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West Virginia-Pitt: Another Year, Another Backyard Brawl

Whenever I think of the Backyard Brawl, my mind is immediately flooded with memories and emotions. In fact, it was the weekend of the Pitt game when I spoke to my dear mother for the last time...

Written by RG Yoho about 3 days ago 266 reads 0 comments
West Virginia-Cincinnati: Lights Out For The Bearcats

My son is attending college at a northern Ohio pharmacy school. In West Virginia’s last two visits to Cincinnati, I would pick up my son and the two of us would go the football game between the Mountaineers and the Bearcats...

Written by RG Yoho about 17 days ago 422 reads 0 comments
West Virginia Shows Its Heart for UConn's Jasper Howard

Despite the fact that West Virginia often gets some bad press for its fans occasionally torching a couch now and then; however, there has never been a day in my life when I wasn’t proud to be a Mountaineer fan...

Written by RG Yoho about about 1 month ago 407 reads 3 comments
WVU Football: Almost Heaven; But Big East Officiating, A Little South Of There

This past weekend, West Virginia and Marshall squared off in the Friends of Coal Bowl. The game pretty much turned out as I expected. The Mountaineers should have won by three touchdowns...

Written by RG Yoho about about 1 month ago 397 reads 4 comments
West Virginia-Marshall: It All Comes Down to Third Down

Last season, West Virginia lost two games early and often struggled on offense throughout the season because they were having some real difficulties converting on third down and short yardage situations...

Written by RG Yoho about about 1 month ago 253 reads 2 comments
West Virginia-Marshall: The Friends Of Coal Bowl Lacks Luster

All right, sports fans, this week will be the fourth installment of the “Friends of Coal Bowl,” a football game, pitting the West Virginia Mountaineers against the Marshall Thundering Herd...

Written by RG Yoho about about 1 month ago 365 reads 0 comments
West Virginia-Syracuse: Squeezing the Orange by Not Squandering the Ball

This week’s West Virginia game against Syracuse may prove to be an interesting contest to watch. One of the keys to this game will obviously be West Virginia’s ability to control the football...

Written by RG Yoho about about 1 month ago 373 reads 0 comments
West Virginia-Colorado: Bad Night for the Buffs

This Thursday night, West Virginia takes on the Colorado Buffaloes in a nationally-televised game on ESPN. I’m thinking it’s a bad week to be a Buffalo! In the first century of our nation’s history, the Indians worshipped the buffalo

Written by RG Yoho about 2 months ago 874 reads 17 comments
West Virginia's Julian Miller May Be The Key To The Big East Title

The past few years, the Mountaineers have suffered from an inability to get off the field in crucial third-down situations. Unfortunately, many of these third-down conversions have been the result of completed passes...

Written by RG Yoho about 2 months ago 232 reads 2 comments
Jarrett Brown's Arm Harms West Virginia

“Do no harm.” Many people mistakenly believe those words are lifted directly from the Hippocratic Oath, an oath taken by many doctors when they enter into medical practice...

Written by RG Yoho about 2 months ago 759 reads 9 comments
Speed Kills Auburn, Thrills West Virginia

You have all heard the saying, “Speed kills!” Well, in the case of John Belushi, Chris Farley, and Princess Diana, truer words were certainly never spoken...

Written by RG Yoho about 2 months ago 428 reads 5 comments
West Virginia's Jarrett Brown Continues a Colorful History

When you look up the words character and loyalty in the dictionary, you should read the words, “See Jarrett Brown...

Written by RG Yoho about 2 months ago 179 reads 4 comments
Why West Virginia Must Scuttle the Pirates!

Although their traditional rivalry football game with Maryland is currently put on hold, the Terrapins have been widely regarded as a barometer of West Virginia’s prospects for the season...

Written by RG Yoho about 3 months ago 500 reads 6 comments
The Strange Case of West Virginia's Tevita Finau

For the past couple of years, West Virginia Mountaineer fans have been expectantly awaiting the arrival of Tevita Finau...

Written by RG Yoho about 3 months ago 1,438 reads 0 comments
West Virginia Is Finally Stew's Crew!

Following his outstanding victory over Oklahoma in the Fiesta Bowl, West Virginia assistant coach Bill Stewart was awarded the Mountaineer head coaching position...

Written by RG Yoho about 3 months ago 145 reads 0 comments
Does Life Really Begin at Forty?

No doubt you have all heard the saying, “Life begins at forty.” Perhaps, like me, you have often wondered what bit of insanity inspired that statement...

Written by RG Yoho about 6 months ago 39 reads 0 comments
USC: The Best Athletes that Money can Buy

It has just been revealed that USC men’s basketball coach Tim Floyd made a direct cash payment to the man who was responsible for bringing O.J. Mayo into the program...

Written by RG Yoho about 6 months ago 561 reads 24 comments
Bring Owen to Schmittsburgh!

Going back to the mid-'70s, the Pittsburgh Steelers have always had a bruising and powerful running game, often providing the initial blocks for a much faster tailback...

Written by RG Yoho about 6 months ago 794 reads 5 comments
Pitt, Morgantown, Mountaineers, and Mom

This year, the lowly Pitt Panthers will make another return visit to Morgantown. Although it may sound strange at first, whenever I think of a night game in Morgantown with the Pitt Panthers, ...

Written by RG Yoho about 6 months ago 55 reads 4 comments
The Fleeting Talent and Glory of Brett Favre

At the end of his weekly hosting of Sunday’s highest rated political talk show, the late host Tim Russert used to say: “If it’s Sunday, it’s Meet the Press...

Written by RG Yoho about 6 months ago 170 reads 0 comments
Major Harris-- How I Landed This "Major" Book Deal

Early in 2007, I first came up with the idea of writing this book on former Mountaineer football great, Major Harris...

Written by RG Yoho about 7 months ago 348 reads 4 comments
Hard Times and Hard Choices

One of our Bleacher Report readers recently asked me why I haven’t written anything lately. The following column is the explanation for why sports has recently taken a backseat to the rest ...

Written by RG Yoho about 8 months ago 32 reads 0 comments
Puttting the Best Face on Bleacher Report

If you have ever been on a sports message board, then you know the rudeness and venom that are routinely spouted off by some of the participants...

Written by RG Yoho about about 1 year ago 157 reads 10 comments
Bengals-Eagles: The NFL Ties One On

When the game between the Cincinnati Bengals and the Philadelphia Eagles ended in a 13-13 tie, it once again highlighted one of the reasons why the National Football League will never match the collegiate game for excitement...

Written by RG Yoho about about 1 year ago 128 reads 5 comments
Football and Family—The Two Are Inseparable!

A couple of years ago, I made the statement to my wife that my priorities in this life were faith, family, and football—in that order. She immediately questioned my order on a couple of them...

Written by RG Yoho about about 1 year ago 158 reads 3 comments

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RG Yoho Article Archive

West Virginia-Pitt: Another Year, Another Backyard Brawl

West Virginia-Cincinnati: Lights Out For The Bearcats

West Virginia Shows Its Heart for UConn's Jasper Howard

WVU Football: Almost Heaven; But Big East Officiating, A Little South Of There

West Virginia-Marshall: It All Comes Down to Third Down

West Virginia-Marshall: The Friends Of Coal Bowl Lacks Luster

West Virginia-Syracuse: Squeezing the Orange by Not Squandering the Ball

West Virginia-Colorado: Bad Night for the Buffs

West Virginia's Julian Miller May Be The Key To The Big East Title

Jarrett Brown's Arm Harms West Virginia

Speed Kills Auburn, Thrills West Virginia

West Virginia's Jarrett Brown Continues a Colorful History

Why West Virginia Must Scuttle the Pirates!

The Strange Case of West Virginia's Tevita Finau

West Virginia Is Finally Stew's Crew!

Does Life Really Begin at Forty?

USC: The Best Athletes that Money can Buy

Bring Owen to Schmittsburgh!

Pitt, Morgantown, Mountaineers, and Mom

The Fleeting Talent and Glory of Brett Favre

Major Harris-- How I Landed This "Major" Book Deal

Hard Times and Hard Choices

Puttting the Best Face on Bleacher Report

Bengals-Eagles: The NFL Ties One On

Football and Family—The Two Are Inseparable!

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