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• West Virginias John Holliday: The New Marshal at Marshall

  
  Bleacher Report — Authority: 770
  When John “Doc” Holliday returned to West Virginia to join Coach Bill Stewart’s staff, many assumed that he would be the next head coach when Stewart eventually stepped down. This theory was given some added credibility when Holliday was named “associate head coach” and given a salary much higher than ...
  4 days ago

• Remembering Bengals Wide Reciever Chris Henry: How Could We Forget?

  
  Bleacher Report — Authority: 770
  After sitting out his first season of college football, former West Virginia wide receiver, Chris Henry, began to live—as a football star—in 2003. Henry became a starter for Rich Rodriguez’ Mountaineers and didn’t stop there. After catching 41 passes, scoring 10 touchdowns, and gaining just over 1000 yards, ...
  5 days ago

• WVU Reacts to Henry’s Death – West Virginia MetroNews

  
  Memmis.com News Agency — Authority: 171
  CBC.ca WVU Reacts to Henrys Death West Virginia MetroNews Former WVU football player Chris Henry has died . Charlotte-Mecklenburg police say the Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver died around 6:30 Thursday morning ... Bengals Receiver Dies After Accident New York Times Chris Henry ...
  6 days ago

• West Virginia Football: Situation Normal...

  
  Bleacher Report — Authority: 770
  The gong was banged on Mountaineer football twice this decade, both as a result of someone, or some entity, heading for the exit. Miami, Virginia Tech, and Boston College took the first jetliner out of the Big East during the expansion of the Atlantic Coast Conference to twelve schools.  Three years later, former ...
  6 days ago

• West Virginia Joins ACT-17 Conference Amid Big-10 Raid (Humor)

  
  Bleacher Report — Authority: 770
  (Morgantown, W. Va.)  The athletic department administration of West Virginia University, wishing to remain nameless for obvious reasons, combined with the president of the university, also anonymous, to announce the schools charter membership in a newly-minted athletic conference.  "The ACT-17 Conference was ...
  6 days ago

• Farewell Bobby Bowden Farwell Gator Bowl, Hello History

  
  Bleacher Report — Authority: 770
  West Virginia and Florida State are tied at No.3, for most appearances in college football’s Gator Bowl. FSU’s record is much better at 5-0-1, while WVU is 1-5 all-time. The 2010 Gator Bowl will see these two teams return, to tie them with Florida at No. 2 in all-time appearances. However, this seasons Konica ...
  1 week ago

• The 10 Best West Virginia Running Backs of All-Time

  
  Bleacher Report — Authority: 770
  Sit back and enjoy the ride. I will walk—or run—you through the 10 best running backs to ever don a West Virginia football uniform. Production and length of time played are both heavily considered. Please comment and let me know if you agree, or what you would do differently. I feel there is a heavy lean ...
  1 week ago

• Higher Ed in W. Virgina is a Growth Industry

  
  Campus Entrepreneurship — Authority: 117
  We often talk of the campus as a great place to launch a venture because it is a healthy marketplace — both in aggregate and in many specific niches. Here is some evidence from my neighbors in West Virginia. A recent study by West Virginia’s Higher Education Policy committee shows great growth in enrollment year ...
  1 week ago

• WVU 24, Rutgers 17: About Right

  
  Bleacher Report — Authority: 770
  A smart football man (Bill Parcells?) once said: You are what your record is. At 9-3, West Virginia is currently: -- A second-place Big East team. -- Capable of playing a perfect game and beating a Top 10 team at home (Pitt). -- Capable of playing a perfect game and just losing to a Top 5 team on the road ...
  2 weeks ago

• Virginia Tech to the Gator Bowl is a (Supposedly) Done Deal

  
  CollegeGameBalls: College Football at its Finest — Authority: 551
  I received a tip that the Hokies have a handshake deal in place to play in the 2010 Gator Bowl against either Cincinnati or West Virginia. If Cincinnati beats Pittsburgh (Saturday 10/5 at noon) we’ll play the Mountaineers otherwise it’s the Bearcats. The source is extremely confident and in the know. But, like ...
  3 weeks ago

• Mountaineer Nation: The Hate Affair with Rich Rodriguez

  
  Bleacher Report — Authority: 770
  Im not on the fence on this one, but I am the fence because I think people on both sides are going to be ticked off at something I write in the next few inches. We all know emotion runs high, especially when it comes to college football. Most West Virginia fans will want to deny that they care about Rich Rodriguez ...
  3 weeks ago

• Lets Assume Tiger Woods Played Football for West Virginia in 1979

  
  Bleacher Report — Authority: 770
  Tiger Woods is a 33 year old man among boys. He has chosen 1979 West Virginia in which to fulfill his frustrated football fantasies because a) when you take off the flannel shirts and the Levis 505s and put those Mountaineer women in Donna Summer spandex, its a good thing, and b) he therefore angers the boys because ...
  3 weeks ago

• For West Virginia, a Win Is a Win Is a Win, but Look a Little Deeper

  
  Bleacher Report — Authority: 770
  Looking a little deeper at the West Virginia win over ninth-ranked Pittsburgh is essential to understanding the current state of the Mountaineer football program.   Here are the good points WVU is 8-3, and fans are disappointed. When I was in college back during the Paleolithic era in 1975, the Mounties were ...
  3 weeks ago

• WVU fans get bad rap nationally

  
  WVU PressBox — Authority: 152
  This is about you, Mountaineer Nation. It’s about your passion, about your heart, about how you’ve changed over the years for the better and about how you haven’t changed, also for the better. A couple of weeks back SI.com did a survey on fans in the major conferences. Full Article at: TimesWV
  3 weeks ago

• WVU wins 76 Classic Championship

  
  Inside Pittsburgh Sports — Authority: 485
  Da’Sean Butler scored 26 points to lead eighth-ranked West Virginia to an 84-66 victory over Portland in the championship game of the 76 Classic at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, Calif., Sunday night. The tournament title was West Virginia’s first in-season tournament title since 2001 when it captured ...
  3 weeks ago

• West Virginia-Texas A&M: Devin Ebanks is Back, Baby

  
  Bleacher Report — Authority: 770
  The Mountaineers of West Virginia played three games without starting forward Devin Ebanks. Ebanks is touted as the best player on the team, in many cases.  Well, on Friday, Ebanks finally got the call. The Mountaineers—amidst the 76 Classic in Anaheim—were taking on the Aggies of Texas A&M, in the ...
  3 weeks ago

• West-Virginia-Pitt: My Apology to Jarrett Brown

  
  Bleacher Report — Authority: 770
  In my preview of the Backyard Brawl that I wrote yesterday, I took Pitt quarterback Bill Stull over WVUs Jarrett Brown. In my reasons for this I said that time after time, "JB has broken down in big situations when the team needed him the most." This line echoed over and over again in my head as the Mountaineers ...
  3 weeks ago

• Mountain Semiors Are Lurking

  
  CollegeGameBalls: College Football at its Finest — Authority: 551
  Right now in Morgantown crimes of passion are taking place against dilapidated plaid, torn faux leather and hand-me-down stained couches.
  3 weeks ago

• WVU beats Pitt 19-16

  
  Inside Pittsburgh Sports — Authority: 485
  Tyler Bitancurt’s fourth field goal of the night, a 43-yarder as time expired, prevailed West Virginia (8-3) to a 19-16 win in the 102nd edition of the Backyard Brawl. The loss ended Pitt’s five game winning streak but the Panthers can still earn BCS Conference Bid and win the Big East Crown with a [...]
  3 weeks ago

• Know Thy Enemy: Baltimore Ravens

  
  Nice Pick, Cowher | A Pittsburgh Steelers Blog — Authority: 116
  After playing the Baltimore Ravens three times last season, including an epic AFC Championship game, it’s safe to say the Pittsburgh Steelers know this enemy quite well.  And if familiarity breeds contempt, these teams must outright hate each other by now.  Pittsburgh sports has a number of great rivalries, ...
  3 weeks ago

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