Growing up in West Virginia I’ve known a lot of Bubbas. I do not, however, know University of North Carolina athletic director and NCAA Selection Committee chair Bubba Cunningham. I don’t know if he’s a good guy. I don’t know if he’s a bad guy. Yet what I do know is by almost every metric […]

Wheeling Park boys basketball coach Micheal Jebbia said the topic surfaces every year when the high school advisory board (eight boys and eight girls coaches) meets. The topic, that is, of a shot clock in West Virginia high school ball. As was pointed out Tuesday by Yahoo! Sports AM, the shot clock transformed the NBA […]

Throughout the years, my writings have mostly relied on research. I learned as a journalist before turning to marketing to check and double check. I learned to seek the truth, which sometimes might be hidden from plain view. But this? This is simply a thank you letter. A thank you to WVU senior guard JJ […]

I was somewhat surprised. While watching the TCU-WVU men’s basketball game, the announcer mentioned that Mountaineer guard Javon Small was up for the Big 12 Player of the Year award. I was surprised because I’d been mostly hearing the name JT Toppin of Texas Tech. I was surprised because Small has had some turnover issues […]

One of the fun sports within sports is following your team’s NCAA tournament chances and possible seedings. Our course, WVU Mountaineer fans following the men know the score. West Virginia has become the very definition of a “bubble team” and is hanging in projections by the proverbial thread. As of Tuesday morning, bracketologist Joe Lunardi […]

As a former sports writer and current WVU basketball fan, it hurt watching the Mountaineers lose at home to a BYU team with the exact same record. The hope for Darian DeVries’ team, of course, is to make the NCAA tournament. It would be quite an achievement after the coach took over a messy situation. […]