warm, glowing cabin, sitting with his spouse.Nor was he in the woods somewhere, hunting a...
View ArticleMike Casazza: New number, new roommate and a new Devin Williams
By Mike Casazza MORGANTOWN - We're arrived at a point in the season when it's finally fair to step back and take a look at West Virginia basketball and how reality has fared against expectations. The...
View ArticleDoug Smock: Another puntfest could break out in St. Pete
By Doug Smock ST. PETERSBURG, FLA. - Marshall's first football journey to the Tampa Bay area was very un-Marshall-like, from a historical perspective.The 2011 St. Petersburg Bowl was a defensive...
View ArticleMike Casazza: Bruce out to make statement in Cactus Bowl
By Mike Casazza SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - There is no team in college football more interested or more successful in sacking the quarterback than Arizona State. "It seems like they blitz 100 percent of the...
View ArticleNorman Chad: CFP making New Year's Eve relevant again
So two sacred American traditions - New Year's Eve and the College Football Playoff - are colliding this week, leaving a Sports Nation full of drunken helmet heads to ponder the question:Why oh why...
View ArticleDoug Smock: Pressure's on Herd offense in 2016
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - After Conference USA's abbreviated bowl schedule finished Saturday, the league office posted the most interesting stat.Up to that point, C-USA had the FBS leaders in touchdown...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: If Hurricane is going to change mascot, the time is now
By Mitch Vingle A recorded message greets callers. “Thank you for calling Hurricane High School,” it says, “home of the Redskins.” The school has been the “home of the Redskins,” just like the NFL...
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