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Peace is the secret to Legg's pressure-free kicking

MORGANTOWN — For someone who has not played all that much football in his life, West Virginia kicker Casey Legg does not get rattled very easily.  In a tied game battered with heavy rain where there were four seconds on the clock against an opponent his team had never beaten in ...

COLUMN: Greene supplied the spark WVU has been missing

MORGANTOWN — For weeks, WVU coach Neal Brown has talked about wanting to use backup quarterback Garrett Greene on offense more. Greene showed exactly why Saturday, coming off the bench to lead four scoring drives in a gritty win over Oklahoma. Brown had thus far been unwilling to have ...

SAMUEL: Drought and heat causing wildlife problems

MORGANTOWN -- The hot November days have really impacted the bow deer season. Bucks are rutting and does are ready, but the abnormal hot weather has impacted their movement in the day.  Harvests are being made, but those big bucks just aren’t moving much during the day. One rule of thumb: I always used the temperature at night. When the temperature got below 45 or so, I found that buck movements in November increased and sightings did, too.  I had friends in Kansas two weeks ago hunting on private land where big bucks are common, yet the hot weather really limited ...

WVU's versatile bigs giving team some power in the paint

MORGANTOWN -- It was a collection of the unknowns and maybe the rarely seen. Just two games into this season, though, WVU’s bigs are becoming, well, a big story. Take Friday’s 81-56 victory against rival Pitt inside the Petersen Events Center, for example. The Mountaineers (2-0) ...