Yes, last week I unplugged. Sort of. Miss Joni and I escaped the cold for a week of R&R (how about THAT for timing?), but, of course, we kept up with the sports world. We took a taxi to watch the WVU men lose to Iowa State and watched the ticker in the airport for […]

It was a day or two before last year’s July 4 holiday when I filed the WVU basketball preview to Athlon magazine. I’ve been the man behind those basketball and football outlooks for years. And as I studied the roster and considered its coach, Bob Huggins, there was optimism. The Mountaineers had made the NCAA […]

One of the neatest moments during the WVU football coaching transition was captured and shared via Twitter at 6:06 p.m. on Jan. 6. “The new ball coach,” read the tweet from WVU’s football account, “meets the old ball coach.” Indeed there was a picture of new Mountaineer coach Neal Brown engaged in conversation with former […]

The contrast was stark. Shortly after Neal Brown was named the new WVU football coach, he was captured on film thanking Troy fans at a basketball game. Dana Holgorsen, meanwhile, left Morgantown for Houston with nary a glance back. He tweeted out a picture of him in “H-Town” mugging with Andre Ware. See ya, he […]

WVU basketball fans have to be yearning for ghosts of Christmases past. Recent past. Last year at this time, the Mountaineers were 9-1. (They finished 26-11.) In 2016 at this time, they were 9-1. (They finished 28-9.) In 2015, they were 9-1 and coming off an 86-68 victory over Marshall. (Remember those games? They finished […]

If you happen to be a friend of mine on Facebook, perhaps you can guess today’s hot topic. Over the weekend, it sparked comment after comment after comment. It sparked looooonnng comments. It sparked heated comments. I write, of course, of quarterback Will Grier’s decision to skip WVU’s upcoming Camping World Bowl against Syracuse. (Oddly, […]