The tearing down of the Veterans Memorial Fieldhouse has been postponed because of the reviewing of the project by the State Historic Preservation Office. The State Historic Preservation is looking to restore the Fieldhouse to keep the historic significance in West Virginia.
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Brian Morgan is an integrated science and technology professor by day, but when he’s not teaching students the ways of computer programming, he often finds himself in tight spaces — surrounded by people and TV monitors. “I am a freelancer who gets recruited to work college football, basketball and baseball games,” Morgan said.
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With just two practices remaining in the five-week spring season for the Marshall football team, one unit has stood out above the rest: The wide receivers. On any given day, Marshall’s receiving corps is deep in numbers, and when the entire group is healthy is into double figure.
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In today’s college sports world, it’s not the norm for a coach to stay at one school for more than decade, but Marshall’s Joe Feaganes is not the norm. The Marshall graduate has been coaching Marshall’s golf team for 40 years, and after this weekend’s Conference USA Tournament in Texarkana, Ark.
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As awareness of concussions in sports rises, more time and effort is being spent on treating them. Injuries happen in all sports, but concussions receive particular attention because they involve damage to the brain. “It’s basically a mild trauma to the brain that creates transient confusion,” said Tom Belmaggio, Marshall’s head athletic trainer.
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It just wouldn’t be baseball season without a few heartbreak losses and nail-biting finishes thrown in the mix. On the plus side, the Marshall University Thundering Herd was able to snap their five game losing streak. On the downside, they lost two games this past weekend by just one run.
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The Marshall University Women’s Tennis team will play the University of Texas El Paso in the first round of the Conference USA Tournament Thursday in Memphis, Tenn. The Thundering Herd earned the fifth seed in the conference and finished with a 12-9 record including going 7-0 at home.
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At the 10th of 15 spring practices, the Marshall University football team looked more like the walking wounded than it did a football team. The Herd had 25 players limited or completely inactive at practice with 17 players dawning blue jerseys and six dawning red, not counting the quarterbacks.
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Kristyn and Caitlyn Morrone were sophomores in high school when a friend of the family recruited them for their high school golf team — and from that moment on they were in love. The Morrones, junior exercise physiology majors originally from Fairmont, W.
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Ask anyone who is a fan of the game, and they’ll tell you baseball is full of curses. For Marshall University’s Thundering Herd baseball team, a one-inning curse took place this past weekend. The Herd took on No. 9 Rice University this past weekend, and despite the results, played with incredible skill.
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In their third performance at nationals, Marshall University Cheerleading put their best routine on the mat and finished third. The Marshall cheerleading squad placed third out of 17 teams at the National Cheerleaders Association Collegiate Cheer Championship in Daytona Beach, Fla.
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Rice stands for something more than an acronym for rest, ice, compression and elevation this weekend. The Marshall University Baseball team will take on nationally ranked conference rival Rice University today, tomorrow, and Sunday at Appalachian Power Park.
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While the regular season is months away, the Marshall University men’s soccer team is working in full force in its spring season to prepare for the fall. The Thundering Herd is coming off an 8-7-1 record in 2011 with high aspirations for the 2012 campaign.
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One of the defensive players who has been making a splash during the spring practice sessions is sophomore linebacker Jermaine Holmes. The Valdosta, Ga. native has been mixing in and out with the first team, and Holliday and Rippon are happy with the steps he’s taken since the end of the season.
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The Thundering Herd men’s golf team got out of the gate slow in its spring season, but with just two tournaments remaining, the team has started to find its groove on the golf course. The 2012 season started off rough for the Herd, as it finished last in its first two outings of the season.
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While the regular season is not until fall, the Marshall University’s women’s soccer team has hit full stride in its spring season. The Herd is coming off a 4-13-3 record in the fall of 2011, and is looking to build momentum in the short spring season to catapult them into the fall.
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The Marshall University Baseball team looks to rebound from an off weekend in Charleston. Marshall was swept by conference rival Memphis with scores of 9-4, 7-0, and 11-2. “We need to get back to fundamentals of playing the game the right way,” Marshall Head Coach Jeff Waggoner said.
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The Marshall University Cheerleading team is taking part in the 32nd National Cheerleaders Association and National Dance Alliance Championships. The competition will take place April 11-15, in Daytona Beach, Fla. Every team will get to perform twice with two chances to make the finals.
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At 6’5” tall and more than 240 pounds, Vinny Curry is a man of great stature. However, on Saturday, it was the love and support of his fans that made him stand tall. Curry, a Marshall alumni and prospect for the 2012 NFL Draft, signed autographs from 2 p.
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One of the most scrutinized areas of the Marshall University football team during last spring — and this season — was the offensive line. This year’s edition of the kelly green and white has seen some changes take place in the trenches. On February 8, head coach Doc Holliday announced the addition of Geep Wade to the Herd coaching staff.
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Nothing like traveling an hour or more for a home game, right? The Marshall University baseball team will host its first “home” conference tournament of the year this weekend at Appalachian Power Park in Charleston. The Herd will take on the Memphis Tigers, who are 12-17 and 2-4 in conference play.
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Marshall University men’s Rugby team closes in on the end of tournament play with a sharp young roster. The Marshall men’s Rugby team has a 25-man roster and said they expect to have more men join the team in the following season. Going into next season, the team expects to have more recruits with larger numbers to add onto their roster.
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Since first stepping onto Marshall’s campus in the fall, quarterback Rakeem Cato has been the center of attention. The sophomore won the preseason position battle and became the first true freshman starter at quarterback since Marshall great Chad Pennington, but the glory would not last as Cato was stripped of his duties when A.
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The Marshall University baseball team faced Liberty University this past weekend and finally snapped its five-game losing streak. In game one, the Herd fell behind 4-0. Gray Stafford doubled in two runs, and Alfredo Brito also hit a double, bringing in another run and putting the Herd within one.
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nis improved to 11-7 on the season after a win vs. Old Dominion University over the weekend. The Herd was led by strong singles play by junior Kara Kucin and sophomore Maria Voscekova. Kucin, broadcast journalism major from Belleair, Fla., is 11-6 on the season and has won eight straight matches.
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To say the Marshall University football team is lacking seniors would perhaps be a gross understatement. The Herd boasts just four seniors on the spring roster practices beginning this week. But for head coach Doc Holliday, young does not necessarily mean green.
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The Marshall University baseball team will be traveling to Beckley this weekend for a “home” series against the Liberty University Flames. This matchup will be the final non-conference weekend for the Herd. The Herd enters the series on a three-game losing streak –– having lost six of the last nine games.
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After getting swept for the first time this season, the Marshall softball team returns to the diamond as it hits the road for a three-game series at the University of Texas-El Paso. The Herd is coming off a stretch of nine games in just seven days. The Herd won five of the first six before losing the final three to the University of Alabama-Birmingham.
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Marshall University Softball coach Shonda Stanton is only three wins shy of 400 for her career. Stanton is in her 13th season as head coach for the Thundering Herd. Her 397 wins are the most for any coach in Marshall softball history. Stanton played softball collegiately at UNC Greensboro.
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Spring has sprung. How do I know that, you ask? No, it’s not the glorious warm weather we’ve been enjoying. Hell, that’s been here all winter. It’s not the sinus allergies leaving me sounding like Kermit holding his nose, either. Nor is it the nagging feeling of post-spring break sluggishness.
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For the girls of the Marshall softball team spring, break was anything but a break. The Thundering Herd played nine games in a seven -day stretch including a six game road trip to start off the spring break week. The Herd started its road swing in Memphis, Tenn.
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Korn ‘Gone’ Simsiriwong is a freshman biological sciences major from Narathiwat, Thailand. Important factors about Simsiriwong are her extracurricular activity and where she comes from. Simsiriwong is a member of Marshall University’s women’s golf team.
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Baseball Where: Beckley, W.Va. Who: St. Bonaventure What: The Thundering Herd will play its first games in the state of West Virginia on the season — a weekend series against the Bonnies. The games will be played at Linda K. Epling Stadium. Marshall currently sits at 7-9 on the season.
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Strong determination and motivation to do what she loves drives Rachel Thompson, sophomore women’s golfer, to overcome any challenge she may face while on the green or in the classroom. “I played every sport when I was young, and golf was the sport that challenged me the most,” Thompson said.
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Marshall University junior softball player Andi Williamson is a major reason why the Thundering Herd is leading Conference USA with a 12-10 record. Williamson, originally from Harts, W.Va. attended the University of Tennessee to start her collegiate softball career.
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There was an intense moment with just under 12 minutes left in the first half of the Marshall University basketball team’s opening round NIT game against Middle Tennessee State. The Blue Raiders looked as though they were the other university in the center of the state.
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The Marshall University baseball team tried to take their weekend success into Morehead, Ky., on Tuesday, but came up short. The Thundering Herd rallied back from an eight-run deficit, but couldn’t find the final power to finish things off against the Morehead State Eagles Tuesday.
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Toughest region JC: South — Kentucky is the number 1 overall seed. You also have strong teams in Duke and Baylor. Even the 9 and 10 seeds UCONN and Xavier are teams that could make a run in the tournament. This bracket also has 3 “darkhorse” teams.. PW: East — solid JS: The West region scares me.
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The Marshall University baseball team added its own momentum to the excitement surrounding the athletic department this weekend. The Thundering Herd visited Boiling Springs, N. C. to sweep Gardner-Webb’s Runnin’ Bulldogs in a three-game set. In the first game, sophomore Aaron Blair achieved a Conference USA milestone for the Thundering Herd.
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Marshall University men’s basketball might have been snubbed from receiving its first trip to the NCAA Tournament in 25 years, but the Thundering Herd players are still excited to play in a large postseason national tournament. Head coach Tom Herrion and his troops will be making their first appearance in the National Invitational Tournament for the first time since 1988, when it lost 81-80 to Virginia Commonwealth University at home in the first round.
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Dear NCAA and NIT selection committees, Could you do Thundering Herd fans a favor? After the atrocities that happened during Selection Sunday, I think you owe us that. Explain to the thousands of Marshall fans watching eagerly Sunday why the Herd was so blatantly snubbed in two different directions.
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Hundreds of Kelly green shirts stood out in the sea of blue that was Saturday's C-USA championship. After Marshall defeated Southern Miss 74-56 on Friday, the allotment of tickets held for Herd fans sold out within hours. The eight-hour drive to the FedEx Forum did not stop many from supporting the men's basketball team.
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In its first ever Conference USA championship game, the Marshall University men's basketball team was dominated by tournament host Memphis. Clinching its seventh conference title in eight years, the Memphis Tigers knocked out the Herd 83-57 in front of its home crowd.
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In just his second year of eligibility, Marshall sophomore guard DeAndre Kane has become a star in Conference USA. On his way to making the All-Conference USA second team, Kane finished second in the league in scoring with 16.6 points per game and also averaged 5.
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Thursday afternoon turned into evening, as Marshall men's basketball and Tulsa (17-14) went to triple overtime inside FedExForum in Memphis, Tenn. The Thundering Herd (20-12) advanced to the semifinals of the 2012 Conference USA Tournament with the 105-100 win in three overtimes to face the Southern Miss Golden Eagles (25-7).
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The Marshall University swimming and diving coach resigned from his position March 1, amid reports that he was caught smoking marijuana on campus. Russell Hunt (LEFT) had been coach for a total of two complete seasons for the Thundering Herd. A Marshall University Police Department report states Hunt was caught smoking marijuana in Gullickson Hall on March 1 in the lower stairwell of the building.
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Marshall men's basketball's Conference USA Tournament hopes are still alive after a dominating second half performance in a 74-56 victory over Southern Methodist University Wednesday afternoon from Memphis, Tenn. It was a back-and-forth affair during the first 24 minutes of the game from the FedExForum, which saw two lead changes and four ties.
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After closing out the regular season with a win over Southern Miss, the Marshall men's basketball team now turns its attention to the Conference USA tournament. As the six seed in the tournament, the Thundering Herd will take on the 11th seeded Southern Methodist Mustangs in the first round of the tournament, a team the Herd defeated just weeks ago.
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A Cabell Midland High School athlete is making history by using his speed to become West Virginia's fastest distance runner on the high school level. Jacob Burcham, junior cross country and track and field competitor, is known for his national and worldwide attention.
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There are many things that make a person smile whether it's their friends, family or jobs. For senior marketing major Samantha Spurlock, softball is what makes her smile. Spurlock, an outfielder and Huntington native, dreamt of playing for the Marshall University softball team since she was a child, watching games with her dad.
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The Marshall University baseball team took cues from the strange winter weather this weekend. Both were sporadic and unpredictable. The Thundering Herd played a pair of two-game sets against the Eastern Michigan Eagles and the Wake Forest Demon Deacons, winning only one of the four contests.
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On senior night, it was a junior who led the way for the Marshall men's basketball team Saturday afternoon. Dennis Tinnon scored 22 points and snatched down nine rebounds — leading the Herd to a 79-75 victory over Southern Miss. Tinnon was clutch in the final stretch, making six free throws in the final moments to ice the game for Marshall.
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After three consecutive weekends on the road, the Marshall University softball team will play its home opener Friday on day one of the Marshall Invitational. The Herd is coming off a 1-4 showing at the Citrus Classic. Marshall picked up an 8-0 win over St.
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After losing its second consecutive game to East Carolina 69-68 in overtime, the Marshall University men's basketball team now turns its attention to its final regular season game. Marshall will look to avenge an earlier loss to Southern Miss and build momentum heading into the Conference USA tournament.
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When the Marshall men's basketball team takes the floor Saturday against Southern Miss, it will not be like every other game this season. The contest is the Herd's final game of the regular season and serves as senior day — honoring the teams three seniors.
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Sacha Byous-McConnell said she believes life is full of experiences. She took that motto to heart when she moved across the country and capitalized on the opportunity to visit China. Two years ago, Byous-McConnell, sophomore exercise science major from Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.
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Forty minutes were not enough for the Thundering Herd men's basketball team in a road contest against East Carolina University, but the Herd came up just short in a 69-68 defeat. Marshall and the Pirates ended regulation locked in a 63-63 tie. At the end of regulation, Marshall had a chance to hit a game winner with less than 10 seconds to play, but an air ball resulted in a turnover.
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The Marshall men's basketball team will hit the road for the final time this season when it travels to Greenville, N.C. to take on East Carolina. The Thundering Herd is coming off an 87-67 loss to Memphis and looks to get back on track against the Pirates on Wednesday night.
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Former Marshall University men's basketball player Tirrell Baines is currently living out his dream playing in the NBA Developmental League. Baines, originally from Laurens, S.C., attended the Patterson School in North Carolina before coming to Marshall in 2007.
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Led by experience, the Marshall University Thundering Herd softball team looks to get back to its winning ways. The Thundering Herd softball team is full of upperclassmen. There are 20 players in total on the team: Seven seniors, eight juniors, two sophomores and three freshmen.
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In his time at Marshall University, Vinny Curry was one of the most successful defensive lineman in Thundering Herd history, and he is now looking to make the jump into the NFL. Curry is one of the nation's elite collegiate football players who was invited to Indianapolis, Ind.
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Speed kills. The Marshall University softball team knows that. The Herd is looking to improve upon last year when the team led the NCAA in stolen bases per game. Last year, the Herd fielded a team that had four players ranked in the top 100 in the NCAA in stolen bases.
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After a 4-1 start on opening weekend, the Marshall University softball team traveled to Charleston, SC for its second weekend of action. The Herd finished the weekend at 2-2, but day one was a struggle for Marshall dropping both of Friday's games to Charleston Southern (3-2) and Kennesaw State (4-3).
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Hoping to get a win in their last home game, three Marshall University Women's Basketball players bid farewell to the fans. Sunday. Seniors Alaya Mitchell, Rashedah Henriques and Lateidra Elliott will play their last home games at the Cam Henderson Center.
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After a thrilling victory over the Houston Cougars Wednesday night, the Marshall University men's basketball team has now turned its focus to its next challenge, the Memphis Tigers. Marshall comes into the contest at 17-10 (8-5 C-USA) after picking up two wins the past week in much different styles.
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There was a moment early in the second half of Marshall's 66-58 victory over Houston. Perhaps it was a defining moment. The Thundering Herd seemed to be sleepwalking through the game, and the crowd of 6,023 was not doing anything to help. In fact, the fans might have been lost in dreamland as well.
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With only four games remaining in the regular season, the Marshall University men's basketball team looks to continue its climb in the conference standings. After picking up a win at Southern Methodist, the Thundering Herd returns home to take on another Texas team, the Houston Cougars.
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Starting full-time practices, Marshall University's men's soccer team prepares for its spring season. Seven matches have been set for The Thundering Herd's spring season beginning with the University of Dayton on March 3 in Dayton, Ohio. Seniors Daniel Withrow and Tom Jackson have set their sights on a NCAA Tournament and will be using this spring to prepare for the fall season and a conference win.
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Marshall University's lacrosse team is headed into a new season with its first game Saturday. The team plays 10 to 12 games every season, coming to a close at the end of April. Calvin Britton, junior computer forensics major from Wesley Chapel, Fla.
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Over the years, Marshall football fans have come to expect the Herd to feature a dominating defensive end. Players like Billy Lyon, Albert McClellan and most recently Vinny Curry have made names for themselves getting after the quarterback and dropping the ball carrier in the backfield.
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Hitting the road for the next to last time in the regular season, the Marshall men's basketball team heads to Dallas for a Saturday showdown with Southern Methodist University. The Thundering Herd is coming off one of its hottest shooting performances of the season in a victory over East Carolina University and looks to carry that momentum into Dallas.
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Former Marshall University Men's Basketball player, Jean Francois Bro Grebe, visited business classes Monday to speak about the relationship between personal image and style and success in the business world. Bro Grebe said personal image is everything in the business world.
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In its first real competition since May of last year the Marshall softball team shined in the first tournament of the season going 4-1 in the "Kickin' Chicken Classic." The Herd traveled to Conway, S.C. to play in its first tournament of the season and started the weekend 4-0 before losing its final game to tournament host Coastal Carolina 7-3.
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MWC and C-USA forming all-sport conference
The Mountain West Conference and Conference USA held a teleconference in October 2011 to announce that the conferences unanimously decided to consolidate their football member programs into one association conference. But that plan has since changed.
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On a day when the Marshall University men's basketball team would ordinarily be preparing for a Wednesday night game, the Herd was just getting practice started for the week. After playing at least two games a week for the past three months, the Thundering Herd finally has a week off, and it comes not a moment too soon.
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Legendary basketball player Harold Everett Greer, 82, better known as Hal Greer, has left a lasting impact at Marshall University and on the city of Huntington, W.Va. Greer attended Douglas junior and senior High School in Huntington. Greer attended high school during times of segregation, Douglas Junior and Senior High was built specifically for African-Americans in 1924.
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Despite the absence of the Thundering Herd's top scorer, sophomore guard DeAndre Kane, the men's basketball team was able to outmatch East Carolina University on Saturday by a final score of 78-68. Kane was inactive for the game following the death of his father Tuesday, but the rest of the Herd put together its best shooting performance of the season, shooting 54 percent from the field.
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n a weekend when Hal Greer was in town, Damier Pitts passed the NBA Hall of Famer on the Marshall University all-time scoring list. Pitts, senior management major from Charlotte, N.C., now ranks as eighteenth all-time leader in points at Marshall. Needing only 13 points to pass Greer, Pitts went 9-17 and scored 27 points Saturday, against East Carolina University in a game at the Cam Henderson Center.
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After finishing 2011 last in conference play, there were no surprises for Marshall head baseball coach Jeff Waggoner when Conference USA released its preseason rankings with the Herd at the bottom. In addition to finishing the season 20-31 (7-17 C-USA), the Herd also lost 10 players who were selected in the Major League Baseball Draft.
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The Veterans Memorial Field House on Fifth Avenue this Saturday, which has hosted events including Marshall basketball since 1950, will host the Marshall Basketball Alumni Game. The game will be the last event taking place at the Field House before it is torn down to build the new Marshall soccer complex.
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Coming off a 67-60 loss to conference rival UCF, the Marshall men's basketball team returns home, looking to add a game to the win column against East Carolina University. The Thundering Herd seeks to get just its second win in the last eight games Saturday night when the ECU Pirates come to the Cam Henderson Center.
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For players, the wait for opening day seems like an eternity. However, Marshall softball, the wait is all but over. The Thundering Herd will be heading south Friaday to kick off its 2012 campaign in the "Kickin' Chicken Classic" in Conway, S.C. hosted by Costal Carolina.
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The University of Central Florida was too much for the Marshall men's basketball team down the stretch, as the Knights outlasted Thundering Herd in the final minutes to grab a 67-60 win. Marshall trailed early in the game but rallied late in the first half to grab a four-point lead with 1:34 left in the half.
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Forget the boxing gloves, the bell and Michael Buffer. No, this game is nothing like a heavyweight boxing match. This game is something much more raw. It's the Hatfields vs. the McCoys. The Jets vs. the Sharks. Donald Trump vs. Rosie O'Donnell.
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Marshall men's basketball hits the road again Wednesday night when it travels to Orlando, Fla. to take on the University of Central Florida Knights. The Thundering Herd is looking to sweep the season series from the Knights after a 65-64 win in Huntington earlier this season on Jan.
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More than 100 Marshall University alumni will be in attendance for the last Marshall basketball event to be at the Veteran's Memorial Field House at 7 p.m. Friday. The Herd played its home basketball games in the Field House from 1950-1981 before moving to the Cam Henderson Center.
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The Marshall women's basketball team erased a 16-point first half deficit, but was unable to complete the comeback as the Herd fell 50-45 to the University of Alabama-Birmingham on Sunday. The Blazers dominated the first 16 minutes of the game, jumping out to a 24-8 lead before the Thundering Herd began to chip away.
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BY KAYLA MARCUM THE PARTHENON Marshall women's basketball brings home the victory. Marshall women's basketball broke their five-game losing streak at home Thursday against Rice, claiming the victory at 65-57. The team came out of the gate strong with a 13-point lead less than five minutes into the first half and sustained a strong point advantage throughout the game.
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Marshall University will honor female athletes Sunday. The Marshall Department of Intercollegiate Athletics will host the 15th annual Sweetheart Woman's Clinic. The clinic will be at the Marshall Recreation Center and is meant to honor the nine women's sports programs at Marshall, while also getting children from the community involved.
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Fax machines inside the athletic department were working overtime Wednesday as Letters of Intent came flooding in from all over the country for Doc Holliday's third recruiting class as head coach of the Thundering Herd. National Signing Day brought 15 new student-athletes into Herd Nation, and with 15 more already enrolled, Holliday's 2012 class stands at 30 strong.
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The Marshall University Student Government Association is bringing a Club Sports Council to campus in order to give those sports more recognition from the university. In 2011, the SGA created a new role within the executive branch titled the Athletics Liaison.
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In the midst of its longest losing streak of the season, the Marshall men's basketball team returns to the Cam Henderson Center against Tulane aiming to snap the four game skid. Thursday night the 13-8 (4-3 C-USA) Thundering Herd will play host to the Green Wave who have a record of 14-7 (2-5 C-USA), but are much better than what their record indicates.
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The men's hockey club took home a 16-2 victory in its season home opener Saturday against West Liberty at the Memorial Ice Arena in South Charleston. The hockey club, formed last year, now has 18 members on their roster. The members range from having played hockey since they were little to just starting to skate.
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Vinny Curry played his final collegiate level game, albeit an exhibition contest, in the 2012 Senior Bowl. The game featured the top senior football players from across the country, gathered together for one final chance to show National Football League scouts what they have got.
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It was a night of "significance" Saturday for Marshall University's softball team as the team honored a legacy and left one of its own. The team hosted an inaugural Softball Diamond Club Banquet: An ambitious leap from the customary spaghetti dinner.
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Four, cuatro, vier. Regardless of what language you speak, that is the number of games that the Marshall men's basketball team has lost in a row. Granted, three of the four losses have come to teams with a combined record of 49-16, and only one of the games during the losing streak has been at home.
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Senior guard Shaquille Johnson scored a season-high 21 points for the Marshall men's basketball team Saturday on the road against the University of Memphis, but the Thundering Herd came up short, dropping its fourth straight game. The Herd held a one-point lead at halftime after shooting 50 percent from the field.
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This week's former Marshall great came from humble beginnings in West Virginia and went on to showcase his skills not only at Marshall, but around the world from Italy to New York City. Mike D'Antoni was born May 8, 1951 in the small town of Mullens, W.
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Entering the 2011 campaign the Marshall football team had one of the most difficult schedules in the nation, but surprised many when it won the Beef ‘O'Brady's Bowl St. Petersburg to finish out the season at 7-6. That 2011 schedule saw the Herd facing off against seven teams who made bowl games, including two teams which played in BCS Bowl games: West Virginia and Virginia Tech.
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After dropping its third game in a row, the Marshall men's basketball team has suffered another loss, as head coach Tom Herrion announced that Justin Coleman has been dismissed from the program as of Thursday. Coleman, a 6'5" freshman guard from Richmond, Va.
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Erica Woods, sophomore sports management and marketing major, is a key piece to the 12-6 record the Marshall University women's basketball team has posted this season. Woods, originally from St. George's, Bermuda, has been living in the United States since 2007 and has attended Marshall since 2009.
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The Thundering Herd returned home Wednesday in hopes of breaking a two-game losing streak, but the University of Alabama proved to be too tough as the Blazers shut down Marshall in the second and extended the Herd's losing streak to three. UAB won the contest 56-49.
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As the Thundering Herd men's basketball team prepares to take on the University of Alabama-Birmingham on Wednesday, the Blazers will be missing a 7-foot, 250-pound player that has never donned a UAB uniform. That's because 22-year-old graduate student Todd O'Brien's appeal for a transfer release from Saint Joseph's University was denied one week ago.
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The Thundering Herd men’s basketball team returns home to the Cam Henderson Center after a week on t
After losing back-to-back games for the third time this season, the Marshall men's basketball team looks to return to its winning ways Wednesday night against the visiting University of Alabama-Birmingham Blazers. In Marshall's last outing, it lost its first conference game of the season to Southern Miss but still sits tied for second in the Conference USA standings.
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One week after the 2012 Chesapeake Energy Capital Classic, I thought it was time to look back at the splitting of the women's and men's games. The Capital Classic used to take place in one evening, with the West Virginia and Marshall women's basketball teams playing around 5:30 p.
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Women’s basketball assistant coach Ed Geth working to improve Herd post game
The Marshall University women's basketball ball team has put together a strong start to the 2011-2012 basketball season. The team is 12-6 overall and 3-2 in Conference USA. One reason for the Herd's success is assistant coach Ed Geth. Geth, in his first season as an assistant for the Herd, spent the previous seven seasons working as an assistant coach for the Wofford Terriors woman's basketball team.
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Sophomore guard DeAndre Kane scored a game high 21 points, but it was not enough as the Thundering Herd men's basketball team fell Saturday in a road game at Southern Miss. The Herd (13-6, 4-1) trailed by as many as 16 points in the first half, but led a furious comeback in the final 10 minutes to bring the Golden Eagles (17-3, 4-1) within striking distance.
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Everyone has heard of former great Marshall athletes, including the likes of Chad Pennington, Byron Leftwich and Randy Moss. Their leadership, athleticism and raw talent have earned them a special place in Marshall sports history. Each Friday, I will be showcasing a Marshall athlete who deserves recognition by the Herd fans of today.
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The Marshall men's basketball team will head to Hattiesburg, Miss., to take on the Southern Miss Golden Eagles on Saturday, Jan. 21st. This game will mark the 12th meeting of the two teams, with Marshall leading the all time series six games to five.
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Wednesday night inside the Charleston Civic Center, the top two offensive rebounders in the country will square off for state supremacy. Marshall junior forward Dennis Tinnon cleans up the offensive glass an average of 4.
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The Marshall University men's basketball team travels to Charleston on Wednesday to take instate rival West Virginia University in the Chesapeake Energy Capital Classic. Marshall 13-4 overall and 4-0 in conference USA is putting their four-game winning streak on the line against the Mountaineers who are 13-5 overall and 4-2 in the Big East.
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Wednesday night, the Marshall Thundering Herd (13-4, 4-0) and the West Virginia Mountaineers (13-5,4-2), will meet up in Charleston for the 40th meeting between the only two Division I schools in the state. Last season, Marshall exploded in the first half to take a 14-point lead into the locker room.
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Marshall advances to its first-ever Conference USA championship game
In its first Conference USA semi-final game the Marshall men's basketball team punched its ticket to play in another first, the Conference USA Championship. The Thundering Herd clinched the championship birth Thursday night in a 73-62 victory over the second seeded Southern Miss Golden Eagles.
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