Mike Hamrick wasn’t the best athletic director in Marshall University history.
It was a surprise. Most people didn’t expect Taz Sherman to return to the West Virginia University men’s basketball program.
Can Devin Collins be the next Austin Loop?
With weather more befitting Thanksgiving Day than Memorial Day, I woke up Sunday morning wondering if I should grill burgers and dogs or make a pot of chili.
For me, as a child of the southern coalfields of West Virginia, Memorial Day weekend is a time to remember a childhood hero who went to war but did not come home.
The last time we saw professional baseball in Charleston was back around Labor Day, 2019, when the West Virginia Power -- then the low-Class A minor-league affiliate of the Seattle Mariners -- finished up a mediocre season in the South Atlantic League with a 69-70 record.
On one channel on Sunday, golf’s senior statesman was going off on the course. On the other, NASCAR’s senior statesman was going off on his organization.
As I watched the amazing story of Marshall winning the NCAA men’s soccer championship, I could not help but flash back to a hilarious story about the program’s humble beginnings.
It is doubtful Goran Miladinovic ever watched the movie “Bang The Drum Slowly.”
Marshall University’s men’s soccer team won a national championship, based on the execution of its tactical game plan, which was set in motion by head coach Chris Grassie.
There will be a lot of eyes on the West Virginia Power’s inaugural season in the Atlantic League, which starts with a sneak-peek of three exhibition games this weekend at Appalachian Power Park and gets real next Friday, May 28, with the team’s season opener against the Southern Maryland Blu…
It’s difficult to explain and downright impossible to wrap a mind around, yet there is no denying the facts.
As a WVU beat writer, I don’t want to step on the toes of my Huntington-based co-workers, but I’d be negligent if I didn’t dedicate at least a few paragraphs to the Marshall men’s soccer team today.
Most college sports fans in our area don’t pay much attention to soccer.
Why can’t people just leave well enough alone?
