COLUMN: Don’t care about the Seahawks or Patriots? Let me help

February 7, 2026

I am not the best football prognosticator, as you’ve seen in these very pages. I’m not sure if I even had a prediction for what the Super Bowl LX matchup would be at the start of the season. If I did, though, I’m sure it wouldn’t have been the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks. So I’m not about to tell you who’s going to win when those two teams take the field Sunday night. But what I do know very well is what it feels like to not have a dog in this fight, a horse in this race, an Avenger in this Endgame. As a fan of the Washington – what’s their name right ...

Column: Jaguars have a Strange feeling heading into playoffs

January 9, 2026

Could a local kid make an impact in the NFL postseason this year? Stranger things have happened. At 1 p.m. Sunday in Jacksonville, Fla., Jaguars tight end and Parkersburg High graduate Brenton Strange will make his NFL playoff debut. The Jags last made the postseason in 2022, when Strange was a redshirt junior at Penn State. Jacksonville selected Strange in the second round of the NFL draft in 2023, and the former PHS star athlete has played a pivotal role in the changing of culture for the 2025 AFC South champions. Strange, in his third professional season, put up career-highs ...

Monday Morning Quarterback: No quick fix for WVU

December 1, 2025

If anyone needed to see the vast canyon between the 2025 West Virginia football team and the best in the Big 12 it was on display in brutal fashion in a 49-0 rout at the hands of Texas Tech Saturday. It was a humiliating afternoon and the worst defeat at home since 1891. With the current ...

Monday Morning Quarterback: Timing’s everything for WVU

November 24, 2025

Outcomes of games on a season football schedule can often depend to a great extent upon how a team and its opponents are playing at the time the game is played. That has been even more true during the West Virginia football season in 2025. The upset loss at Ohio in the second game was a ...

COLUMN: Kellogg kept composure amid nightmare scenario

November 20, 2025

MORGANTOWN — The 23rd-ranked WVU women’s basketball team will host Appalachian State at 10:15 a.m. today for its annual Education Day game. What that means is there will be about 10,000 screaming children bused in from elementary schools across the state. They will be loud. Their screams ...

Monday Morning Quarterback: Ground game grounded

November 17, 2025

For a few moments Saturday it appeared that West Virginia was going to steal a win at Arizona State and achieve an unexpected third consecutive victory. With six minutes remaining the Mountaineers were on their own 10-yard line facing third-and-27. Looking to only gain a few yards field ...