-The Penguins are headed down the stretch in what has been a truly amazing season to date. Let's remember that the Pens finished last in the East and second-to-last in the entire league last year. As it stands now, Sid and the boys have a chance tonight to tie New Jersey for the Atlantic Division lead and thus move into the second seed in the ( Read more... )

While there may have been more significant plays in Marshall's 33-7 loss to Tennessee Saturday, the sequence of events that said the most about the current state of Thundering Herd football occurred in the third quarter ( Read more... )

Hate the game ( Read more... )

As Marshall football’s four-bus convoy left the Manhattan Regional Airport at approximately 3 p.m. Central time Friday, something caught the travelers’ attention. Lo and behold, a buffalo farm was stationed no more than 50 yards from where the Marshall charter jet touched down a few moments prior ( Read more... )

During my first class at Marshall three Augusts ago, my political science professor said something that I doubt I'll forget anytime soon ( Read more... )

The 2006 National Football League season got underway last night with the Miami Dolphins swimming up to Heinz Field in Pittsburgh to take on the defending champion Steelers. If the ubiquity-minded NFL has its way, you'll be riveted by the action from now until February's Super Bowl ( Read more... )

When interviewed by USA Today in May about his role as Jack Lengyel in "We Are Marshall," Matthew McConaughey talked about the attitude that spurred the Marshall administration to revive the football team after the 1970 plane crash ( Read more... )

Well, here we are, mere hours from the kickoff of the first game of what is supposed to be a seven-game series between West Virginia's only two Division 1-A football programs. It really is a mystery to me, and countless others, why it's taken so long for the Friends of Coal Bowl to become a reality ( Read more... )

I grew up rooting for the West Virginia Mountaineers ( Read more... )

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat.-Franklin Roosevelt ( Read more... )