Former Marshall football player Charles Tynes recanted statements he made in a sworn affidavit which implicated former Thundering Herd coach Bob Pruett in NCAA violations concerning improper employment benefits.
HUNTINGTON - With one swing of the leg, Kase Whitehead showed his coaches that Marshall just might be all right in the punting department this year.
HUNTINGTON - Mark Snyder's move toward a gentler, if not always kinder, football camp has claimed one of his offbeat traditions, the special-teams scrimmage.
DAVID RIDPATH filed a defamation lawsuit against many.
NCAA violations that saddled Marshall with scholarship reductions from which the program is just now recovering also had a detrimental effect on the career aspirations of Bob Pruett, the Thundering Herd's all-time winningest coach.
HUNTINGTON - Bob Pruett, Marshall's winningest football coach of all time, had distinct knowledge of a "jobs for props" program with booster Marshall Reynolds, as well as an instance of academic fraud, according to affidavits filed in connection with a former compliance director's ongoing lawsuit.
SO DID Brian Anderson set himself up to challenge Mark Cann for the Marshall starting quarterback job again, or will Cann be named the starter this week? Or maybe even today?
HUNTINGTON - Marshall's scrimmage Saturday was planned, to the degree possible, to be a proving ground for some of its youngest players.
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Sunday, August 17, 2008
HUNTINGTON - Disrespected by preseason predictors and dominated by their defensive teammates at times this month, players on Marshall's offense had something to prove Saturday in the team's first game-type exhibition.
Saturday, August 16, 2008
HUNTINGTON - Where Marshall's offense has taken a first-team rep this month, Mark Cann has been behind center.
Friday, August 15, 2008
HUNTINGTON - 2007 wasn't a total washout for Marshall receiver Tavaris Thompson.
Thursday, August 14, 2008
HUNTINGTON - In Marshall's ninth game of its long, strange 2007 season, Maurice Kitchens found himself in a strange place, all the way around.
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
HUNTINGTON - Marshall coach Mark Snyder sat at a lunch table across from defensive end Albert McClellan, the man Thundering Herd fans desperately hope has fully recovered from a knee injury.
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. - Call it the Old Albert, Phat Albert or whatever. This much was clear in the morning practice: Albert McClellan, the 2006 variety, was back at Marshall's practice.
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
HUNTINGTON - Let's review the signs of optimism in the Marshall camp.
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
HUNTINGTON - Ashton Hall was considered one of the prime catches in Marshall's recruiting class of 2006, perhaps the most valuable of the bunch.
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
HUNTINGTON - In coach Mark Snyder's fourth season at Marshall, this may be the one where the fewest true freshmen play.
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
DAVIE, Fla. - Chad Pennington worked overtime in his first practice with the Miami Dolphins.
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