I had to smile the other night while watching both the Kent State-WVU men’s basketball game and Twitter. In the hoops game, won, by the way, by the Mountaineers 63-50, Golden Flashes coach Rob Senderoff was assessed two technical fouls for arguing a call and was ejected with 7:54 left. Sean McNeil then sank four […]

It took five minutes. Just five. To uncover the best Heisman Trophy candidate. I’d gone to dinner with Joni and had expressed on Twitter that I missed “sitting down and really grinding the numbers, etc., for my Heisman vote. I didn’t do the lemming thing and follow the talking heads on ESPN. I voted for […]

I still remember the feeling when I first heard Rich Rodriguez was leaving WVU football for Michigan. I was the sports editor and columnist at the Charleston Gazette and was at once stunned, exhilarated and filled with anxiety. That was my deal, man. Well, mine and that of beat writer Dave Hickman. We had to […]

I remember four years back when I moved to the Wheeling area. It completed my working tour of the state in which I went from Fairmont and Morgantown to Beckley and Martinsburg with a detour to Pittsburgh and then back to Morgantown before a 24-year stay in Charleston. I remember being struck in the Wheeling […]