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This one could be Super
February 5, 2012 The Super Bowl. It’s the biggest single-day sports event in the world. Bigger than the Daytona 500. Bigger than the Kentucky Derb. more »»
Meyer lands top-5 class of recruits
February 4, 2012 College football fans get all excited and hyped up each year about how their favorite teams did on National Signing Day. more »»
Basketball teams stick together
February 3, 2012 Now that the calendar has hit February, basketball games take on a little more importance. One great aspect of any true team is being able to pick one another up when someone falter. more »»
New gig for Reds’ Mesoraco
February 2, 2012 Normally, I associate Punxsutawney, Pa., with the movie “Groundhog Day” in which actor Bill Murray plays a TV weatherman who lives the same day over and over. more »»
Koerber adapts to new role
February 1, 2012 Athletes and coaches understand that roles change from season to season. Even from game to game. more »»
Why do we love football?
January 31, 2012 As one who gets home from work well after midnight and goes to sleep several hours later, I was under the mistaken impression there is only one 8:30 each day. more »»
Bad calls are a part of the game
January 30, 2012 WVU was robbed. That was virtually the unanimous feeling throughout the Mountain State following West Virginia University’s 63-61 loss to Syracuse at the Carrier Dome on Saturday afternoo. more »»
Wednesday should be good day for Buckeye?fans
January 28, 2012 National Signing Day for college football is now just four days away on Wednesday, Fe. more »»
Wrestling as a team
January 27, 2012 Ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle probably had it right when he came up with the idea that the whole is more than the sum of the parts. more »»
Golfer comes up aces
January 26, 2012 There’s no exact science to making a hole-in-one. Unless your name is Dan Patterson of Parkersburg and you happen to be standing on the No. 4 tee at Worthington Golf Course in Parkersburg. more »»
Signing day is one week away
January 25, 2012 Seven days, or one week. Which ever way you look at it, that’s when Mountaineer fans will know the members of the football recruiting class of 2012. more »»
Patriot wrestling in league of its own
January 24, 2012 Mention the name Parkersburg South to any Mountain State sports fan and the first thought that pops into their head is wrestling. And with good reason. more »»
NFL is down to Final 4
January 22, 2012 The Final Four. It’s a term usually associated with the four semifinalists in the annual NCAA Basketball Tournament. Today, it takes on a different meaning. more »»
OSU football recruiting class up to No. 3
January 21, 2012 Ohio State’s football recruiting commitments sure have soared since Urban Meyer took over the program, and so has the Buckeyes‘ national recruiting status, which has jumped all the way up to N. more »»
Tallmans square off
January 20, 2012 The Tallmans are keeping it all in the family this weekend. On Saturday afternoon, Dave Tallman coaches against Dave Tallman as Magnolia meets St. Mary’s Ryken (M. more »»
Help on the way at Calhoun
January 19, 2012 It’s not been an unexpected season thus far, to say the least, for veteran Calhoun County head wrestling coach Mike Stum. more »»
WVU-MU is a game of emotion
January 18, 2012 To one of the combatants in tonight’s Capital Classic, the annual meeting between the Mountain State’s two NCAA Division 1 programs is just another non-conference contest. more »»
South has pulled off comeback
January 17, 2012 Parkersburg South’s boys basketball team was struggling. In Mike Fallon’s second year as head coach, South was off to a 2-5 start and appeared to be going nowhere. more »»
Mary ‘O’ set the standard
January 16, 2012 Let’s hear it for the girls! The number of females in the West Virginia Sports Hall of Fame is about to increase with the upcoming inductions of basketball standouts Mary Ostrowski of Parkersburg... more »»
College grid season really never ends
January 14, 2012 College football may have ended for most on Monday night when West Virginia native Nick Saban’s Alabama squad blanked LSU 21-0 to win the BCS national championship. But it really never ends. more »»
Wrestling showdown in the books
January 13, 2012 Whenever the wrestling programs from Parkersburg and Parkersburg South get together it’s always interesting. Wednesday night inside Memorial Fieldhouse wasn’t any differen. more »» |
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