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<title>Some sports personalities can be taken for granted</title>
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<title>State natives have had impact at WVU, Marshall</title>
<description><![CDATA[There are many families in our state that have the &quot;Marshall-WVU House Divided license plates. Youve seen them. They make the perfect statement for parents who have a child that has attended each school.With the playing of Saturdays game, its a time t...]]></description>
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<title>MU homecoming triggers Oak Hill memories</title>
<description><![CDATA[At Marshalls homecoming game Saturday, one member of the homecoming court was Miranda Rosiek of Oak Hill, daughter of former Marshall baseball star Randy Rosiek. Older fans in Fayette and Raleigh counties may remember Rosiek. He was an outstanding multi-sp...]]></description>
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<title>Dungy, Fodor, Blanda and other underrated QBs from recent past</title>
<description><![CDATA[QUARTERBACK IS the glamour position in college football. If they stay healthy, this years Heisman Trophy race could feature such quarterbacks as Floridas Tim Tebow and Colt McCoy of Texas, as well as Darryl Clark of Penn State as a dark-horse candidate.Loo...]]></description>
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<title>Gainer tribute spurs memories of former state coaches</title>
<description><![CDATA[THERE IS no better high school stadium in West Virginia than the one that crosses over into Virginia, Mitchell Stadium in Bluefield. And last Friday night, Mitchell Stadium never looked better. A crowd estimated at 12,000 was on hand for the Beavers game w...]]></description>
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<title>Some fond memories of southern West Virginia football</title>
<description><![CDATA[ITS A great time of the year. High school football starts next weekend in the Mountain State. I have lived in McDowell, Kanawha, Cabell and Putnam Counties, and here are a few memories I think about from time to time as we head into the season:<li>Big Cree...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[IN THE 1970s, AAU basketball was big, but it was not the big business is it today.  During that decade, the Kanawha Valley and the state of West Virginia made quite a showing on the national scene as a nucleus of 14- and 15-year-old players won national to...]]></description>
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<title>MUs Hamrick hire triggers Hoover football memories</title>
<description><![CDATA[THIS WEEKS hiring of former Herbert Hoover High School football star Mike Hamrick as the new director of athletics at Marshall triggered a lot of football memories for fans on Elk River.  Hamrick played for the Huskies during their most successful gridiron...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[The recently played U.S. Youth Soccer Association Region 1 tournament was a great event here. But now comes something better. A qualifying tournament for the Little League World Series, the Southeastern Regional 11-12-year-old baseball tournament, will be ...]]></description>
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<title>Salvatore became voice of Huntington</title>
<description><![CDATA[Ernie Salvatore may have been the most gifted sports writer in the state of West Virginia. He also may have been the most important!Salvatore, who served as a sports writer, editor and columnist for the Huntington Advertiser and The Herald-Dispatch for app...]]></description>
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Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:04:44 -0400
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<title>The building is gone, but not the memories</title>
<description><![CDATA[SEVERAL WEEKS ago, they tore down the old DuPont Junior High School building near Belle.  For many of us from the eastern end of the Kanawha Valley, it was our junior high. For my mother-in law-and her siblings, it was their high school. It is always sad t...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Some mid-June thoughts rolling through my mind while wondering if Tim Floyd feels that one year of O. J. Mayo was worth it at USC: <li>Several weeks ago, I wrote a story about the 1970 Charleston High baseball team. The story pulled at the heartstrings of ...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[THE WEEK of the state high school baseball tournament is a fun time of the year in our state. Over the years we have seen many outstanding teams and players. Jefferson had a run of five Class AAA state titles in the 1990s. In the 1980s, the road to the AAA...]]></description>
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<title>Death of a baseball dream 39 years ago</title>
<description><![CDATA[Over the years, we have had many teams from the Kanawha Valley that have won state championships. This is a story about one that didnt. But maybe it should have.  The 1970 Charleston High baseball team was coached by basketball coaching legend Lou Romano. ...]]></description>
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