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24 May 2010
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – Seven outstanding contributors to Mountaineer athletics make up the 20th class of honorees in the West Virginia University Sports Hall of Fame, announced today by Director of Athletics Ed Pastilong.
The 2010 class includes Eddie Barrett, Marc Bulger, Bobby Carroll, Bill Karr, Ann-Marie (Pfiffner) Johnson, John Radosevich and Ronnie Retton.
Induction ceremonies will take place this fall at a date to be announced. This class brings the total number of inductees to 128.
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21 May 2010
Many have the Big Ten taking as many as four Big East teams to grow their conference to 16 football teams. Thus completely demolishing the potential for the Big East to continue as a viable BCS football conference.
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18 May 2010
MORGANTOWN - Monday was the first day incoming players could report for West Virginia's football program.
Almost all of them will wait until separate reporting dates next month, but Coach Bill Stewart was happy to see safety Travis Bell, quarterback Barry Brunetti and cornerback Ishmael Banks on campus and giving themselves the best chance to play right away.
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17 May 2010
They repeated that phrase to each other all the time, reminding themselves that after three years on campus, they'd both be bolting for the NFL. During the buildup to the Gator Bowl in January, the plan remained the same.
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15 May 2010
I came across a link to an interview that Bill Stewart did on the web site The Solid Verbal. The interview is about three weeks old, yet still relevent. Stewart covers a range of topics with the shows hosts, Ty Hildenbrandt and Dan Rubenstein. It is a lengthy interview, about 25 minutes with Stewart.
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15 May 2010
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - Changes in Big East Conference basketball could change the contract for West Virginia University Coach Bob Huggins.
Four conference schools fired and hired coaches this offseason and three others agreed to revise contracts with their current coaches. All of the new coaches were hired at salaries above their predecessor's and each of the extended contracts gave the coaches more total compensation.
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13 May 2010
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - Given his place in West Virginia basketball history and the way things ended on the floor at Lucas Oil Stadium in the Final Four, Da'Sean Butler understands people are concerned and curious.
He just wants people to understand something. That ending will not be his ending.
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04 May 2010
MORGANTOWN - It's hard to characterize West Virginia's spring drills as anything but a rousing success, at least based on the finish.
Talk about your feel-good endings - one of the largest crowds in the history of the Gold-Blue game watching the best of the Mountaineers rough up the rest of the Mountaineers by a tidy 38-0 count.
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19 April 2010
For the first time in more than a decade, WVU football will open a season with its defense representing the strength of the team. The Mountaineer defense returns 16 players from the 2009 two deep
The six players lost to graduation from the 2009 defensive two deep were Reed Williams and Ovid Goulbourne from the linebacking corps, safeties Nate Sowers and Franchot Allen and reserve cornerbacks Guesly Dervil and Kent Richardson.
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19 April 2010
In a recent interview, Austin compared himself to Carolina Panthers wide receiver Steve Smith. How could a sophomore running back at WVU compare himself with a potential NFL Hall Of Fame wide receiver? Surely, Austin had taken too hard of a hit by Robert Sands in practice, prior to making that comment.
Somehow, I was missing something. I decided to compare Austin and Smith myself.
