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Week Five Proposition Bets for the College Football Junkie

Prop Bets for the College Football Junkie is a weekly post that cares not for your silly point spreads. If you have the money and the gumption, we'll lay down a weekly gauntlet of propositions that'll take you from the penthouse to the outhouse faster than you can guess the number of times Lee Corso will say "not so fast...

Rich Rodriguez's Lawyer Doesn't Know Much About Sports

Now that the depositions are underway in the WVU vs. Rich Rodriguez case, we are finally starting to learn a few things that weren't apparent. For instance, we didn't know how little Rodriguez's attorney, Marv Robon knows about sports. More to the point, how little he knows about who is coaching where. At one point...

West Virginia Just Can't Let Go

Just when you thought it was safe to say the word football in West Virginia without attaching Rich Rodriguez to the conversation, "Shred Rich Rodriguez Night" is announced. The Wheeling Nailers, the AA minor league hockey team in Wheeling, WV, will offer fans discounts for bringing a picture or newspaper article of the...

Why is Joe Manchin so Involved in the West Virginia Coaching Search

Happy New Year! As West Virginia's coaching search crawls on, I just have to ask why is the governor of this state so involved in the coaching search? It's a somewhat rhetorical question, because he is a politician and if you want some face time in the West Virginia press right now all you have to do is talk about the...

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Team Obama Addresses Joe Manchin Factor

A top adviser to President Barack Obama's campaign says he understands the political calculation behind West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin's announcement that he's not sure right now whether he'll vote for his party leader in November.

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05/23/12 Senators approve Manchin amendment to reclassify... Source: The Charleston Gazette - Charleston WV U.S. senators on Wednesday evening unanimously passed an amendment to a Food and Drug Administration reauthorization bill that would reclassify all hydrocodone substances and make punishment for their trafficking more severe.
05/23/12 Manchin Representative Visit Source: Wetzel Chronicle - Martinsville WV As part of "Commonsense Connections" Week, representatives for U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) will be meet with constituents, hear their commonsense priorities and concerns, and gather their feedback on May 23, 11:30 a.m. â 12:30 p.m., at the Wetzel County Senior Center, 145 Paducah Drive, New Martinsville.
05/21/12 Charlotte Pritt: A few to blame for Judds 41 percent Source: The Charleston Gazette - Charleston WV Misrepresentation of my perspective in Phil Kabler's column, "How did Judd get 41 percent of vote?" must be addressed because it implies that I blame Republicans, and I don't.
05/19/12 Will Dems make the smart move? Source: The Inter-Mountain - Elkins WV Somewhere in my collection of political artifacts is a reminder of what happens when parties divide among themselves.
05/18/12 U.S. senators to keep fighting for state postal jobs Source: The Charleston Gazette - Charleston WV U.S. Sens. Joe Manchin and Jay Rockefeller have asked the U.S. Postal Service to give fair treatment to West Virginia as it moves ahead with closing dozens of mail processing centers nationwide.