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BARBOURSVILLE, W.Va. -- When Tab Ramos retired in 2002, the thought of becoming a coach never crossed his mind. Now, seven years later, he's standing on the touchline coaching the U-14 boys team from New Jersey in the U.S. Youth Soccer Region 1 Championships.
THE TREND for colleges around West Virginia has been to recruit fewer in-state athletes. Fairmont State obviously hasn't seen those figures.
BOB MARCUM, who departed his "retirement job" as athletic director of Marshall University on Tuesday, was generally popular among his employees and decidedly unpopular among Thundering Herd fans.
RADICAL, EARTH-SHAKING change is coming to Conference USA.
Charleston's C.K. Shah is a man whose firm, CMD Plus, Inc., designs and builds homes. On Monday, though, he will be in a house of cards. The ultimate house of cards.
CALL IT the long arms race.
IT WAS a safe bet, of course, that Tuesday's South Atlantic League All-Star Game at Appalachian Power Park would attract a respectable crowd.
LAS VEGAS - BY DAY, I talk poker; by night, I play poker. This came as quite a surprise to Toni - a.k.a. She Is The One (And Then Some) - who assumed I just impersonated a poker player on TV to allow us to eat at Outback Steakhouse once a month.
RIVALS.COM and Scout.com provide Sports Nation with an invaluable service: They keep us up-to-date, as we should be, on the top high school prospects being recruited for student-athlete status at our institutions of higher learning.
The shadow that Bob Huggins casts on his former employers at the University of Cincinnati continues to be a rather large one. Cincinnati and Fox Sports Ohio announced its Bearcats-related programming schedule for the upcoming college football and basketball season last week.
Ernie Salvatore may have been the most gifted sports writer in the state of West Virginia. He also may have been the most important!
SEVERAL WEEKS ago, they tore down the old DuPont Junior High School building near Belle.
The West Virginia Chaos in the under-12 eight-vs.-eight division leads the pack of Mountain State teams at the U.S. Youth Soccer Region 1 tournament, with a win on the opening day and a draw Saturday.
The River Valley Soccer Club was given a 90-minute lesson Saturday in what it takes to succeed at the regional level.
BARBOURSVILLE, W.Va. -- Following Saturday's soccer games in Barboursville, families from 13 states across the region scoured the Tri-State area looking for the perfect place to sit back, relax and enjoy their Fourth of July holiday.
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