The visit and topic warranted the prime spot on the front page of The Intelligencer in Wheeling. The visit of WVU president E. Gordon Gee, that is, and the topic of possible conference realignment for the Mountaineers. “I think we all understand there is a changing dynamic in college athletics,” Gee told Rotary of Wheeling […]

I didn’t even flinch when word came out Tuesday via The Athletic that Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby was meeting with new Pac-12 commissioner George Kliavkoff. West Virginia University has been in the same conference as Miami, Fla. It’s been in the same conference as Texas. Why not USC? Of course, I’m getting way ahead […]

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 […]