When you see Elwood Gordon Gee walk into a room, I can’t help but think that wisp of a man not only commands a room – as he did last night’s Marshall County Chamber of Commerce dinner in Moundsville – but has impacted so many. Of course, he’s in his second go-round as WVU’s president […]

With WVU’s football team tied for last place in the Big 12 with Iowa State and Oklahoma (!) and injuries mounting, I thought maybe now is a time to shift Mountaineer fans’ focus a bit to basketball. Since West Virginia’s men last took the court, their coach was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall […]

I was happy to see Joe Mazzulla given the chance to coach the Boston Celtics. In case you missed it, the former WVU Mountaineer point guard, Fairmont State University coach and Celtics assistant was moved up to interim head coach in the wake of Ime Udoka’s one-year suspension. And, yes, I’m happy for Mazzulla because […]

There’s a pretty neat football recruiting story unfolding in West Virginia – Wheeling to be exact. Remember Tank Tunstalle, the former Wyoming East standout that WVU and Marshall battled over? Well, this player is also named Tank. It’s just that no one knows exactly why. Because he more resembles a jet – James Jett. I […]

It was good to see John Raby of the Associated Press reach out to WVU athletic director Shane Lyons in the days after the Mountaineers’ home loss to Kansas. It’s something I would have done were I back in journalism rather than at dynamic Wheelhouse Creative. It’s something that needed to be done. Because there […]

For WVU fans, a loss in the Backyard Brawl against Pitt always stings. Yet I was surprised coach Neal Brown issued a plea to support his team on Twitter. Maybe Brown is feeling heat. He knows how much beating the Panthers means to Mountaineer fans. And, of course, there was The Fourth Down Decision. That […]