Mitch Vingle: A new report and Catlett's legacy
By Mitch Vingle A new year is upon us and with that we have yet another opportunity to turn pages.We at the Gazette-Mail, of course, enjoy when you turn pages in a literal sense. (It's still better...
View ArticleMike Casazza: WVU's Gee, Buckeyes' Meyer share bond
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - The question posed to Urban Meyer was not yet complete, but a smile had already overtaken the Ohio State football coach's face. Maybe it was his memories of the topic of this...
View ArticleChuck McGill: Father-son memories from 2015 ... and more to come
Who knew a smudge could mean so much?My wife, the lovely mother of our adorable 3-year-old boy Gunnar, made a recent request of me. It was not an ambitious one. She wanted me to clean the inside of...
View ArticleDoug Smock: Ranking the C-USA hoops teams
By Doug Smock HUNTINGTON - Your job, all ye Marshall fans, is to embrace your basketball team.This team is beginning to click, at least at Cam Henderson Center. In that goofy-looking building on Third...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: Black Monday hits those with state ties
By Mitch Vingle Ye olde notebook:Yesterday was known as Black Monday for coaches within NFL circles.Yet there was some spillage into the college ranks.Arizona coach Rich Rodriguez cut loose of two...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: Now 80, Nehlen offers a simple fix for football
When the clock struck midnight a few days ago, it not only signaled a New Year, but a birthday for former WVU football coach Don Nehlen."Yeah," he laughed on Tuesday, "unfortunately."The College...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: MEC hoops making more and more noise
There's a welcome rumbling around the Mountain State.It started long ago in the northern part of the state, above Wheeling, above Oglebay Resort.It started with coach Jim Crutchfield and his West...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: A hidden state gem is coming to the Valley
If you need a reason to get out of the house, I have one for you.His name is Matt.Matt Bingaya, to be specific.You probably haven't heard of him. But on Wednesday night I asked West Liberty basketball...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: Light going on for Macon, WVU big men
By Mitch Vingle MORGANTOWN - Saturday was what you'd call a pleasant day for fans of WVU's basketball team.In a 77-60 Big 12 win over the youthful, injury-riddled Oklahoma State Cowboys, the...
View ArticleNorman Chad: No Hollywood ending for NFL in 'Concussion'
The concussion-in-football issue is rather a simple one: Dr. Bennet Omalu was able to link chronic traumatic encephalopathy, a degenerative brain disease, to repeated blows to the head that many...
View ArticleDerek Taylor: McCutcheon's move highlights bigger issue
I received a message from Taryn McCutcheon just after 11 p.m. last Saturday night, telling me she was moving to Michigan.I talked again to the Ostrowski Award winner and Michigan State signee the next...
View ArticleDoug Smock: Taylor still 'the man' for Herd
HUNTINGTON - Pardon me for these disorganized thoughts, for I can't get Jethro Tull's "Bungle in the Jungle" out of my head.n With James Kelly running roughshod over the opposition, Ryan Taylor isn't...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: WVU and No. 1 - a look back, a look ahead
By Mitch Vingle It hasn't been that long since WVU's basketball team has played the No. 1 team in the land.Technically, it did so last March 26 when Kentucky... well, you know.Yet it's still a special...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: Paige provides the drive for big WVU win
By Mitch Vingle MORGANTOWN - It was a treacherous night to be on the road in West Virginia."For 12,000 fans to show up here, on this night, is unbelievable," said WVU basketball coach Bob Huggins of...
View ArticleMike Casazza: Big goals attainable for WVU basketball
By Mike Casazza MORGANTOWN - The easy and obvious question to ask now that No. 11 West Virginia has beaten No. 1 Kansas is what's next for the Mountaineers?The answer is easy and obvious, too. "We've...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: What NCAA rule change means to Big 12, WVU
By Mitch Vingle YE OLDE notebook:A rule change approved Wednesday by the NCAA allows the Big 12 to hold a football championship. In the past, leagues needed 12 members playing in two divisions to...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: The state of WVU Tech
Kenny is always getting killed in "South Park."And it isn't easy for the Kenny in Montgomery either.When he came back from the Christmas break, WVU Tech athletic director Kenny Howell found his...
View ArticleFrank Giardina: New version of the 'Gold Dust Twins'
In the early 1950s, the basketball duo of Cebe Price and Paul Underwood of South Charleston were lighting up scoreboards in the Kanawha Valley. They went on to star at Marshall, where they won a...
View ArticleMitch Vingle: Browns fans can thank ex-WVU lineman
There are many Cleveland Browns fans in the Kanawha Valley.Some even admit it.OK, OK, so that was a cheap shot. Browns fans of late have become as tortured as Chicago Cubs fans in baseball. And who am...
View ArticleNorman Chad: Hard not to feel guilty watching the NFL
Upon further review, Couch Slouch has decided last week's column on the NFL's concussion problem did not address the issue properly. So today we tackle it again with a bolder, intellectual...
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