West Virginia teams go 3-13-3 on first day of pool play
Photo By: Chris Dorst
BARBOURSVILLE - In the days leading up to the U.S. Youth Soccer Association Region 1 tournament, the spotlight belonged to the state of West Virginia, which had been showcased to the thousands of athletes, parents, fans, coaches and referees from across the Eastern United States who descended upon the Tri-State area for the six-day event.
THE TREND for colleges around West Virginia has been to recruit fewer in-state athletes. Fairmont State obviously hasn't seen those figures.
BOB MARCUM, who departed his "retirement job" as athletic director of Marshall University on Tuesday, was generally popular among his employees and decidedly unpopular among Thundering Herd fans.
RADICAL, EARTH-SHAKING change is coming to Conference USA.
CALL IT the long arms race.
OK, SO West Virginia's Tyler Urban isn't exactly a legend yet - although, last season, he was the first Mountaineer tight end to catch a touchdown since 2005.
IT WAS a safe bet, of course, that Tuesday's South Atlantic League All-Star Game at Appalachian Power Park would attract a respectable crowd.
LAS VEGAS - BY DAY, I talk poker; by night, I play poker. This came as quite a surprise to Toni - a.k.a. She Is The One (And Then Some) - who assumed I just impersonated a poker player on TV to allow us to eat at Outback Steakhouse once a month.
RIVALS.COM and Scout.com provide Sports Nation with an invaluable service: They keep us up-to-date, as we should be, on the top high school prospects being recruited for student-athlete status at our institutions of higher learning.
ALL THE rain this weekend at the U.S. Open at Bethpage got me thinking a bit about Sam Snead and how his lack of that title is really the only thing keeping him from elite status among golf's biggest stars.
SEVERAL WEEKS ago, they tore down the old DuPont Junior High School building near Belle.
SINCE I'M the father of five children ranging in age from 11-28, my thoughts are with many fathers on this day. Here are some dads with Mountain State ties that I am thinking of on this Father's Day:
In case you weren't impressed with Huntington St. Joseph's romp through Class A girls basketball last season, the Fighting Irish have a little surprise in store for 2009-10.
Sissonville's football team gets to experience life on the other side this year.
BARBOURSVILLE - Though college scouts are unable to actively recruit during the U.S. Youth Soccer Region 1 Championships, there were plenty on hand to watch prospects or view the progress of players that have already committed.
The South Atlantic League schedule has given the West Virginia Power a chance for redemption.
Huntington sportswriter Salvatore dies at age 87
For much of Ernie Salvatore's half-century of Huntington sportswriting, the Thundering Herd football team fell considerably short of respectability.
With opening ceremonies in the books, games begin today
HUNTINGTON - State Sen. Robert Plymale (D-Wayne) turned to West Virginia Soccer Association President Len Rogers and joked that Rogers had put the Village of Barboursville in a position of "Not build it and they will come, but they're coming, build it."
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