Nuclear scientist killing will have fallout

December 1, 2020

by Bobby Ghosh “Remember that name, Fakhrizadeh,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a 2018 press conference about Iran’s nuclear program. At the time, the head of the Islamic Republic’s nuclear weapons program was unknown even to most Iranians. With his assassination outside Tehran  Friday, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh has become a household name. The details of the killing are as yet fuzzy. State TV said  the scientist’s car was attacked by “armed terrorist elements,” and that he was taken to a hospital, where doctors couldn’t revive him. Some ...

Let’s give Trump’s followers something to howl about

December 1, 2020

by Leonard Pitts Gerald Ford was right. It was years before I understood that. I was 17 years old on the day in 1974 when the 38th president pardoned the 37th, Richard Nixon, for his crimes in the Watergate affair. Like millions of others — like Ford’s own press secretary, who resigned in protest — I was disgusted by this largesse. It wasn’t until years later that I came to see it as an act of political courage, freeing the country to move on from a sordid affair that had left us mesmerized and paralyzed. As Ford put it, had Nixon gone to trial, “ugly passions ...

COLUMN: Gabe Osabuohien, Taz Sherman make No. 15 West Virginia better, even if the box score doesn’t show it

November 27, 2020

MORGANTOWN, W. Va. -- It was well deserving that Derek Culver was named the MVP of the first-ever Crossover Classic after No. 15 West Virginia held off Western Kentucky on Friday, 70-64, for the tournament’s championship. Through three challenging games, Culver averaged 15 points and 10 ...

COLUMN: No matter how much No. 15 West Virginia improves, this bunch is destined to win ugly

November 26, 2020

MORGANTOWN, W. Va. -- Maybe it was the eight months of missing college basketball. Maybe it was the preseason hype that came with West Virginia getting ranked No. 15 in the country. Or maybe it was just some sort of misplaced belief that got us thinking that this group of Mountaineers ...

COLUMN: Morgantown High bought in to what Sean Biser was selling and now is a team to watch out for

October 30, 2020

MORGANTOWN, W. Va. -- We take you back for a moment to this summer — last July to be exact — back when Sean Biser was first installing his football philosophies during the three-week workouts to a bunch of kids at Morgantown High who barely knew who he was. “It’s almost funny ...

COLUMN: Taz Sherman, Sean McNeil will have a lot to say on how well West Virginia’s offense runs this season

October 12, 2020

MORGANTOWN, W. Va. -- The more you look at the equation, the more it seems to become blurred, maybe almost more difficult than it needs to be. There is no doubt that the play of both Derek Culver and Oscar Tshiebwe will have a major effect as to how much success the WVU men’s basketball ...