When I saw the release from WVU on Oct. 12, my eyebrows raised a little. The Mountaineer athletic department is allowing 25 percent of capacity into Milan Puskar Stadium for the Kansas game. Season ticket holders had the first opportunity to snag those tickets. Yet the department then had to offer tickets to the general […]

When Oklahoma State headed into the fourth quarter trailing Tulsa 7-3 this past Saturday, many in Stillwater were undoubtedly holding their breath. Perhaps because the No. 15 Cowboys were almost out of breath. It’s certainly something to watch when WVU visits Boone Pickens Stadium for this Saturday’s 3:30 p.m. Big 12 matchup on ABC. Read […]

I’ve been asked a lot about the college football season into which we’ve been wading. My response? I anticipate it like the stock market of late. Lots of ups and downs. Hopefully all will be good. And hopefully it doesn’t crash. Yet let’s have some fun. Let’s look at WVU. Let’s look at college football […]

Like many, I suspect, the news of a college football season for some of the conferences – including both of West Virginia’s FBS teams – was met with both joy and wariness. Heck yeah, let’s strap it on, I thought. Followed by, with a mask? I’m happy for the players though. There is a love […]

Usually, I’m not this blunt. But here goes: Wheeling University’s new head basketball coach is a great story. Also, one way or another, the story of Chris Richardson touches most of West Virginia. He’s from Charleston, where he also served as an assistant for the University of Charleston. He was an assistant at Fairmont State […]

It was the tale of one email in-box over two days. On Tuesday, a release popped in from WVU football. It was a “Mountaineer Training Camp Report” It started with “West Virginia coach Neal Brown said Tuesday that he saw some improvement from his secondary during day two of his split-squad fall training camp.” I […]