MORGANTOWN — If Neal Brown hadn’t been sitting behind a table and a microphone, you would have sworn, for just a moment, the WVU head football coach was conducting some sort of skills camp. There Brown was, while sitting in a chair, mind you, simulating running a route — arms pumping ...
MORGANTOWN — Full disclosure here: I’ve always been a stats and numbers kind of guy, even as a little kid. My fascination with sports cards as a youngster wasn’t for the picture on the front, it was to read and memorize all the rushing yards and batting averages on the back. And I ...
MORGANTOWN -- Before we even bother getting into the total debacle that was Texas’ 38-20 victory Saturday night against West Virginia at Darrell K. Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium, we take you back to last week. You may remember that night in Blacksburg, Va., a big Black-Diamond domination ...
MORGANTOWN -- The winds of college realignment blow hard and in all directions. And once the storms have finally settled — if they ever truly do — it leaves behind unsettling future facts such as California schools USC and UCLA soon playing conference games in the state of New Jersey ...
I am part of a generation — Generation Z — that has a faint recollection of 9/11, if any at all. We weren’t even teenagers during the 2008 recession. And ever since, our lives have been slammed by a series of seemingly never-ending tribulations.We grew up living in constant fear of gun violence. We worry about the state of our planet because of delayed action on climate change. We are still struggling due to the impact COVID-19 has had on social interactions and education.Yet, we have also been a generation deeply hungry for something different. Something that deviates from the ...
The world economy is in the doldrums, pessimism is rife around the world, and most young people, according to one survey, believe climate change means the end of human life on Earth.Yet a better future beckons, if we can only begin to look outside ourselves, and even beyond our planet. It is in space that we may find solutions to some of our most pressing problems, including a workable energy strategy and access to the precious minerals needed to sustain our prosperity.Space has always held a special place in our collective imagination. Missions to Mars, the mining of asteroids and the ...
