MORGANTOWN — There are any number of reasons today as to why the WVU men’s basketball team could struggle against No. 3 Kansas on Saturday. Certainly recent history — not to mention current trends and a boatload of stats — suggest that the Mountaineers will indeed do just ...
MORGANTOWN -- One of these days, either inside the WVU Coliseum or perhaps over at Milan Puskar Stadium, the chants of de-fense, de-fense won’t fall on deaf ears. Those days are just not right now, which where it concerns the WVU men’s hoops team, is the one glaring defect in a sea of ...
When I read that wolves that had a parasite had a much higher chance of becoming the leader of the wolf pack, I was astounded. A parasite affected the behavior of a mammal. How could that happen? I found it all rather interesting, and I think you will, too. There is a microscopic organism that can only reproduce in cats, but it can thrive in most mammals. That parasite is Toxoplasma gondii, and a study of 26 years of wolf data analyzed the blood of 229 wolves and found the disease in some of the wolves. After reviewing all the blood data for 26 years, they ...
MORGANTOWN -- Tre Mitchell spent most of Thanksgiving Day vomiting due to a stomach bug running through the WVU men’s basketball team and not because he had some bad turkey and dressing. Having overcome that obstacle, Mitchell has since come back to form, and just maybe so have the ...
I know hunting season is drawing to a close, but last week I wrote about deer vision, and one of my readers wrote and asked why I haven’t written about another sense that deer have … their nose. Here is a little bit about a complex subject. Has this ever happened to you when hunting? On a cold November morning a hunter walks to his tree stand before daylight. He sits all day and sees nothing, but he knows there is a big buck in the area so the next morning he goes again. He notes the wind and enters the stand on a different path than the one he took the morning before. He sits ...
MORGANTOWN -- Tre Mitchell’s power move through the paint was cut off Friday night, and so the WVU forward went strictly to his instincts. Or, in this case, Mitchell simply flipped the ball up over his head from just a couple of feet in front of the rim and it went in. As the ...
