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HERTZEL COLUMN - God bless America

2012-05-28T05:00:00-04:00

Perhaps the most welcome innovation in major league baseball in recent memory has been the introduction of a seventh-inning rendition of “God Bless America” while honoring an active member of the U.S. military.

Orlando, Pastilong highlight ’12 WVU Hall of Famers

2012-05-27T05:03:00-04:00

Retired athletic director Ed Pastilong and safety Bo Orlando of the 1988 football team that played Notre Dame for the national championship lead a class of seven into the West Virginia University Sports Hall of Fame.

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.

Friends, fans mourn loss of Stewart

2012-05-25T05:02:00-04:00

Condolences streamed in from as far as Texas and Massachusetts as fans and friends gathered Thursday in Morgantown to pay tribute to former West Virginia University football coach Bill Stewart.
Stewart died Monday of an apparent heart attack at age 59 while on a golf outing with former athletic director Ed Pastilong.

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.

Bill Stewart services scheduled

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

Visitation and funeral arrangements for former West Virginia University football coach Bill Stewart have been announced.
There will be public viewing from 2-9 p.m. Thursday, at the Morgantown Event Center, 2 Waterfront Place.