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<title>More WVU hoops scoops and a call for some common sense</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Ye olde notebook: <li>If you read this space regularly, you know theres been intrigue surrounding next seasons WVU mens basketball roster.</li>
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<title>Wallace carries state flag deep into NBA playoffs</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- It seems to happen all the time.A significant national sports story appears. And - well, Ill be darned - theres a West Virginian in the mix.Earlier in the NBA season, Mullens native Mike DAntoni was trying to manage the mess that was t...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 18 May 2013 22:06:27 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Filling an SC legacy; WVU hoops recruiting</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Ye olde notebook:<li>South Charleston High students and graduates know all about the plight of school product Aaron Dobson, recently drafted by the NFLs New England Patriots.</li>They probably know of Robert Alexander, another school p...]]></description>
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<title>Dibo might be Huggins most intriguing signee</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- FORMER CASPER (Wyo.) College basketball standout Remi Dibo was wrestling between scholarship offers from Memphis, Washington State and West Virginia when he took a recruiting visit to Morgantown.Mountaineer assistant Erik Martin ha...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2013 21:38:01 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Catch em while you can</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2013 21:16:34 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Huggins unleashes the  no heard round the state</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The conversation lasted around 30 seconds. WVU basketball coach Bob Huggins answered two questions with two words.Yet the answers spoke volumes about the immediate course of the Mountaineer hoops team.The first question had to do with ...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 21:24:48 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Big 12 meetings, Grantham, WVU and Akers update</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Ye olde notebook: <li>The Big 12 conference coaches and athletic directors recently concluded meetings at the Arizona Biltmore Resort and Spa in Phoenix. (What, your company doesnt send you to a resort and spa for meetings.)</li>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2013 20:47:28 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>For Trickett, Morgantown has always been home</title>
<description><![CDATA[            CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- IF YOU WANT to know why former Florida State quarterback Clint Trickett chose to finish his career at West Virginia University, simply check out his Twitter page.In his profile picture, hes dressed in hunting camo. His prof...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 21:53:08 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>WVUs Smith unsurpassed in regard to publicity</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- There have been many comments tossed around concerning former WVU quarterback Geno Smith.Yet there is one undeniable truth.While he wore No. 12 at WVU, he is No. 1 all-time among Mountaineers in regard to publicity. The attention paid ...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 22:48:19 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>The scoop before MUs first shovel of dirt</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- There are two moments that stand out en route to todays groundbreaking of Marshall Universitys athletic indoor facility.One signifies the struggles to get to the 2 p.m. Huntington dirt dig. It happened on Sept. 10, 2005, before the Thu...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 23:11:40 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Is WVU a loser in conference shuffling.</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- If you havent followed the College Conference Carnival lately, you might have missed that the Atlantic Coast Conference added Louisville as its 14th member late last year.You might have missed that recently the ACC effectively tied its...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 22:25:24 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Not much from WVU scrimmage to lift expectations</title>
<description><![CDATA[MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - WVU football coach Dana Holgorsen might put some people off at times. Once in a while, though, hell nail a quote. Like on Saturday, after the Gold-Blue spring scrimmage game at Milan Puskar Stadium.&quot;I think it resembled football,&q...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2013 21:28:59 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>FSU QB coming to WVU.</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Ye olde notebook: | West Virginia Universitys football team might just be signing a new quarterback.On Wednesday, Florida State released quarterback Clint Trickett from his scholarship, allowing him to transfer and play this coming sea...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2013 18:06:20 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Gold-Blue viewing guide, Grantham, more spring football</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The views from here:<li>When WVUs football team takes the field at 2 p.m. this Saturday for its annual Gold-Blue scrimmage game, most will be watching the quarterbacks.</li>
Indeed, that will be interesting. Does the younger, stronger ...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 21:16:28 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Strength in toughest battle</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Many in the Mountain State know the legend of Willie Akers. The Mullens native was a key teammate on the terrific WVU basketball teams during the Jerry West era. Hes one of Wests very best friends. After playing professionally for the ...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 21:17:44 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Huggins challenge  to be played out soon</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- March Madness is great. Of course, its more fun to follow if you have a team in the hunt. This past season, Mountain State fans had two dogs in Marshall and WVU that were anything but in the hunt.Yet the hope is youre watching the Madn...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 30 Mar 2013 22:25:28 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Is MAC a better fit for MU.</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Fans. What are you going to do with em, right. Theyre never satisfied, unless a national title is delivered. Theyre always grumbling about something, and theyre forever looking in hindsight. Some WVU fans actually believe their program...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 22:46:21 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>WVU hoops future on display in Beckley</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Crabby WVU basketball fans, rejoice. You have an opportunity to experience a little sunshine.Probably.At the very least you can check out the future of your team on April 13 at the Beckley Convention Center.According to Bob Bolen, all ...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 22:31:43 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Crunching numbers: rushing in the Raid</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Its all about the brand these days.Nike has the swoosh. Frosted Flakes has Tony the Tiger. Progressive has Flo.Same with West Virginia Universitys football team. It has Dana Holgorsen and the &quot;Air Raid&quot; offense. (&quot;I dont...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 21 Mar 2013 21:35:09 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Linebackers, fields and All-Americans</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Ye olde notebook:<li>When you coach a major-college football team that allows Syracuse to rack up 38 points in something called the Pinstripe Bowl, youve got problems.</li>
When you allow an Orange player named Prince-Tyson Gulley to r...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 19 Mar 2013 21:18:08 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Adrians night, flying Bulletts and staffs</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Heres the book on Morgantown Highs Nathan Adrian, the reasons West Virginia coach Bob Huggins offered him a scholarship: Hes 6-foot-9.He can shoot.Hes good on the perimeter.Mountaineer fans who watched Adrian play in a loss to South Ch...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 21:22:44 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Perfect tip to the tourney, dunks and kudos</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Ye olde (tournament) notebook:<li>Forget the rocking chair. On Wednesday at the Civic Center, Lewis DAntoni was the rock star.</li>In a perfect start to the 100th edition of the boys state basketball tournament, SSAC officials asked th...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 21:10:52 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Welcome to Charleston, the states tournament capital</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Sometimes in our business we get so caught up in covering games, issues and events that we forget.In regard to todays start of the 100th boys basketball tournament, for instance, youll notice our extensive workup of the games and cover...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 21:10:18 -0400</pubDate>
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<title>Huggins, fans ask question as end of the road nears</title>
<description><![CDATA[MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - Driving from Charleston to WVUs Coliseum, I began to wonder what exactly I was doing. Sure, it was the Mountaineers last regular-season hoops game and senior day and all, but, um ... so. The home team was 13-17 heading into the game. Th...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2013 20:10:59 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Small town, big hearts and results</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The glow on the faces of Shealyn Shafer, Mykenzie Martin and Makayla Willis were as bright as neon. It was sort of like the outline of a grizzly bear on Nicholas Countys football scoreboard - a beacon for years to those traveling U.S. ...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 22:58:19 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>St. Joes MJ a star -- or should be</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- SHES THE MOUNTAIN States most underrated sports star.Which is strange.Bizarre, in fact.Because even though the junior seems down-to-earth and even-keeled, all about her screams Hollywood and TMZ.Shes committed to play hoops at Notr...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 06 Mar 2013 21:15:41 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Look for a reshaped WVU basketball team next season</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- By now, most West Virginia University sports fans have written off the Mountaineer basketball team. Spring football drills are near and their interest has turned back to that sport.As the Mountaineer basketball team runs out the regula...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 19:41:36 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>WVC commissioner Blizzard watches league melt away</title>
<description><![CDATA[    CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- THROUGHOUT THE FINAL West Virginia Conference basketball tournament, something was missing.And, for once, the reference isnt to fans. A pall covered the event. It was the last hoops tournament under the banner of the WVC.Sure, we s...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 02 Mar 2013 21:17:44 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Bringing the WVC show to a close</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Usually, this week gives me a spring in my step as the West Virginia Conference tournament hits Charleston.I get a spring in my step because, well, it signals spring is just around the corner. And I get a spring in my step because the ...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2013 21:10:38 -0500</pubDate>
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<title>Spotlight falls on Huggins, program</title>
<description><![CDATA[MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - The outcome of West Virginias 73-57 WVU loss to No. 14 Oklahoma State really wasnt the story Saturday at the WVU Coliseum.Mountaineer fans have seen that movie so many times, they know when the pratfalls and punch lines are coming. Perh...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2013 20:56:18 -0500</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Ye olde notebook:<li>On Thursday, I caught up to Martinsburg High hoops coach Dave Rogers.</li>To check on one of his players. To check on him.In case youre unaware, the recruiting process has been warming for the Bulldogs Donte Granth...]]></description>
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