Bob Hertzel
Columnist at The Times West Virginian
Veteran sports columnist giving you the inside on WVU sports as no one else.
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1 week ago |
wvnews.com | Bob Hertzel
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (WV News) — Wins come in all kinds of shapes and sizes and when you are winning as often as West Virginia is, they seem to feed off each other. On a cool, windblown Tuesday night in Huntington, facing in-state rival Marshall, whom the Mountaineers had defeated 7-0 earlier in the season, the Mountaineers gerrymandered its 11th straight victory in what is now a 31-4 season and did so out of little more than pride and guts.
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1 week ago |
timeswv.com | Bob Hertzel
MORGANTOWN — If the early returns mean anything, new West Virginia basketball coach Ross Hodge understands building a basketball team, and that’s the long and the short of it. His first signee was a 7-footer in UNC-Wilmington transfer Harlan Obioha and one of his earliest, and most important commits, is 5-10 guard Honor Huff, another transfer from Chattanooga. kAmr2== ‘6> |C] x?D:56 2?5 |C] ~FED:56[ :7 J@F >FDE[ 3FE :? 2 =@E @7 H2JD[ E92E’D H92E >@56C?
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1 week ago |
wvnews.com | Bob Hertzel
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (WV News) — If the early returns mean anything, new West Virginia basketball coach Ross Hodge understands building a basketball team, and that's the long and the short of it. His first signee was a 7-footer in UNC-Wilmington transfer Harlan Obioha and one of his earliest, and most important commits, is 5-10 guard Honor Huff, another transfer from Chattanooga. Call 'em Mr. Inside and Mr. Outside, if you must, but in a lot of ways, that's what modern basketball has come to be.
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1 week ago |
timeswv.com | Bob Hertzel
MORGANTOWN — Winning baseball. You want to know why West Virginia's team is at 30-4, owning the best winning percentage in the country? kAm%96 2?DH6C :D 3@E9 D:>A=6 2?5 4@>A=6I]k^Am kAmxE :D?VE 3642FD6 E96J 2C6 >2F=:?8 A6@A=6 82>6 27E6C 82>6] xE :D?VE 3642FD6 E96:C A:E49:?8 :D @G6CH96=>:?8 @AA@?6?ED[ 2=E9@F89 :E :D] xE :D?VE 3642FD6 pC>2?: vFK>2? :D >2<:?8 :>A@DD:3=6 A=2JD :? C:89E 7:6=5 2?5 $<J=2C z:?8 :D CF??:?8 6G6CJE9:?8 5@H? :? 46?E6C]k^AmkAmxE :D?VE 3642FD6 {@82?
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1 week ago |
wvnews.com | Bob Hertzel
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (WV News) — Winning baseball. You want to know why West Virginia's team is at 30-4, owning the best winning percentage in the country? The answer is both simple and complex. It isn't because they are mauling people game after game. It isn't because their pitching is overwhelming opponents, although it is. It isn't because Armani Guzman is making impossible plays in right field and Skylar King is running everything down in center.
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In 1987, the baseball renaissance in Pittsburgh began with a celebration after a record crowd in Three Rivers saw he Pirates pull one out on a Sid Bream game winner. I was glad to be there to write about it for you.
On this date in 1987, Sid Bream delivered a two-out double that broke a 3-3 tie in the 9th inning to lift the @Pirates to a 4-3 win over the Cardinals in front of 52,119 fans at the Home Opener. Jim Morrison, who went 4-for-4, walked ahead of Bream and scored the winning run. https://t.co/4d4nfub2hE
Ever the open door to dreams, former WVU forward Pat Suemnick, who hoped he find fame and happiness at Oklahoma State, is back in the portal looking for a new basketball home.
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Armani Guzman fielding gem part of an ESPN Top 10 plays helping leading to a realization that baseball defense is more important than it gets credit for. https://t.co/F2ebxactJr
