HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – The Marshall University Alumni Association, in conjunction with 93.7 The DAWG, is kicking off the football season and new school year with its annual HERDFEST beginning at 6 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 1 at Pullman Square in Huntington. Read more
HUNTINGTON, W.V - Marshall Athletics will retire the #10 jersey of basketball legend Mike D’Antoni during a pregame ceremony on Sept. 10, when the Herd will host Southern Miss in the program’s 2011 home football opener.
HUNTINGTON, WV (HNN) - Huntington High football fans were greeted with a new scoreboard and watched as their team ran through the new nicely decorated Highlander CSX tunnel prior to taking on Lincoln County in the season's first football game. Read more
I’m not great with numbers, but I know enough to know that only a fraction of the people on the planet have experienced the feeling of being the very best at what they do. Read more
HUNTINGTON, WV - IMG, America’s home for college sports, has announced that the broadcast crew for this season’s Thundering Herd/IMG Sports Network football broadcasts will include Steve Cotton, Mark Martin, Adam Cavalier and Eric Matthews. Read more
HUNTINGTON, WV - Marshall Athletics has announced that the Marshall football game vs. Southern Miss on September 10th (3:30 p.m.) will officially be a “Kelly Green Out”.
Presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul has his own fervent army of followers. He advocates bringing the troops home from overseas, and, guess what, Paul has received the most donations from members of the military.Read more
HUNTINGTON, WV -Seniors Omar Brown, Vinny Curry, Tyson Gale and Ryan Tillman have been selected via a team vote to serve as captains for the 2011 Marshall Football Thundering Herd, the program announced Tuesday.
Anyone who was on the fence about the appeal of road course racing leading up to the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series event at Watkins Glen International on August 15 must now have surely cold-shouldered the “road courses are boring” side in favor of the side simply known as “wow.” Read more
HUNTINGTON, WV - The Marshall University men’s soccer team warmed up for its 2011 season on Wednesday afternoon with an exhibition match against the visiting VMI Keydets.Read more
CHARLESTON – The 14th annual Paint the Capital City Green celebration coming to Charleston Embassy Suites on Thursday, Aug. 18, is a sellout. Read more
The famous runner Steve Prefontaine was once quoted as saying, “Most people run a race to see who is fastest. I run a race to see who has the most guts.” Read more
When police captain Louis Renault sent his subordinates to “round up the usual suspects” after a shooting in the film “Casablanca,” they didn’t hesitate. They knew exactly who to look for. Read more
Sometime around 2 a.m. during a recent bout of insomnia, I happened across a rebroadcast of “The Dan Patrick Show.” In a stroke of good luck for me, Dale Earnhardt Jr. was one of the guests. Patrick, never afraid to ask the goofy questions, hit Junior with a real politically incorrect gem. He posed a scenario involving a gorgeous girl with a Jimmie Johnson tattoo; would Junior date her?
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – The Cline Family Foundation has announced a gift of $5 million to Marshall University to establish an endowment to support new faculty and scientists in the university’s planned sports medicine translational research center.Read more
Cathy Elliott compares David Ragan’s road to a win with Kentucky Speedway’s wait for a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series date and says Christmas has come to the Bluegrass State in a brown UPS car.
America is hooked on courtroom drama, but things sometimes seem to drag on forever; we’re seeing that right now in a couple of high profile, televised trials. It took Tony Stewart and Brian Vickers to give us a definitive example of how quickly the wheels of justice can turn when left to their own devices. No episode of “L.A. Law” could have told both sides of the story better.Read more
HUNTINGTON, WV (HNN) -Dave McCollam won the men's, Maria Busienei won the women's and Sherry Dawson won the wheel chair division in the 2011 West Virginia 5 K Run Championships held in Huntington on Saturday morning. Read more
I’m not saying my running buddies and I are shallow, but I’ll admit that we aren’t generally given to a great deal of philosophical discourse. As result, when someone does utter a pronouncement of any import, it is worth remembering.
HUNTINGTON, WV – Marshall University Director of Athletics Mike Hamrick has announced that former Thundering Herd athletes Mike D’Antoni and Chad Pennington will serve as co-chairs for a Capital Campaign to raise private money for Marshall’s new proposed athletic facilities. Read more
Michael Taylor and Andrew Haines are pleased to announce the acquisition of the Ultimate Indoor Football League by Assured Equities IV Corporation. Assured takes over control of the UIFL effective June 15, 2011. As part of the acquisition, UIFL Co-Founder Andrew Haines will remain as League President and a member of the Board of Directors, UIFL Co-Founder Michael Taylor will continue as a consultant and a member of the Board of Directors for Assured.
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NASCAR news was hitting me so quickly, and from so many directions, over the past week that I felt like I had accidentally stumbled into a boxing ring with Oscar De La Hoya, only to learn he wasn’t too happy with me for some reason. Ouch.
The culminating press conference with Oliver Luck and Dana Holgorsen is over, and things are quieting down a bit up in Morgantown. But what a cost to the fans of WVU and its football program across the state. Defenders of Oliver Luck will say that "hindsight is 20/20," but great leaders are possessed of foresight, at least to some degree. Luck should have seen the inherent difficulties with his two-coach arrangement from the start. Read more
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Former Marshall University baseball player and Major League Baseball all-star Jeff Montgomery will serve as special guest at the 2011ThunderFest Saturday, July 16, at Cincinnati’s Great American Ballpark. Read more
HUNTINGTON, WV. – Head coach Bob Gray of the Marshall University men’s soccer team has announced the signing of three incoming players to join the Thundering Herd in 2011.Read more
Embattled WVU Head Football Coach Bill Stewart will resign soon, perhaps as early as Friday. So say multiple sources in Huntington, Scott Depot, and Morgantown. According to one of the sources, Stewart will collect $600,000 as part of a deal with the WVU Athletic Department. Read more
No one knows what the outcome of the race will be when the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series heads to Kansas each year; if the season so far has taught us anything, we have learned to expect the unexpected. Read more
HUNTINGTON-WV (HNN) The Huntington Hammer with their 49-25 win over the Saginaw Sting on Sunday afternoon at the Big Sandy Superstore Arena puts them in the Ultimate Indoor Football League play-offs. Read more
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