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A weekend off

I’d love to be live blogging tomorrow’s college football action, but alas, I will be away from computers and the internet and other new-fangled technology until Sunday. I’ll be in Canaan Valley with the DA staff for our yearly retreat.

Enjoy the games, and we’ll be back stronger than ever next week.

Filed under The Blog : Comments (2) : Sep 12th, 2008

Someone out there likes me…

This blog has sort of been a running joke for some at the DA. I don’t know whether I should be offended or pleased, but opinion editor Dave Ryan saw fit to make an “ad” for the blog that is never going to run anywhere. Except here. Call it our first exclusive.

I’m posting this just to justify his two minutes of hard work. You think we could get some readers from it?

P.S. Don’t blame me for today’s headline claiming a WVU loss to the “Greenville Pirates”. I had nothing to do with it. I swear.


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Filed under The Blog : Comments (0) : Sep 8th, 2008

LIVE BLOG: WVU-East Carolina

7:25 p.m. – Mercifully, it has ended. 24-3 in favor of the Pirates.

It will be interesting, to say the least, to hear what Stewart and the players have to say to explain this one away. West Virginia didn’t even look like it belonged on the same field as East Carolina today.

I’ll have post-game commentary tomorrow as we try to make sense of this fiasco and put a brave face towards the rest of the season, which admittedly has a different feel to it entirely now.

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Filed under College Football, The Blog : Comments (1) : Sep 6th, 2008

LIVE BLOG: September 6 NCAA Football

1:28 p.m. — As the noon kickoffs reach halftime, there are surely some raised eyebrows among college football fans around the country.

Ohio U. takes that 7-6 lead over Ohio State into the locker room in Columbus.

Wisconsin scores a late touchdown to take a 17-14 lead over Marshall into the locker room. It’s been 17 unanswered for the Badgers to end the half after the Herd jumped out to a two touchdown lead.

Auburn is only up 7-0 on Southern Miss around halfway through the second quarter.

It appears a lot of these “big name” teams have come into their games today a little listless. Tough tasks remain for any team hoping to pull a big early-season upset, however. 

An update on the defending Big East co-champions: Mighty Temple has a 6-0 lead on Connecticut at the half.

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Filed under College Football, The Blog : Comments (0) : Sep 6th, 2008

A Day of Rest

After the fun and excitement of yesterday, this writer is taking a break for today from any posts of great substance. Check back tomorrow though for content to wrap up the WVU-Villanova game and begin the process of looking towards East Carolina.

For those reading, however, I have to ask a question that has compelled me since yesterday. Which of this weekend’s losses by a Mountaineer rival was the most personally satisfying to you, and why?

Leave your answers in the comments section of this post, and I’ll post some of the best responses and give my own selection in a post tomorrow.

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Filed under College Football, The Blog : Comments (3) : Aug 31st, 2008

LIVE BLOG: WVU-Villanova

7:54 p.m. — Just got out of the interviews with WVU’s coaches and players, and there were a good bit of interesting insights. My fellow colleagues at the DA and I are about to leave the stadium. An update is forthcoming after I arrive back at my house. I’ll have my final thoughts, some compelling statistics, and quotes from the locker room.

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Filed under College Football, The Blog : Comments (10) : Aug 30th, 2008

LAUNCH!

With this tiny, insignificant post, we are officially launched! Welcome to everyone reading.

It is also officially game day in college football (and, more significantly to me, in Morgantown). The first post about Villanova is coming in a matter of minutes.

Filed under The Blog : Comments (2) : Aug 29th, 2008

It’s Almost Midnight, Cinderella

It’s almost that time, ladies and gentlemen. As of this post, we’re just over 12 hours away from two momentous occasions. First, and most importantly, it will be game day in Morgantown — a beautiful thing.

But don’t forget the second big happening when the clock hits midnight: this blog’s official launch. We’ve had a pretty healthy “pre-launch” with a lot of viewers. Hopefully you all enjoy the site and are adding us to your bookmarks. We think we’ve got everything almost everything figured out on the technical side of things, so now we can focus solely on giving you what I believe will be a truly great sports blog.

So with the launch, Saturday is a big day for us too. Don’t forget, we’ll be live blogging from the WVU-Villanova game and we’ll be rolling out content to help get you ready for it starting at midnight. Keep checking back all day tomorrow to read what we’ve got.

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Filed under The Blog : Comments (0) : Aug 29th, 2008

Thanks for Visiting!

I know a lot of new traffic has been generated by the creation of a Facebook group to promote the blog, as well as a post on a popular WVU fan message board. To those visiting after finding the blog through either of those channels, welcome and thanks for coming!

Click the link below for details about the official launch and some new content that’s coming later today.

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Filed under The Blog : Comments (3) : Aug 28th, 2008

Official Launch: 8.30.08

It only seems appropriate to have this blog formally kick off on the same day the college football season truly does the same.

Here at 20/20 Sports, we’re in what we’re calling the “pre-launch” for now. The final kinks technical details of the site are being worked out before we officially go live this Saturday, August 30. We’ll have some content at midnight on Saturday to help get you prepared for the first WVU football game of the season, which comes that afternoon against Villanova.

If you’ll be watching the game at home, keep your computer close by and check the blog every few minutes while you watch. We’ll be running a “live blog” of the game from the press box at Milan Puskar Stadium. We’ll have comments on the action as it happens.

If you’re going to be at the game in person, we’ll still have content waiting on you when you get home. After the game, we’ll post my final thoughts on the outcome, as well as some quotes from players and coaches.

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Filed under College Football, The Blog : Comments (0) : Aug 25th, 2008

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