Those that used to read my columns in the Charleston Gazette-Mail or Morgantown Dominion Post know I liked to present a package of nuggets from time to time. That’s because I liked digging for hidden treasures that exposed those golden nuggets. So today I went back to the transcript of WVU football coach Neal Brown’s […]

I smiled when I read the football numbers of Darryl Talley and Major Harris would be retired by WVU. I had classes with Talley and watched his greatness. (In a one-on-one phone call back then, former Pitt coach Foge Fazio compared Talley to Panthers great Hugh Green. I’ll never forget it. And, indeed, both went […]

In case you haven’t noticed, college athletics have become the wild, wild West. And East. And North. And South. I refer, of course, to the opening created when the NCAA was pushed to suspend amateurism rules related to name, image and likeness. The era of legally paying for endorsement, autograph signings, etc., is here. I […]

Tammy McCormick has a secret. OK, scratch that – because she’s been telling anyone who will listen. Instead, let’s call it a here-to-fore little-known nugget in Marshall University football lore. You know MU’s Thunder Clap? The one that takes place every time Marshall scores? The one in which fans put their hands over their heads […]