I’ve always thought of collegiate athletics as a babbling brook. You want your school to be a rock firmly rooted that sticks out and causes ripples, if not waves. Lately, though, that babbling brook has swelled to a river gushing after a rain. The transfer portal and Name, Image and Likeness have caused much of […]

I get it. We always hear that hope springs eternal. Yet sometimes kinks and knots develop in the hose that delivers the hope. We stumble into bad times. Yet look around us today. Spring is here and, if you’re a sunshine junkie like I am, summer is but a couple months away. Easter is close. […]

I guess I’ve known Mike Carey since the late 1980s to early 1990s. Back then he was a young men’s basketball coach at Salem who used grit and fire to turn around a program that was 8-19 into one ranked No. 4 nationally. His Tiger teams won five West Virginia Conference titles and made seven […]

I’m sure most WVU fans are rooting for the Country Roads Trust venture that helps Mountaineer athletes in regard to name, image and likeness (NIL) deals. We’re certainly proud at Wheelhouse Creative LLC to be helping with the Trust team. Yet I was like many Mountaineer followers interested in an update of the Country Roads […]

When I was a kid, I never spent time looking for Joe DiMaggio. If you’ve ever heard Simon and Garfunkel’s song “Mrs. Robinson,” you know what I mean. The line “Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?” referred to heroes of the past. I had my heroes. They were, mostly, baseball players. At least regarding professional […]

You could see the pain, the frustration on the face of WVU basketball standout Taz Sherman Monday night. The Mountaineers had fallen to 14-13 after losing their 11th in their last 12 games in a 77-67 road loss to TCU. Sherman had been hot, but WVU was outrebounded 42-24 in the loss. Unless West Virginia […]