Marshall Sports Archive
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- Monday was just the third day of Marshall's preseason football camp and the first in shells (helmets and shoulder pads), but ......

Monday, August 8, 2011
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- Marshall's Devin Arrington has yo-yoed from safety to linebacker and, now, back to safety during his collegiate football care ......

Friday, August 5, 2011
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- Vinny Curry's T-shirt was soaked in sweat as the clear skies paved way for an unforgiving summer sun to beat down upon hi ......

Friday, August 5, 2011
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- Hype, hype, hype. It has followed Travon Van around since he stepped on Marshall University's campus as a ballyhooed four ......

Friday, August 5, 2011
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- No need to use a milk carton to find the "missing" players from Marshall's preseason football roster. T ......

Thursday, August 4, 2011
Tickets are still on sale for the 14th annual Paint the Capital City Green celebration Aug. 18.Festivities begin at 6 p.m. and the formal program begi ......

Thursday, August 4, 2011
HUNTINGTON - One month from today, Doc Holliday will lead his Marshall Thundering Herd onto a football field in Morgantown against his alma mater. ......

Thursday, July 28, 2011
IRVING, Texas - Marshall senior defensive end Vinny Curry - who has been staring out at drivers from Herd promotional billboards throughout the re ......

Monday, July 25, 2011
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) - Marshall University will open the 2015 football season at home against Purdue.Purdue originally was set to make its first tri ......

Monday, July 25, 2011
Christopher Cline's $5 million will be matched to help build indoor practice center
CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A $10 million donation helped jumpstart plans last week for a $25 million indoor practice facility and research center at Marshall ......

Wednesday, July 20, 2011
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- There is a side of Tom Herrion you probably don't know. He loves to golf and keeps his clubs and spikes in the back of hi ......

Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Editor's note: This is the second of a three-part series. The writer spent two days on the road with Marshall University men's ......

Monday, July 18, 2011
Editor's note: This is the first part of a three-part series on the life of a college basketball coach. This writer spent two ......

Thursday, July 14, 2011
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Marshall Athletic Director Mike Hamrick announced Wednesday a home-and-home football series with the Naval Academy.The ga ......

Tuesday, July 12, 2011
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Donald Brown, who started all 12 games at strong safety for Marshall's football team last season, was dismissed from the ......

Monday, July 11, 2011
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- Marshall safety Donald Brown has been dismissed from the football team for an undisclosed violation of team rules. Marshall an ......

Thursday, July 7, 2011
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The last time Marshall had a nationally ranked basketball team, in 1971-72, Mike D'Antoni was the Herd's high-scoring poi ......

Friday, July 1, 2011
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- In his more than two decades as an NCAA Division I athletic director, I doubt Mike Hamrick has run into Mizaru, Kikazaru and Iwaz ......

Thursday, June 30, 2011
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Prior to the opening tip of a Marshall basketball game, when the music is blaring and the crowd is whipped into a frenzy, Shaq ......

Friday, June 24, 2011
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- Athletic Director Mike Hamrick announced that Mike D'Antoni and Chad Pennington will serve as co-chairs for a Capital Campaig ......

Wednesday, June 22, 2011
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Former Marshall University football player Conelius Jones is pondering whether or not he wants to be a student-athlete. J ......

Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Marshall spring football practice is six weeks in the rearview and two-a-days are a half dozen more weeks away.  I haven't heard the sque ......

Thursday, June 9, 2011
Arik Sikula experienced every range of emotion Wednesday. The Marshall University pitcher was awaiting word as the Major League Baseball First-Year Pl ......

Thursday, June 9, 2011
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- The spelling has not changed, but somewhere along the line new Marshall assistant basketball coach Jorge Fernandez decided to ado ......

Friday, June 3, 2011
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- Marshall forward Aundra Williams won't return for his senior season.Head basketball coach Tom Herrion announced the move Frid ......

Thursday, June 2, 2011
Marshall fans might bump into 4-star high school basketball recruit Kevin Ware at a sporting event this fall, but it won't be in Orlando, Fla. War ......

Tuesday, May 31, 2011
HUNTINGTON - In college football, depth charts are written in sand, especially in the offseason. Marshall Coach Doc Holliday, with input from ......

Thursday, May 26, 2011
Column: Chuck McGill
CHARLESTON, W.Va.  -- Tom Herrion to Penn State? It's hard to find a list of potential candidates for the Nittany Lions' vacant men&# ......

Wednesday, May 25, 2011
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Johnny Thomas said he went "back and forth" on his decision to leave the Marshall, but that "certain family ma ......

Thursday, May 19, 2011
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The high temperatures flirted with 80 and there was nary a cloud in the sky this week in Destin, Fla., site of Conference USA ......

Wednesday, May 11, 2011
If you think Tom Herrion is concerned about winnowing down a 2011-12  roster bloated like some major rivers to the NCAA maximum 13 scholarships, ......

Thursday, May 5, 2011
Column: Chuck McGill
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- My wife suckered me into this month-long diet, which is more feasible with the Marshall football and basketball seasons, plus ......

Wednesday, May 4, 2011
With an indoor practice facility officially past the drawing-board stage, it seems Marshall athletics is about to come in from the cold.The aggressive ......

Sunday, May 1, 2011
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Brandon Hogan cracked his eyelids wide enough Saturday morning to glance at his cell phone. It was an incoming call ... from the ......

Saturday, April 30, 2011
BOSTON (AP) - The New England Patriots have gone back to the tight end spot in the draft by taking Lee Smith of Marshall in the fifth round.The s ......

Friday, April 29, 2011
HUNTINGTON -- Three wooden easels in the corner of the room of a Marshall University Board of Governors meeting Thursday morning displayed artist rend ......

Thursday, April 28, 2011
Column: Chuck McGill
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- It is imperative to not let the spring ball doldrums manifest into something more than fleeting pessimism. Basically, don't l ......

Monday, April 25, 2011
CHARLESTON, W.Va. - This year's Coal Bowl between Marshall and West Virginia universities may force a decision for some West Virginian ......

Sunday, April 24, 2011
If you're a fan of in-state college football and want to watch the 76th NFL Draft for the names of former West Virginia and Marshall players later ......

Sunday, April 24, 2011
Martinez has sure hands rewarded
HUNTINGTON - Tron Martinez leaned against a wall inside the Shewey Building on Saturday, not long after Marshall's annual Green-White spri ......

Sunday, April 24, 2011
HUNTINGTON - Chris Martin is a point guard. Damier Pitts is a point guard. Martin, however, considers himself a scorer. Of course, Pitts led the M ......

Saturday, April 23, 2011
HUNTINGTON -- Marshall received another men's basketball pledge Saturday morning. Chris Martin, a 6-foot point guard who played at prep ho ......

Thursday, April 21, 2011
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - As a head coach, Doc Holliday is conflicted when he watches a play unfold at a Marshall football practice. He can't s ......

Thursday, April 21, 2011
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- Going first-to-third is no big deal. Worst-to-first is something the Pittsburgh Pirates dream of every season.Corey Tenney has a ......

Wednesday, April 20, 2011
HUNTINGTON -- Marshall will play Cincinnati in a non-conference men's basketball game in the upcoming season, sources told the Daily Mail ......

Wednesday, April 20, 2011
Column: Jack Bogaczyk
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- At Marshall, watching spring football practice is really painful. It's not like that for we knights of the keyboard up in the ......

Wednesday, April 20, 2011
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- Antavious Wilson had sat out for most of Marshall's spring football drills, but Tuesday afternoon made his return. Ironically ......

Monday, April 18, 2011
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Marshall senior starting pitcher Arik Sikula had a solid starting pitching performance, striking out five and allowing four hits ......

Monday, April 18, 2011
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- "The D.J. Hunters and the Evan McKelveys," is what Coach Doc Holliday referred to them as after a recent football pract ......

Friday, April 15, 2011
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- The Marshall University men's basketball team has more incoming scholarship players than departing seniors, making attrit ......

Friday, April 15, 2011
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- It was supposed to be a secret. Chris Jasperse, who is battling for the starting center job on Marshall's football team, came ......

Thursday, April 14, 2011
Lack of depth and experience are issues Marshall coaching staff have worked on during practice
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- Doc Holliday witnessed it. A chunk of yards gained on the ground here, a wide running lane opening over there. Maybe, just maybe, ......

Wednesday, April 13, 2011
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Tyson Gale stood inconspicuously in the back of the room as Marshall Coach Doc Holliday gushed about his 2011 recruiting clas ......

Tuesday, April 12, 2011
HUNTINGTON - The benefits of hiring Gerad Parker as the football program's wide receivers coach last month were two-fold for Marshall University. ......

Monday, April 11, 2011
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- Tyler Warner converted all five of his field goal attempts in Marshall's intrasquad situational football scrimmage Saturday a ......

Thursday, April 7, 2011
HUNTINGTON - Phil Ratliff hollered. He hustled down the field, those old lineman arms flailing. He leaped in the air and bumped shoulders with tig ......

Wednesday, April 6, 2011
HUNTINGTON - Conelius Jones' conversion from quarterback to wide receiver Wednesday had more to do with an incomplete roster than his incomple ......

Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Wide receiver has flourished catching passes in practice after his struggles last season
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- Louise King named her son Isaiah Jazzmond King, and nicknamed him "Jazz" because of her love for the style of music. Ja ......

Tuesday, April 5, 2011
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- Marshall freshman linebacker Brian Robinson has been dismissed from the team.Head coach Doc Holliday said Tuesday in a news rele ......

Tuesday, April 5, 2011
First-year safeties coach spent past seven seasons as assistant at Georgia, WVU
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- Oftentimes, Marshall defensive coordinator Chris Rippon is the one flipping the lights off in the Shewey Athletic Building after ......

Sunday, April 3, 2011
HUNTINGTON - Excluding special teams, Marshall's returning football players have started 289 career games: 139 on offense, 150 on defense. That se ......

Thursday, March 31, 2011
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- Shane Farrell understands that when he toes the rubber tonight for Marshall's baseball game at Rice, his family's attenti ......

Thursday, March 31, 2011
Marshall's McKelvey learning the ropes from Brown during practice
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- Marshall free safety Omar Brown draped his right arm over the shoulder of freshman defensive back Evan McKelvey during the first ......

Wednesday, March 30, 2011
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- Doc Holliday and I chitchatted on the phone Monday - the eve of the start of spring football drills at Marshall. The second-year ......

Tuesday, March 29, 2011
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Quarterback A.J. Graham was No. 1 - his jersey and on the depth chart - as Marshall's spring football drills commenced at ......

Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Marshall will attempt to develop offensive line during practice period
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- From inside the Shewey Athletic Building office of Marshall Coach Doc Holliday, you can see the playing surface inside of Joan C. ......

Sunday, March 27, 2011
Corocco's health helps consecutive games streak
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- Last season, Marshall's "Iron Man" noticed he was getting a little doughy. Kenny Socorro, a 5-foot-8, 180-pound ......

Friday, March 25, 2011
Column: Jack Bogaczyk
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The players' and coaches' names may change, but there's something about Marshall football that you can count on as mu ......

Thursday, March 24, 2011
Column: Chuck McGill
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- I'm not smart, or Shaka Smart, but try to follow me on this one.  The Virginia Commonwealth Rams face the Florida State ......

Thursday, March 17, 2011
Analysis
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- Tom Herrion's inaugural season at Marshall came to an end, perhaps a bit prematurely, in the first round of the CollegeInside ......

Tuesday, March 15, 2011
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- Marshall Coach Tom Herrion, who preaches defense, tried to guard against a letdown. He didn't want to see the Herd's NIT ......

Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Marshall was without Pitts in 65-57 victory against Ohio on Dec. 4
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- Tom Herrion has 49 career losses on his coaching ledger. And it is safe to assume he didn't make every shot or field ever ......

Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Column: Jack Bogaczyk
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Making some racket about the bigger bracket: The new "First Four" to tip off the NCAA Tournament? The two-night doubleh ......

Sunday, March 13, 2011
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- On college basketball's "Selection Sunday," Marshall got snubbed before it got selected. The Thundering Herd men ......

Saturday, March 12, 2011
Memphis wins C-USA title
EL PASO, Texas -- While the Conference USA tournament championship game was being played Saturday morning, the Marshall men's basketball team ma ......

Friday, March 11, 2011
EL PASO, Texas - Not even Paydirt Pete's pickax could have helped Marshall dig out of Thursday's 23-point first-half hole.  The Miners ......

Friday, March 11, 2011
EL PASO, Texas - The No. 1 is done.Conference USA Tournament top seed UAB, the league's regular-season champion, is out of the single-elimination ......

Friday, March 11, 2011
Cabell delegate says game brings business to Huntington
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The House of Delegates wants to make sure the annual WVU-Marshall football game continues. Between the lengthy readin ......

Thursday, March 10, 2011
EL PASO, Texas -- Dago Pena flashed three fingers in the air after his third consecutive 3-pointer fell through the hoop. Marshall's Dominican-bor ......

Wednesday, March 9, 2011
EL PASO, Texas - It took East Carolina Coach Jeff Lebo a couple hours to accomplish what Donnie Jones has yet to do in Conference USA: win a tournamen ......

Wednesday, March 9, 2011
EL PASO, Texas -- Marshall guard DeAndre Kane stood in the tunnel of the Don Haskins Center on Tuesday talking to the media about his Conference USA F ......

Tuesday, March 8, 2011
EL PASO, Texas - A year ago this week, the Houston Cougars men's basketball team pulled off the unlikely feat of winning four games in four days a ......

Tuesday, March 8, 2011
EL PASO, Texas -- Once again, Marshall boasts Conference USA's top freshman. Thundering Herd guard DeAndre Kane was honored by the league Tuesday ......

Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Chuck McGill writes -- from El Paso, Texas:DeAndre Kane was honored Monday as a Conference USA third-team all-league pick.Kane is obviously solid ......

Tuesday, March 8, 2011
EL PASO, Texas - Here in the Lone Star State on Wednesday, Tom Herrion will coach Marshall in the Conference USA tournament for the first time. But, a ......

Monday, March 7, 2011
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- Before coaching his first regular-season finale at Marshall on Saturday night, Tom Herrion, donning a green b ......

Sunday, March 6, 2011
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) - Damier Pitts scored 25 and dished out eight assists to lead Marshall to an 83-69 win over Central Florida on Saturday night ......

Friday, March 4, 2011
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The boos will undoubtedly rain on UCF Coach Donnie Jones on Saturday night, cascading all the way down from Herd Heaven. Soon aft ......

Thursday, March 3, 2011
EL PASO, Texas - UTEP shot 60 percent from the field and defeated Marshall, 82-74, in a Conference USA men's basketball game on Wednesday. The Thu ......

Wednesday, March 2, 2011
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- Southern Miss basketball Coach Larry Eustachy opined Tuesday on the state of Conference USA as the regular season nears ......

Tuesday, March 1, 2011
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- Shaquille Johnson admits it took some time for him to adjust to keeping his shooting shirt on past the opening tip. Instead of be ......

Tuesday, March 1, 2011
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Marshall faces Houston tonight at 9 with a 2-4 record, not 1-5, in Conference USA. The latter record is what would have been had ......

Monday, February 28, 2011
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- You can look at the standings to discern just what a jigsaw puzzle this Conference USA basketball race has become, or you can sim ......

Monday, February 28, 2011
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- When Marshall freshman DeAndre Kane got T'd up, it could have prompted a team meltdown. The technical foul call came afte ......

Friday, February 25, 2011
The Conference USA hoops race is like the Pythagorean theorem -- you just can't figure it out. Really, lame decade-old references aside, this ......

Thursday, February 24, 2011
HUNTINGTON - The Golden Hurricane wasn't so golden Wednesday night. Marshall's Tirrell Baines, on the other hand, played like what he is. &quo ......

Wednesday, February 23, 2011
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- Marshall has filled one of its two vacant assistant football coach positions, a source told the Charleston Daily Mail. Gerad Park ......

Wednesday, February 23, 2011
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- It was written about ad nauseum last season. The three meetings between Tulsa and Marshall was all about the bigs - Jerome Jo ......

Wednesday, February 23, 2011
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Talk about your long droughts ...  Since Marshall last played an NCAA Tournament game, 273 schools have made an appearance i ......

Tuesday, February 22, 2011
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- Tulsa Coach Doug Wojcik is a West Virginia boy who has settled "out in the Wild West," as he put it Monday.That seems a ......

Monday, February 21, 2011
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- If UCF can defeat UTEP in El Paso, Texas tonight, half of Conference USA's men's basketball league will be within one gam ......

Sunday, February 20, 2011
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - DeAndre Kane scored 20 points, including the go-ahead 3-pointer in the final minute, and Marshall defeated Tulane 79-75 in overtime ......

Friday, February 18, 2011
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- Marshall's last three-game winning streak was before Christmas. Life was much different then. Neither glowsticks nor the ghos ......

Thursday, February 17, 2011
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- On one game-altering second-half hustle play, Marshall point guard Damier Pitts came up with one more rebound than the entire Ric ......

Wednesday, February 16, 2011
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- Marshall senior Arik Sikula has experienced the highest of highs, and lowest of lows, during a high school and college baseball c ......

Wednesday, February 16, 2011
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- There is no denying that points scored is an important statistic in basketball. Example: the Marshall men's hoops team. The T ......

Tuesday, February 15, 2011
West Virginia's football scheduling situation isn't much different right now than its 2011 head coaching setup. Things are "in waiting.&q ......

Monday, February 14, 2011
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Marshall basketball Coach Tom Herrion said he was "blindsided" by last Wednesday's 16-point home loss to UAB. Altho ......

Friday, February 11, 2011
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- A former Rivals.com 4-star football prospect has been added to Marshall's 2011 recruiting class. Dwayne "D ......

Friday, February 11, 2011
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- Marshall basketball Coach Tom Herrion hopes to see a different team when his Thundering Herd plays at East Carolina on Saturd ......

Friday, February 11, 2011
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- In Thursday's press release announcing Marshall's 2011 football schedule, Athletic Director Mike Hamrick said it is & ......

Friday, February 11, 2011
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- Conference USA and Marshall University released the Thundering Herd's 2011 football schedule Thursday. Marshall Athletic ......

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