Browsing: West Virginia

The death of former West Virginia football coach Bill Stewart on Monday brought about many tributes and remembrances, many with a common theme — mourning the loss of “a true Mountaineer” and “a rock-solid West Virginian.” Stewart was born in West Virginia and died on a golf course in that state nearly 60 years later of an apparent heart attack. But his coaching career — which ended in 2010 after a decade with WVU, including three years in the top job — took him all over the place, with stops in Arizona, Canada, North Carolina, and on the sidelines of…

Dana Holgorsen may have wanted to double-check his straps and chute before taking his initial skydive on Tuesday. Holgorsen is West Virginia University’s new football coach. He was supposed to be a coach-in-waiting for this year, working with incumbent Bill Stewart, then taking over in 2012. But tensions boiled over and Stewart resigned at the end of last week. So, four days later, after the university pulled the plug on a pretty bad situation, Holgorsen found himself skydiving over West Virginia’s New River Gorge with members of the Army Golden Knights parachute team. A chance meeting at a boosters’ event…

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