The Times West Virginian Bob Herzel

HERTZEL COLUMN: Patrone finally gets his due

2012-05-27T05:01:00-04:00

Lee Patrone says he remembers it vividly, even though more than 50 years have passed, and while it was the greatest accomplishment in his life it has nothing to do with the West Virginia University basketball career that has lifted him into the Class of 2012 that will be inducted into the Mountaineer Sports Hall of Fame in September.

HERTZEL COLUMN: No doubt WVU made out well

2012-05-26T05:00:00-04:00

There was a cold, ill wind blowing in from the north on Friday.
It was the kind of wind that blows whenever a Pitt man opens his mouth, as the Pittsburgh athletic director Steve Pederson did.

Tears and memories: VIDEO

2012-05-25T05:04:00-04:00

It was mid-Thursday afternoon at the Morgantown Event Center and the crowd stood mostly silently in line that wound out of the Events Hall and into the hallway toward the staircase.
A young lady was there holding a singular golden rose
“I wish,” Rebecca Durst said, “it could be gold and blue.”

HERTZEL COLUMN: Stew fondly remembered by players

2012-05-25T05:03:00-04:00

The tributes have poured in all week for Bill Stewart, the former West Virginia University football coach whose sudden and unexpected death from a heart attack at age 59 on Monday stunned the state, but it wasn’t the administrators or executives or politicians who really knew him.

HERTZEL COLUMN: White right there with Hall of Famers

2012-05-24T05:01:00-04:00

Back on New Year’s Eve, 2008, shortly after West Virginia University had edged North Carolina, 31-30, to win the Meineke Car Care Bowl, an attempt was made to put Mountaineer quarterback Patrick White into his proper historical perspective.

HERTZEL COLUMN: Pat Beilein follows in father’s path

2012-05-23T05:00:00-04:00

In a day filled with the sorrow of former West Virginia University football coach Bill Stewart’s sudden and unexpected death, there was a ray of sunshine that managed to slip through, a happening that shows us all that even in death there is life and as one son grieves, as does Stewart’s son, Blaine, somewhere else a father basks in pride over his son.

HERTZEL COLUMN - Stewart’s gift was giving

2012-05-22T05:00:00-04:00

It was the kind of cosmic happening that defies description. We all come across them from time to time, leaving us in a state of disbelief.

HERTZEL COLUMN: This ‘Maniac’ makes music with Kilicli

2012-05-20T05:01:00-04:00

Mike Martin wasn’t long removed from his New York roots, a somewhat rare import in these parts compared to the migration of New Jerseyites who matriculate at West Virginia University.

Van Zant fired as WVU baseball coach

2012-05-20T05:00:00-04:00

West Virginia athletic director Oliver Luck believes with a new coach and a new stadium the Mountaineers can compete with the likes of Texas and Oklahoma for the Big 12 baseball championship but understands it will not come easily or quickly.

SEC, Big 12 team up for bowl

2012-05-19T05:01:00-04:00

Even before the full impact of West Virginia University’s 2014 season-opening meeting with Alabama in Atlanta has been grasped, the opportunity presented itself for the two to meet again later in that season or future ones in a bowl agreement between the Big 12 and SEC that is much like the Rose Bowl agreement between the Big Ten and the Pac-12.