Published on: 2nd September, 2010
Give me a break. Mountaintop Mining Activists and Environmental Champions, known by some to be, how might you say, tree huggers, have spent today, a wonderful late summer afternoon in the mountains of West Virginia, calling the world's attention to how Nike and West Virginia University are destroying the mountains by issuing ...Published on: 2nd September, 2010
One look at the new West Virginia football uniform, and, in the words of Bill Stewart, they "leave no doubt". Nike's design pays tribute to the biggest, baddest football fans any college football team can have. As described by Zack Herold of the Charleston Daily Mail, the charcoal gray headgear has the flying ...Published on: 30th August, 2010
The end of August is upon us.We bleacher creatures have read and written and commented and returned comments. Then we read more, slept on it and awakened, only to do it all over again.We have spoken. Now it's the players' turn to talk, to talk in that commanding language, with their ...Published on: 24th August, 2010
September is always a special month. Parents are relieved, teachers are hopeful, students are fresh, and the pad cracking of two-a-days has ended. You're tired of hitting the same guys day in and day out. It's time to get after some new meat. A quartet of teams with new meat squares off against West Virginia in September ...Published on: 21st August, 2010
It was said by St. Peter, the first pope: "Rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, of all hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind." Words to live by in The Big East football conference. So, players of the eight teams in the league, listen up: Cut the resentment and definitely ...Published on: 18th August, 2010
The word “consensus,” which simply means “an agreement,” can be one of the finest words in sports. Think of how it would feel to be a consensus All-American, as the best minds of your sport got together and all agreed on your prowess. That’s heavy. Never happened to me, but ...Published on: 15th August, 2010
A little help here, please. I've checked out the lines. Please show me live odds for Coastal Carolina's road match-up with West Virginia. I can't find one. The Mountaineers are tied with Utah for 24th in the nation according to the USA Today coaches' preseason poll. WVU is also 24th in The Sporting News' preseason poll. The ...Published on: 12th August, 2010
It’s a wonderful day in the neighborhood! The time was 5:30 A.M. I read nice articles in the sports section of the Charleston Daily Mail this morning. I read sportswriters plying their craft on the promise of Mountaineer football; the running, passing, catching, blocking, tackling, hitting, hooting, and hollering and ...Published on: 11th August, 2010
I read the latest minor violations self-report on the Internet at 5:00 am today. Only helmets in the first two days of preseason workouts. Nothing else, especially the small "spider" shoulder pads. Pretty clear violation, but that's just great. That's all West Virginia football needs right now. I'm awake. This continuing parade ...Published on: 8th August, 2010
West Virginia has 18 starters returning for the 2010 campaign, nine on offense and nine on defense. Included in the offensive nine are four (!) offensive linemen. That offense is further augmented by a bunch of talented, albeit inexperienced, quarterbacks. Interestingly, the coaches' preseason poll tallies put the Mountaineers in a tie ...