Limbo by Jim Buzzerd It’s early Tuesday morning and West Virginia University has yet to announce the hiring of a new athletic director to replace Shane Lyons who departed a week ago amid building turmoil surrounding head football coach Neal Brown. As the football team struggled this fall at times[Read More…]
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Seniors Gabriel Clark & Isaac Harris ready to lead Indians Wrestling in 2022-2023 season
Last high school wrestling season, the Berkeley Springs Indians qualified seven wrestlers to the Class A/AA State Wrestling Championships in Huntington. Four of those seven earned all-state honors and three of the four return back to the Indians line up this winter. Berkeley Springs enters the 2022-2023 wrestling season with[Read More…]
Buck season opens Monday, Nov. 21
West Virginia’s buck firearms season open this coming Monday, November 21 and remains open through December 4. During the season, hunters may take one antlered deer per day, and a maximum of three antlered deer during the season in conjunction with the appropriate licenses. Any deer kill must be registered[Read More…]
Chip Shots – Some fire after all
Some fire after all by Jim Buzzerd For several weeks there has been ongoing speculation about Neal Brown’s future as head football coach at West Virginia University. While there was widespread support to end Brown’s tenure at West Virginia as his team was 3-6 last week except for one gigantic[Read More…]
Everyday Outdoors: Slow down to “woods time”
Slow down to “woods time” It was West Virginia “Buck Season” — 1986. I didn’t know it, but I was about to learn a valuable lesson. I was sitting on steeply-leaning tree, which jutted out from an even steeper hillside, simply straddling the tree, as if riding a horse. A[Read More…]
Chip Shots – Smoke, no fire
Smoke, no fire by Jim Buzzerd What happens when the West Virginia University football team with just one conference win plays winless in conference Iowa State? The answer is the Mountaineers found a way to lose 31-14. West Virginia has now lost three in a row and is 3-6 overall[Read More…]
Chip Shots – WVU basketball opens Monday
WVU basketball opens Monday by Jim Buzzerd The West Virginia University football team continued its losing ways Saturday losing 41-31 to TCU at home. The effort was an improvement from last week’s shellacking at Texas Tech, but once again, critical mistakes at inopportune times cost WVU a chance to win.[Read More…]
Donovan Tanouye finishes third in Class State Cross Country Championships
by Jamie Harris The Class A State Cross Country Championships were held this past Saturday, October 29 at Cabell Midland High School.With an early morning start for Class A and decent weather it was a prime opportunity for runners to stake their claim to all state honors. However, the big[Read More…]
Wheeling Central pounds Indians 67-6
by Jamie Harris This past Friday night, October 28, Morgan Field was ready to honor senior band, cheer and football players while the young Indians foot- ball team was preparing for a challenge from the Wheeling Central Knights. The Indians took the opening kickoff and went to work. On a[Read More…]
Chip Shots – It is better to receive
It is better to receive by Jim Buzzerd The West Virginia University football team is six games into the 2022 season and it’s still difficult to handicap this team. Last Thursday night the Mountaineers got past visiting Baylor by a 43-40 count. The win leaves West Virginia 3-3 overall and[Read More…]
