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<title>Hurry-up slowing down Herd offense</title>
<description><![CDATA[HUNTINGTON - You know the football season is starting to beat you down when you find yourself reliving a moment from 2007. You know, the year when the Thundering Herd lost Albert McClellan to a season-ending injury before the first full-pads practice. The ...]]></description>
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<title>A week later, Herd fans still in SADness</title>
<description><![CDATA[MARSHALL COACHES and players had their reasons, all legitimate, for welcoming a week off after that Nov. 1 meltdown at Central Florida. One hopes they hunkered down in their brick cocoon known as the Fred &amp; Christine Shewey Athletic Building, completel...]]></description>
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<title>Knight moves, Cowherd and crowd counting</title>
<description><![CDATA[ORLANDO, Fla. - With Marshalls game being late, late Sunday night, were going completely off-topic here. Cocoa Beach isnt bad, but its no Pensacola. When you see the whit sands of the Gulf Coast, you get spoiled. By comparison, the Atlantic beaches look li...]]></description>
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<title>Herd needs November to remember</title>
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Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:52:08 -0400
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<title>Halfway home, still hope for Herd</title>
<description><![CDATA[THIS COMES a game past the seasons midpoint for Marshall, but heres one hysteria-free evaluation, both of the Thundering Herds effort against West Virginia, and of the season in general. <li>First, it was refreshing to see a Marshall team, in the words of ...]]></description>
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<title>Big plays, sure tackling key for Herd against WVU</title>
<description><![CDATA[FOR STARTERS, we can be reasonably sure that Marshall and West Virginia have never, on the same day, dusted off opponents in domed stadiums by exactly 21 points each. And this week, they play each other for the ninth time. And once again, its anxiety time ...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[MUCH HAS been said about the role of luck in life, love and football, and I hesitate to quote any of it. But I shall. Here goes:<li>&quot;Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.&quot; (Seneca, 1st century Roman philosopher)</li>
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Sun, 04 Oct 2009 21:54:41 -0400
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<title>At Memphis, the seat is really hot</title>
<description><![CDATA[WHILE AWAITING a magic-carpet ride off the mountaintop that is Yeager Airport, the marvels of technology allowed me to field a few queries from the gallery. One was this: Do I think Jim Donnan or Bob Pruett would like to get back into coaching at a certain...]]></description>
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Sun, 27 Sep 2009 21:52:38 -0400
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<title>Herd cant afford loss to Falcons</title>
<description><![CDATA[TRIVIA QUESTION: What was the worst defeat suffered by an eventual Conference USA champion or division winner. <li>nn</li>
It was nearly impossible for Marshall fans to take anything positive out of the Thundering Herds 52-10 emasculation by Virginia Tech....]]></description>
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Sun, 13 Sep 2009 22:50:22 -0400
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<title>Singing the 2-minute blues</title>
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<description><![CDATA[THERE WAS quite a bit of cussing and gnashing of teeth at Joan C. Edwards Stadium after Marshall sneaked out with a three-point victory over Southern Illinois. Some of it was justified. The first half wasnt very good, and the Herd was one takeaway from goi...]]></description>
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Sun, 06 Sep 2009 22:06:28 -0400
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<title>History says Herd could be in for tough test</title>
<description><![CDATA[OK, game week is finally here. Took long enough, didnt it.  Today is finally here, the best Monday in American sports, except maybe for the night of the NCAA mens basketball tournament final.Thats a definite &quot;maybe.&quot; While the basketball final is...]]></description>
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Sun, 30 Aug 2009 21:38:45 -0400
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<description><![CDATA[HUNTINGTON - Preseason football camp is over and the freshmen are hunting for the bookstore, so lets take a break from Xs and Os and the two-deep and just stir things up. Here we go ... <li>Let it be known: I fully agree with former Marshall athletic direc...]]></description>
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Sun, 23 Aug 2009 22:05:05 -0400
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