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<title>Partial WVU hoops schedule released</title>
<description><![CDATA[CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The Big East has released the names of the league schools West Virginia University will play in mens basketball for the 2009-10 regular season.In the leagues third season of an 18-game league schedule, the Mountaineers will host Cincin...]]></description>
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Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:24:38 -0400
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<title>Big deal my foot</title>
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<title>WVU stumbling on practice facility project</title>
<description><![CDATA[CALL IT the long arms race.Its the race to land blue chip basketball recruits. Its the race to become a national championship contender.West Virginia University officially entered that race back in April of 2007. On the fifth of that month, athletic direct...]]></description>
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<title>WVU QB Eugene Smith breaks bone in foot</title>
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<title>Continued wait on mysterious WVU recruit</title>
<description><![CDATA[MORGANTOWN - Odds and ends and a few things I think I think after spending a torturous six straight days on three different championship golf courses:<li>Oh, so you think thats the sweet life. Well, maybe it would have been had I swung a single club during...]]></description>
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<title>Urban planning to build on 08 success</title>
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Sat, 27 Jun 2009 22:01:11 -0400
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<title>Stew upbeat about Finau, other news</title>
<description><![CDATA[MORGANTOWN - On Tuesday, West Virginia football coach Bill Stewart welcomed a couple of former Mountaineer players - John Thornton and Charles Fisher - to Touchdown City. This weekend, hes expecting a welcome addition to his team.According to the coach, de...]]></description>
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<title>WVU updates 2009 football schedule</title>
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Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:53:27 -0400
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<title>Casey on deck, WVU hoops recruiting, Mazzulla</title>
<description><![CDATA[THE SUBJECT might be basketball and not baseball. But in regard to West Virginia University, theres a lot of anticipation around the state. For Casey will soon be at the bat.Casey Mitchell, a talented shooting guard from Chipola College, said he turned dow...]]></description>
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Sat, 20 Jun 2009 21:00:41 -0400
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<title>JC receiver ruled ineligible</title>
<description><![CDATA[MORGANTOWN - Nine members of West Virginias freshman class are already enrolled in school and working out this summer. Most of the rest are expected a week from Sunday, the day before the second semester of summer school begins.But one signee wont be comin...]]></description>
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Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:42:42 -0400
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<title>WVUs Butler picked for World University Games</title>
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Thu, 18 Jun 2009 22:49:18 -0400
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<description><![CDATA[MORGANTOWN - Just as it was at this time last year, West Virginias search for quarterbacks in next years recruiting class is over. The Mountaineers can only hope that this time it stays over.West Virginia has gotten its second commitment from a highly rate...]]></description>
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<title>Sanders paying price to return</title>
<description><![CDATA[MORGANTOWN - All things considered, Jock Sanders probably needs West Virginias football team more than it needs him. And if one accepts that premise, the fact that Bill Stewart is allowing the suspended receiver/running back a glimpse of daylight is more a...]]></description>
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<title>WVU lands Columbus standout</title>
<description><![CDATA[West Virginia University has received a basketball commitment from Elijah Macon, a 6-foot-8 forward at Marion Franklin High School in Columbus, Ohio.Macon, who will be a sophomore this coming season, attended the Mountaineers Elite Camp in Morgantown this ...]]></description>
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<title>Defense could be better than OK</title>
<description><![CDATA[MORGANTOWN - There are no doubt better candidates than J.T. Thomas if youre looking for someone to critique the defense West Virginia will put on the field this fall. Oh, its not that Thomas isnt capable of forming an opinion. He can give you a pretty good...]]></description>
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Sat, 13 Jun 2009 20:51:02 -0400
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<title>Yanks pick White in 48th round</title>
<description><![CDATA[Major League Baseball hasnt forgotten about West Virginia University quarterback and Miami Dolphins rookie Patrick White. The New York Yankees selected White in the 48th round on the third and final day of MLBs first-year player draft. He was the 1,455th p...]]></description>
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<title>Rich Rod rues messy split</title>
<description><![CDATA[        MORGANTOWN - Rich Rodriguez admits that over the course of the past 18 months hes probably made more than a few mistakes. On the long laundry list of those for which many West Virginians might like an explanation, though, this one ranks pretty far ...]]></description>
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Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:48:15 -0400
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<title>Richardson still waiting for a chance</title>
<description><![CDATA[MORGANTOWN - When West Virginias football team begins fall practice in roughly two months, the most pressing issue facing a defense that is otherwise set at most positions is at cornerback. So what else is new, right.And in the mix there is Kent Richardson...]]></description>
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<title>WVU QB recruit has familiar ring</title>
<description><![CDATA[STOP ME if youve heard this before. A high school quarterback makes waves with his electrifying moves, mostly via his feet. Major-college football programs come after him, including the ones close to home, but wish for him to play defensive back rather tha...]]></description>
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<title>Huggins stresses need for practice facility</title>
<description><![CDATA[Although fund-raising continues and architectural plans are in place, West Virginia University wont begin work this year on its proposed basketball practice facility.Basketball coach Bob Huggins, for one, cant stress enough the importance of the project.  ...]]></description>
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Fri, 05 Jun 2009 22:19:04 -0400
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<title>Spreading the magic</title>
<description><![CDATA[In his last visit to the golf course at Berry Hills, West Virginia football coach Bill Stewart brought his A game - on one hole, at least.He holed out his approach shot for an eagle on the par-4 No. 10 in last years WVU Classic. &quot;A blind squirrel find...]]></description>
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<title>Clarke puts weighty issues behind him</title>
<description><![CDATA[MORGANTOWN - Ryan Clarke reports to the Puskar Center five days a week this summer, more than happy to endure whatever it is Mike Joseph and West Virginias strength and conditioning staff have planned for him that day. Oh, if hed only had the chance to do ...]]></description>
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Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:38:31 -0400
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<title>Full house expected for WVU Classic today</title>
<description><![CDATA[Jeff Christian has taken over for Jack Cippoletti as the event director of the WVU Classic, a Charleston fund-raising event for Mountaineer athletics.&quot;Yeah, Christian said wryly. &quot;[Cippoletti] was with me [Wednesday] night. Had a big smile on his...]]></description>
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Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:47:02 -0400
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<title>Nehlen thankful for docs diagnosis </title>
<description><![CDATA[ON WEDNESDAY, former West Virginia University football coach Don Nehlen walked off the fourth green at Charlestons Berry Hills golf course. It was a milestone of sorts for him. It was a historical marker of sorts.For it was there, almost one year ago to th...]]></description>
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Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:39:29 -0400
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<title>Kentucky contracts; WVU-MU series critics</title>
<description><![CDATA[MORGANTOWN - Cleaning out a crowded notebook and a cluttered mind while trying to understand what is so difficult about getting a job that pays in excess of $1 million a year, signing a contract for that job and then going to work: <li>Me. Id sign that suc...]]></description>
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Mon, 01 Jun 2009 22:32:39 -0400
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<title>Still one more hill to climb</title>
<description><![CDATA[MORGANTOWN - Mike Joseph will spend the next two months trying his best to get West Virginias football team in shape without crossing a couple of very difficult lines. First, the schools strength and conditioning coordinator cant afford to work the Mountai...]]></description>
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Sat, 30 May 2009 22:36:35 -0400
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<title>Not failing to help</title>
<description><![CDATA[Football icon Robert Alexander spent much of Saturday reminiscing with old friends and even posing for pictures at Little Creek Golf Club in his hometown of South Charleston.His primary focus, however, was the days golf outing and memorabilia auction to ra...]]></description>
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Sat, 30 May 2009 22:38:52 -0400
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<title>Monkey wrench in future schedules</title>
<description><![CDATA[MORGANTOWN - It was interesting, to say the least, to start plotting out West Virginias future football schedules after the school announced a handful of additions and revisions last week. Interesting for two reasons:<li>First, it is clear that under the n...]]></description>
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Wed, 27 May 2009 22:44:31 -0400
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<title>WVU future football schedules</title>
<description><![CDATA[Here are West Virginias tentative football schedules through the 2015 season. Vacancies listed are based on the schools current non-Big East scheduling philosophy of playing two Bowl Championship Series opponents, two non-BCS opponents and one Football Cha...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[West Virginia University basketball guard Darryl &quot;Truck&quot; Bryant is one of 17 college players selected to attend the 19-and-under USA National Team Trials June 16-18 at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo. The Brooklyn nativ...]]></description>
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Wed, 27 May 2009 23:01:45 -0400
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<title>WVUs Gyorko finalist for Brooks Wallace Award</title>
<description><![CDATA[West Virginia Universitys and Morgantown native Jedd Gyorko has been named as a finalist for the Brooks Wallace Award, given to the nations best college shortstop. Among the five candidates, Gyorko leads the field in batting average (.421), doubles (28) an...]]></description>
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Wed, 27 May 2009 23:03:00 -0400
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<title>UC playing WVU in basketball</title>
<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday, University of Charleston mens basketball coach Greg White was on an ocean cruise in Alaska.On Dec. 5, his team will have a whale of an opportunity.Both White and West Virginia University coach Bob Huggins confirmed Tuesday that UC will visit Mo...]]></description>
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Tue, 26 May 2009 21:02:56 -0400
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<description><![CDATA[OK, SO it was an easy pitch to hit.There was Big East associate commissioner John Paquette explaining that his leagues meetings in Ponte Vedra, Fla., were wracked by rains and heavy winds.And I, of course, had to shoot back that most of their meetings were...]]></description>
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Tue, 26 May 2009 22:57:21 -0400
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<title>Summer ritual: yoga.</title>
<description><![CDATA[MORGANTOWN - Stop by the Puskar Center on just about any weekday during the next two months and what one is likely to see can range from the mundane to the bizarre.Yes, there will be West Virginia football players there. They will be lifting weights, runni...]]></description>
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Tue, 26 May 2009 23:06:57 -0400
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<title>Trip to WVU a good deal for UNLV</title>
<description><![CDATA[AS UNLV athletic director Mike Hamrick spoke, he overlooked scenic Lake Coeur dAlene in Idaho.&quot;Its one of the most beautiful places Ive ever been, Hamrick said, &quot;but its not the Cranberry River in West Virginia.Indeed, Hamrick, who was graduated ...]]></description>
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Sat, 23 May 2009 22:28:47 -0400
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<title>WVU will face UNLV in 10</title>
<description><![CDATA[MORGANTOWN - West Virginia filled a handful of holes in its future football schedules Wednesday and at the same time adjusted a couple of other games to make the puzzle all work.The school announced it will play UNLV in 2010, completing its 12-game schedul...]]></description>
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Wed, 20 May 2009 22:39:32 -0400
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<description><![CDATA[MORGANTOWN - Ill be the first to admit it. There are things I do that make absolutely no sense, things that fly in the face of common sense and rational thought.I argue with my wife and kids and even grandkids, knowing full well that - right or wrong - I h...]]></description>
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<title>Butler accepts invite to World University trials</title>
<description><![CDATA[West Virginia University basketball player DaSean Butler has accepted an invitation to participate in the USA Mens World University Games team trials, to be held June 16-24 in Colorado Springs, Colo. Butler is one of 15 players invited to try out for the s...]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[MORGANTOWN - West Virginias list of football verbal commitments for 2010 rose to eight last weekend. Or was it seven.In the always-fluid, wholly premature world of reporting the whims of high school teenagers, who can ever be sure.Both of West Virginias pr...]]></description>
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Tue, 19 May 2009 22:16:14 -0400
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Mon, 18 May 2009 22:29:24 -0400
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<description><![CDATA[Six contributors to West Virginia University athletics make up the 19th class in the WVU Sports Hall of Fame, announced recently by Mountaineer athletic director Ed Pastilong. The class consists of Aaron Beasley, Fred Graham, Jeff Merrow, Kristin Quackenbu...]]></description>
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Mon, 18 May 2009 23:00:29 -0400
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<description><![CDATA[MORGANTOWN - I just got around to actually reading the glowing press release distributed by the NCAA 10 days ago regarding the latest round of Academic Progress Rating numbers. Its a veritable thesaurus of glowing descriptions of the rise in the numbers du...]]></description>
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Sat, 16 May 2009 21:55:11 -0400
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<description><![CDATA[MORGANTOWN - At some point during the next four or five years - who knows, perhaps as soon as this fall - Taige Redman is likely to find himself on the same college football field as Kalial Glaud. When they do, any conversation between the two is sure to i...]]></description>
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Thu, 14 May 2009 18:38:23 -0400
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<description><![CDATA[AT LEAST one big date on West Virginias next basketball schedule has been solidified. The Mountaineers will play host to Ohio State on Jan. 23.The kicker: The game will be televised nationally by CBS.Indeed, WVU coach Bob Huggins, associate athletic direct...]]></description>
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Wed, 13 May 2009 22:27:13 -0400
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<description><![CDATA[Former Musselman High kicker-punter Corey Smith has given up his scholarship at Alabama for a shot at joining WVU in 2010. According to the Martinsburg Journal, Smith received his release from Alabama Sunday and then spoke to WVU coach Bill Stewart, who ex...]]></description>
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Mon, 11 May 2009 23:14:40 -0400
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Sun, 10 May 2009 21:40:14 -0400
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<description><![CDATA[MORGANTOWN - Cleaning out a crowded notebook and a cluttered mind while assuming that Pat McAfees professional wrestling career is now officially over:<li>Did anyone notice that the Indianapolis Colts have released two punters since apparently setting thei...]]></description>
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