Last year, South Charleston lost all the close ones. Friday night, the Black Eagles found a way to win one and stay undefeated.
MORGANTOWN - As the successor to Steve Slaton as West Virginia's tailback, Noel Devine has become a kind of superstar in waiting. Until just a few days ago, the guy hadn't even started a regular-season game and already there were ridiculously premature whispers about a Heisman candidacy and the like.
OK, Marshall fans, so your team didn't roll up 50 or 60 on Illinois State.
HUNTINGTON - Marshall's goal this fall, as articulated by coach Mark Snyder, is to get back to a bowl game.
IF SARAH PALIN wants to experience real scrutiny, she should become West Virginia University's football coach.
When the subject is the Big East's football performance this past weekend, cue the Grinch for his theme song "Stink . . . Stank . . . Stunk.''
THE 2008 NFL season, like most NFL seasons, will be littered with bad coaching, bad quarterbacking, bad announcing and, of course, bad replay challenges. And, in a time of uncertainty, the only certainty is that the New England Patriots will not go 19-0, even if they are 18-0 and 12-point favorites in Super Bowl 43.
Move over BeamerBall.com. Get ready for TonyDeMeo.com.
WE CAN ALL breathe a sigh of relief. College football is back. The turbulent roller-coaster ride of last December is over. 
RIPLEY - Executing its two-minute offense to near perfection, Ripley rallied for a 28-26 victory over visiting Greenbrier East Friday.
WINFIELD - With its offense struggling immensely and down two scores late in the game, Lincoln County looked lifeless and seemingly on its way to another defeat.
A little luck and the intrusion of television have given the West Virginia State football team an opportunity rarely available to Division II teams.
Bouncing back from last week's stunning 40-0 loss apparently won't be easy for the University of Charleston.
EASTLAKE, Ohio - The West Virginia Power kept its season alive Friday night, routing the Lake County Captains 10-0 to force a decisive third game in the best-of-three South Atlantic League Northern Division playoff series.
Scott Bibbee, winner of the West Virginia Senior Amateur Stroke Play Championship, won both of his head-to-head matches Friday to advance to the quarterfinals of the Senior Amateur Friday at the Edgewood Country Club in Sissonville.
A volleyball tournament scheduled for Woodrow Wilson High School will go on as scheduled today - but at Capital instead.
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