MORGANTOWN — Football really is a simple game that we try and try to make more complicated.
Late Monday evening news broke from Yahoo Sports reporter Pete Thamel that six Conference USA schools would be leaving the league for the American Athletic Conference. Read more
MORGANTOWN — The bye week is over and the fate of West Virginia's 2021 football season hangs precariously in the balance, a three-game losing streak having been carried into the halfway point in the season. Read more
DENTON, Texas (AP) — Grant Wells passed for 323 yards and two touchdowns, ran for three more and Marshall routed North Texas 49-21 on Friday night. Read more
North Texas is a team riding a four-game losing streak into Friday’s clash with Marshall, but the Mean Green might be on to something with its quarterback situation. Read more
Roger Hodge said from the start when he was hired as WVU Tech's new women's basketball coach that he wants the program to take the next step. Read more
On paper, the battle between Marshall’s run defense and North Texas’ rushing attack is a bit of a mismatch in favor of the Mean Green. Read more
Second-year Rio Grande men’s basketball coach Ryan Arrowood wasn’t speaking for anyone else, but he expressed what most of the other coaches in the River States Conference are thinking. Read more
Willie Johnson is the elder statesman of the Marshall receiving corps this season, and when the Thundering Herd has needed a big play it has often been Johnson coming through for MU. Read more
MORGANTOWN — Neal Brown wasted little time getting right to the point as he opened his weekly media session Tuesday on a much-needed bye week, coming in the midst of a three-game losing streak that included a pair of gut-wrenching defeats followed by a total collapse at Baylor. Read more
MORGANTOWN — What happened to West Virginia Saturday as it was slapped around mercilessly by Baylor in Waco, Texas by a 45-20 score? Read more
WACO, Texas (AP) — Gerry Bohanon saw something in his Baylor teammates during the week with the offense coming off a poor showing that helped knocked the Bears out of the Top 25. Read more
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) — Grant Wells threw a 22-yard touchdown pass to Shadeed Ahmed in overtime to give Marshall a 20-13 victory over Old Dominion on Saturday. Read more
Saturday’s college football game in Huntington won’t just be a meeting between Marshall and Old Dominion with both teams aiming to end three-game losing streaks, it will be a meeting of good friends trying to make their marks as head coaches. Read more
athens — One of the nation’s best collegiate passing offenses will face off with a stingy defense on Saturday as the Concord Mountain Lions host West Liberty on homecoming day in Athens. Read more
Taevion Kinsey has been a lot of things for the Marshall men’s basketball team during his career in Huntington. Read more
Just like Marshall, Old Dominion comes into Saturday’s Homecoming game in Huntington riding a three-game losing streak, and that’s not where the similarities end between the two Conference USA programs. Read more
What began as a footnote and minor annoyance for first-year Marshall football coach Charles Huff snowballed into a full-blown crisis last Saturday. Read more
MORGANTOWN — The only thing that's been consistent about the West Virginia offense this season has been its inconsistency, and that is driving head coach Neal Brown and his offensive staff crazy as it gets into preparations for Saturday's game at Baylor. Read more
In each of Marshall’s last two games, the Thundering Herd has watched leads evaporate in the fourth quarter on their way to eventual losses. Read more
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — Good things happen when Texas Tech starts a backup quarterback against West Virginia. Read more
Marshall fans have been waiting for a breakout game from Xavier Gaines for a long time, and perhaps last week’s performance at Appalachian State was that game. Read more
Chase Cunningham wasn’t supposed to be the Middle Tennessee starting quarterback this season. Read more
David Ramella was recently inducted into the Marshall University Sports Hall of Fame in ceremonies held on the Marshall campus over the weekend of the North Carolina Central football game. Read more
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Another day, another ugly win for Oklahoma. Read more
The Mountain State has undergone a transformation into a soccer state in recent years, and on Friday the state’s two top-tier college athletic programs are set to meet on the field with bragging rights on the line. Read more
Marshall has been very good on offense in wins against Navy and North Carolina Central, with a lot of attention paid to the Thundering Herd’s passing attack led by standout quarterback Grant Wells. Read more
East Carolina has yet to win a game this season, but that doesn’t mean first-year Marshall football coach Charles Huff thinks the Pirates will be a pushover for his Thundering Herd. Read more
Marshall won easily last week against visiting North Carolina Central, but it was not all smooth sailing for the Thundering Herd against the Eagles. Read more
HUNTINGTON — Marshall was not at its best for Saturday’s home opener against visiting North Carolina Central, but fortunately for the Thundering Herd it didn’t need to be. Read more
Marshall opens the home portion of its 2021 schedule on Saturday with a visit from North Carolina Central, but make no mistake, the Thundering Herd knows the Eagles are no pushovers. Read more
There were more than a few external questions about Marshall’s offensive line going into last week’s season-opener at Navy, but internally MU’s coaching staff and players were not worried about how the rebuilt group would fare against the Midshipmen. Read more
Marshall was given the task of taking on a triple-option offense in its 2021 college football season opener last week when the Thundering Herd visited Navy, and by all accounts they passed that test with flying colors. Read more
It was not that long ago that the offensive line was considered among Marshall’s deepest position groups and one of the Thundering Herd’s definite strengths going into Charles Huff’s first season as the head coach at MU. Read more
A lot of ink — both literal and digital — has been used when it comes to Marshall’s plan to run a faster, up-tempo offense this season. If that plan works for the Thundering Herd and first-year head coach Charles Huff obviously remains to be seen, but one thing is certain — MU will need to m… Read more
MORGANTOWN — When West Virginia quarterback Jarret Doege decided in the off season to grow a beard, there were those among Mountaineers fans who figured it was a disguise after having been yanked for the second half of the last game he played, bailed out via a second-half WVU comeback over A… Read more
When Marshall visits Navy on Saturday for its 2021 season opener, it will feature the debuts and homecomings for two important members of the Thundering Herd football program. Read more
Marshall’s defense was the best in Conference USA and among the best in the country last season, and while it’s true the Thundering Herd lost some key pieces from that unit going into this season there are still very high expectations for MU on that side of the ball in 2021. Read more
huntington — Among the many changes the Marshall football program is undergoing in 2021, perhaps none will be more noticeable on the field than the Thundering Herd picking up the pace on offense. Read more
The jury is still out on how fall sports might be affected by the coronavirus in 2021, but the WVU Tech women’s soccer team just might be suffering from Covid hangover. Read more
huntington — There are high expectations placed on Marshall football for the upcoming season, and with one week of preseason camp under the Thundering Herd’s belt an apt description of where MU is would be to call it a work in progress. Read more
huntington — In what figures to be a season of change for the Marshall University football program, Alex Mollette is the model of consistency. Read more
Roger Hodge gave Kenny Howell fair warning. Read more
Former WVU Tech head men’s basketball coach Bob Williams is getting back in the game. Read more
huntington — Nothing has been normal about Charles Huff’s tenure so far as the head football coach at Marshall. Read more
As Roger Hodge was weighing all the options as whether or not to pursue the vacant WVU Tech women's basketball head coaching job, he went with the things he finds familiar. Read more
NORMAN, Okla. — Norman business and community leaders on Monday said they're excited about the possibility of the University of Oklahoma joining the Southeastern Conference. Read more
NORMAN, Okla. — It's official. Oklahoma and Texas want to leave the Big 12. Read more
Roger Hodge, a Hinton native who has over 200 career wins as a head coach at the NCAA level, has been named the new head women’s basketball coach at WVU Tech. Read more
Raleigh Collins III had heard about the exploits of former Neumann-Goretti football standout Leddie Brown long before he met the current West Virginia running back. Read more
morgantown — It was, to be sure, a Big 12 Football Media Day unlike any other they’ve ever had before. Read more
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