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GAME TIME

WVU fans, alumni to host game watch parties Saturday

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A time eagerly awaited by many has finally ar-rived- college football sea-son. This year, the Moun-taineers’ first football game will be against the Alabama Crimson Tide at the Geor-gia Dome for the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game.

In preparation for such a highly anticipated event, WVU fans from near and far have made plans and orga-nized events to tailgate and watch the game.

The Mountaineer Mani-acs have planned a trip to Atlanta to attend the game.

“For $450 it’s a round trip to Atlanta, a ticket to the Alumni Association pre game tailgate, a ticket to the WVU vs. Alabama football game and then on Sunday we are going to Turner Field to watch a Ma-jor League Baseball game,” said Steve Orlowski, di-rector of the Mountaineer Maniacs.

The Maniacs have trav-eled to away games before, but for many, this trip will be especially meaningful.

“It’s important to bring

students to the away games just to support our foot-ball team and create more energy and a louder at-mosphere at the Georgia Dome,” Orlowski said.

Although the students and residents in Morgan-town share a great appreci-ation for the Mountaineers, the love for WVU athlet-ics stretches much further than the Morgantown city limits.

Alumni chapters from across the country have planned events for fellow Mountaineers to attend this Saturday. Tailgates and watch parties will be hap-pening in Florida, Tennes-see, Delaware, Texas and California to name a few.

Sean Mulligan from the Greater Los Angeles WVU Alumni group said he is proud to host the organi-zation’s event at Rivalry Sports Bar and Grill in California.

“It’s really important for the alumni out west to feel connected as we are in-credibly far from the school and a lot of us have a hard time making it to many live games,” Mulligan said. “Sit-ting with a huge group of

Garcia prepares for next step as mascotby lAurA hAIGhTassociate city editor

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Michael Garcia has been the Mountaineer Mascot since April, but with West Virginia Uni-versity football season coming up, he’s about to learn a whole new meaning of the title.

Garcia has already made more than 100 appearances at differ-ent events. He said his favorite memories have been reading to chil-dren at elementary schools and summer programs.

“It’s been great. I’ve been able to do tons of things I never thought I would – things all over the state, things in the community,” Garcia said. “I kind of feel like a bigger part of the cam-pus now. Obviously Sat-urday I’m going to find out a whole new spec-trum of what it means to be a Mountaineer.”

As a senior political science student who doubles as Mountain-eer Mascot, he’s had to manage his “spo-radic” schedule by tak-ing a lighter course load and managing his time thoroughly.

“It’s time consuming. It’s a big commitment with a lot of responsibil-

ity,” Garcia said.Garcia sent out a letter

to all WVU students yes-terday reminding them to act responsibly for Sat-urday’s game. He said it’s

important for students and fans to practice good sportsmanship.

“Represent yourself, represent the school and everyone else that goes

here,” Garcia said. “When you go to the game you’re going to have fun but you want people who come to

Kyle Monroe/tHe DAIly AtHenAeuMMountaineer mascot Michael Garcia holds the musket up at the passing of the rifle ceremony in April. Garcia will be repre-senting WVU at the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game Saturday in Atlanta.

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alumni when you’re all the way in Los Angeles re-ally makes you feel like you’re back in Morgan-town watching a game with friends and family.”

Some students said they were excited to stay in Mor-

gantown to watch the game with friends to form their own watch parties.

Roshan Daniel, a junior mechanical and aerospace engineering student, said he’s excited to have a get to-gether with a few friends on Saturday for the occasion.

“We will be grilling some food ahead of time and throwing around the pigskin before the game

starts,” Daniel said. Daniel and his friends

are avid football fans. “I’m definitely excited

for the game,” he said. “We’re huge underdogs so there isn’t a lot of pres-sure on us. I’m really just ready for the season to kick off and WVU football to be back.”

Whether you will be hav-ing your own backyard bar-

becue or traveling all the way to Atlanta, one thing is for sure: blue and gold will be rampant this weekend as fans wear the Flying WV with pride.

As Orlowski said, it seems there’s only one thing left on the WVU community’s mind, “Beat ‘Bama.”

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Presentation helps faculty prep for safety issuesby AlyssA lAzAr

staff writer @dailyathenaeum

The Teaching and Learn-ing Commons, a part of West Virginia University’s Academic Innovation, held a presentation Thursday about how to manage the classroom during a school emergency.

University Police Depart-ment Captain Danny Cam-den and Graduate Assis-tant Christina Patton led the presentation designed for the faculty members of each department.

The focus of the presen-tation was how to get WVU

students and faculty into a “survival mindset.”

“Instructors are in a unique position where they are going to have young adults look at them and as-sume they know what to do,” Patton said. “This pre-sentation is to give instruc-tors the tools they need to know what to do.”

Patton, whose focus is in forensic psychology, is also a military police officer. She conducts emergency situa-tion training regularly.

“At every place (where) an emergency has hap-pened, people think that it could never have hap-pened, and so they weren’t

prepared,” Patton said. “This is especially impor-tant because instructors are the first line of defense for violent behavior.”

Camden spent eight years in the military and has worked with the Uni-versity for 25 years.

“Things happen, and it is becoming more and more obvious that it can happen anywhere. It can happen at the mall, the bank, a pri-mary school or in colleges,” Camden said.

The University Police De-partment has an organiza-tion called the Threat As-sessment Communication Team, which they refer to

as TACT. It is composed of se-

nior officers, representa-tives from Student Life, the Carruth Center and general counsel. Its job is to handle situations that may threaten the WVU community.

“I think we have proba-bly prevented two or three bad things from happening on our campus because this TACT team has come to-gether,” Camden said.

Camden advised in-structors to include infor-mation about what to do in an emergency situation in their syllabi, including shooter emergencies or weather emergencies. He

highly suggests download-ing the LiveSafe app on iPhone or Android devices, as well.

The presentation began with the video, “Shots Fired on Campus: When Light-ning Strikes.” It shared how people should handle po-tentially life-threatening situations such as when a shooter comes to campus.

The video suggested treating any sound that sounds like a gunshot as a real gunshot and then, thinking about the best way to handle the situation. Having a “survival mindset” is extremely important, ac-cording to Camden.

The presentation was organized by Amy Kuhn, the associate director for faculty and graduate stu-dent support at the WVU Teaching and Learning Commons.

“The Teaching and Learning Commons fo-cuses on professional de-velopment for faculty and graduate students,” Kuhn said. “This is one of the pro-grams we provide.”

For more information about what to do in these situations, or to find the manual and video, visit http://police.wvu.edu.

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the university from oppos-ing schools to know that we’re good people. That’s important.”

Garcia said students

and fans need to represent themselves well and be proud of their University.

“We have something to be proud of – the pride of West Virginia is not ar-rogance. The pride is not something that is bad,” he said. “We have things that we deserve to recognize.

We have things that we de-serve to be proud of and the first and foremost thing we’re proud of is the stu-dents we have here.”

Garcia said he can’t ex-actly explain all the things he loves about WVU, but the first thing that came to his mind were the people of West Virginia.

“I don’t want to give you a novel but I love the people,” he said. “That’s why I’m the mascot. I’m the mascot because I think it gives me the best opportunity to interact, get to, and be an ambas-sador for students and non-students.

“Everyone here is here

for their own reason and I believe that’s to develop yourself, mold yourself and become a better person,” he said. “In the process you make a great place like this look even better.”

As far as wearing the buckskins in the summer heat goes, Garcia said he enjoys wearing them and

said they’re only uncom-fortable when the temper-ature spikes above 90 de-grees Fahrenheit.

“It’s actually a lot more comfortable than you think,” he said. “I usually don’t have to worry about a wardrobe anymore.”

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Students can apply for tickets for the football home opener against the Towson Tigers on Satur-day Sept. 6, starting today at 4 p.m.

Registration will be open through Monday Sept. 1 at 11:59 p.m.

Tickets are requested online at http://ticketre-turn.com/WVU.

First time users sign in with their MIX usernames and the last six digits of their student ID number

as their password. Tickets are awarded

through a lottery system where loyalty points for previous attendance will result in a higher chance of getting a ticket if the de-mand exceeds availability.

Tickets can be claimed on Tuesday and Wednes-day on the same website. The game will start at 7:30 p.m. and gates open at 6 p.m.

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Drugs killed Oklahoma inmate in troubled executionOKLaHOMa CiTy (aP) —

An Oklahoma death row in-mate who writhed, moaned and clenched his teeth be-fore he was pronounced dead about 43 minutes af-ter his execution began suc-cumbed to the lethal drugs he was administered, not a heart attack, after the state’s prisons chief halted efforts to kill him, an autopsy re-port released Thursday says.

Department of Correc-tions Director Robert Pat-ton had said inmate Clay-ton Lockett died from a heart attack about 10 min-utes after he ordered the ex-ecution stopped. It hadn’t been clear whether all three execution drugs adminis-tered to Lockett had actu-ally made it into his sys-tem, but the independent autopsy performed for the state determined they did.

Southwestern Institute of Forensic Sciences at Dallas, which performed the au-topsy, concluded that the cause of death was “judi-cial execution by lethal in-jection.” But the report does not answer why the execu-tion took so long and why Lockett writhed on the gurney.

Lockett’s attorney, David Autry of Oklahoma City, did not immediately return a call seeking comment. But Dale Baich of the Federal Public Defender’s Office in Phoenix, who represents a group of Oklahoma death row prisoners who commis-sioned an independent au-topsy of Lockett, said more information is needed.

“What this initial au-topsy report does not ap-pear to answer is what went wrong during Mr. Lockett’s execution,” Baich said in a statement.

Oklahoma and other death penalty states have encountered problems in recent years obtaining le-thal injection chemicals after major drugmakers stopped selling them for use in executions. That has forced states to find alter-native drugs, purchased mostly from loosely regu-lated pharmacies that cus-tom-make medications. Many states refuse to name suppliers and offer no de-tails about how the drugs are tested or how execu-tioners are trained.

Oklahoma put execu-tions on hold after Lockett’s April 29 execution.

Officials at the Okla-homa State Penitentiary in McAlester have said Lock-ett’s vein collapsed dur-ing the lethal injection pro-

cess. The autopsy does not say whether that’s the case, though it does confirm that medical technicians poked him about 12 times as they tried to find a vein before settling on using one in his groin.

Gov. Mary Fallin has or-dered public safety officials to review the events sur-rounding Lockett’s execu-tion, including state execu-tion protocols that had been changed in the weeks ahead of it. The state Court of Criminal Appeals agreed to not schedule executions for six months. Three are set for November and December.

A spokesman for Fallin, Alex Weintz, said the au-topsy report will be part of the full review. “We suspect they are in the final stages of that process,” Weintz said.

He said Fallin still sup-ports use of the death pen-alty. “But we want our ex-ecutions to be successful,” Weintz said, adding that Fallin asked the Oklahoma Department of Public Safety to recommend possible changes to the execution procedures.

The autopsy report does not include any recommen-dations about the protocols.

A spokesman for the Cor-rections Department, Jerry Massie, said prison officials will have no comment until after public safety officials release their findings and recommendations.

In Lockett’s execution, Oklahoma used the seda-tive midazolam for the first time. The drug was also used in lengthy attempts to execute an Ohio inmate in January and an Arizona prisoner last month. Each time, witnesses said the in-mates appeared to gasp af-ter their executions be-gan and continued to labor for air before being pro-nounced dead.

Patton, the director of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections, called for a complete “review/revi-sion” to Oklahoma’s execu-tion procedures following the Lockett execution, and said he was willing to adopt other states’ protocols.

Among his concerns were that the state’s current pro-tocol puts all responsibil-ity and decision-making in the hands of the Oklahoma State Penitentiary warden. Patton, who came to Okla-homa from the Arizona De-partment of Corrections,

didn’t specifically mention the drug midazolam or any other formula approved for use in the Oklahoma death chamber.

Midazolam is part of a three-drug and a two-drug protocol in Oklahoma. Lockett’s execution used a three-drug protocol —mid-azolam, vecuronium bro-mide and potassium chlo-ride. The state also has a protocol that would use midazolam with hydromor-phone, the same combina-tion used in the problem-atic executions in Ohio and Arizona this year.

Toxicology reports said all three lethal drugs were found in Lockett’s sys-tem — the sedative in brain tissue and elsewhere and the other drugs in his blood.

A June lawsuit against the Department of Correc-tions on behalf of 21 Okla-homa prisoners alleged that prison officials are ex-perimenting on death row inmates and violating the U.S. Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual pun-ishment by tinkering with the state’s lethal injection procedures. The state says those claims are false.

APThe gurney in the execution chamber at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary is pictured in McAlester, Okla. A report on a prob-lematic execution in Oklahoma shows lethal drugs caused the inmate to die, not a heart attack, after the state’s prisons chief halted efforts to kill him.

Obama sets no timeline for action on immigration

WaSHiNGTON (aP) — With a self-imposed deadline looming, President Barack Obama said Thursday he still intends to act on his own to change immigration policies but stopped short of reiter-ating his past vows to act by end of summer.

Obama raised the slim hope that Congress could take action on a broad im-migration overhaul after the midterm elections in No-vember. He said that if law-makers did not pass an over-haul, “I’m going to do what I can to make sure the system works better.”

But for the first time since pledging to act by summer’s end, he signaled that such a target date could slip. He said that the administration had been working to reduce the flow of unaccompanied minors attempting to cross the border and noted that the number of apprehen-sions at the border had fallen in August.

“Some of these things do affect time lines and we’re just going to be work-ing through as systemati-cally as possible in order to get this done,” he said in a news conference where he also addressed Russian ag-gression in Ukraine and ac-tion against Islamic State militants.

Two months ago, Obama angrily conceded that the House did not intend to take up immigration legislation this year and ordered Home-land Security Secretary Jeh Johnson and Attorney Gen-eral Eric Holder to come up with actions the president could take on his own.

“I expect their recom-mendations before the end of summer and I intend to adopt those recommenda-tions without further delay,” he said at the time.

Since then, the admin-istration was forced to deal with the sharp rise of young migrants from Central

America who were cross-ing the southwest border. Obama asked Congress for $3.7 billion to deal with the flow, a request that Republi-can lawmakers rejected.

At the same time, some Democrats worried that if Obama took action on his own to reduce deportations it would mobilize Republi-can voters in hotly contested Senate races.

Frank Sharry of the pro-immigrant group America’s Voice said there were no in-dications the White House planned to delay the an-nouncement, and lots of ev-idence Obama is prepar-ing for an announcement in September.

“If for whatever reasons they decide to delay, it’s go-ing to be a huge problem for an immigration reform movement that has worked tirelessly for years and been promised action for years,” Sharry said. “I don’t think people are going to take a de-lay without a big response.”

Obama said Thursday that addressing the inflow of unaccompanied minors has not stopped the process of looking into “how do we get a smart immigration system in place while we’re waiting for Congress to act.

“And it continues to be my belief that, if I can’t see the congressional ac-tion, that I need to do at least what I can in order to make the system work better.”

The most sweeping, con-troversial step under con-sideration involves halting deportation for millions, a major expansion of a 2012 Obama program that de-ferred prosecutions for those brought here illegally as children.

Roughly half a mil-lion people have bene-fited from that program, known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA.

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The Hackensaw Boys have been gracing the stage at 123 for nearly 10 years. They come from Charlottesville, Va., but have spread through-out Virginia, Tennes-see, North Carolina and Louisiana.

The Hackensaw Boys are said to be one of the most exciting groups charting the new territory of to-day’s diverse American music scene. The audi-ence loves them, and their sound has continued to expand.

Anyone with a love for bluegrass will love their music. The band also en-joys playing rock ‘n’ roll, old time, punk and indie.

Along with every mem-ber singing harmony, the band’s instruments in-clude a banjo, guitar, man-dolin, fiddle, harmonica, upright bass, charismo and trap kit. A charismo is a homemade tin can contraption.

The band members in-clude Ferd Moyse on strings and horsehair, Jimmy Stelling on thumb picks, Brian Gorby on traps and sticks and David Sick-men on strings and impro-vised straps.

“Known for their rous-ing blend of fiddles, banjos and high harmonies, Hack-ensaw Boys create a rous-ing party-pleasing sound that quickly turns any gath-

ering into a scene filled with festive mayhem,” said LJ Guiliani, 123’s owner.

The Hackensaw Boys have earned a reputation as provocateurs of punk bluegrass mash-ups that always get the crowd on their feet.

To find more informa-tion on this group, view photos or see where up-coming shows are, visit their website at http://hackensawboys.com.

ApplePappy, a local mountain music band from Morgantown, will close the night.

The members include Emily Jo Tanzey on vocals

and guitar, Smith Sarver on vocals and guitar, Ben Wil-liams on mandolin and vo-cals, and Thomas Blue on stand-up bass and vocals.

For more information about ApplePappy and to hear some of their music, visit their Facebook page at http://facebook.com/ApplePappy.

The show begins tonight at 9 p.m. at 123 Pleasant Street and is for ages 18 and older.

Tickets are priced at $15 and can be purchased at the door or at http://show-clix.com/event/3851553.

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Dust off your cowboy boots because Brian Davis and Clare Dunn will rock the Davisson Brother Mu-sic Hall stage at Schmitt’s Saloon tonight.

Both are veteran per-formers of Morgantown. Davis previously opened for Brantley Gilbert, and Dunn opened for Par-malee. However, this is a particularly special match-up.

Davis and Dunn have been touring separately, but will come together at Schmitt’s for a special one-time performance .

Davis, a North Carolina native, made a name for himself last year. He has been on tour and recorded some of the biggest party anthems in country music.

His sound embraces all sides of country with a per-fect combination of gently belted ballads and beer-clanking party jams.

Concert-goers can prob-ably expect Davis to play hits like “Pull Up A Tail-gate” and “Against the World.”

Dunn, a rare breed of country artist, shows fans that being tough

isn’t just for the boys. After landing her first

publishing deal, Dunn has shown no signs of slowing down. Her hits “Get Out” and “The Cowboy Side of You” show off her exclu-sive hard-rocking country sound.

A combination of whip-ping electric guitar and sweet melodies has the po-tential to appeal to country fans across the spectrum. She’s sure to have everyone stomping their boots by the end of the night.

“Clare is one of the very few female lead vocalists who also plays lead gui-tar,” said Todd King, owner and operator of Schmitt’s Saloon. “It’s an experience any music (fan) would not want to miss.”

Also performing is a West Virginia favorite, The Kenny Jones Band. The band will open the show and get the crowd pumped for an incredible evening of country music.

During this perfor-mance, Jones will be film-ing his first live video in Schmitt’s.

Fans are guaranteed a one-of-a-kind experience in the Davisson Brother Music Hall as they enjoy an arena concert feel in the comfort of a cozy saloon.

With uncompromised sound, country music fans shouldn’t pass up the chance to catch these two talented country contenders.

King ensures Schmitt’s patrons that the best is yet to come.

“We are thankful that Morgantown has em-braced live music like it has in the first year and half we’ve been open,” King said. “We have even bigger acts this fall.”

Country music fans can also look forward to acts such as Jana Kramer, Love and Theft and the legend-ary Hairband Jack Russell’s Great White.

Tickets for all three acts are $10 in advance and $15 at the door.

For more information on tonight’s performance and those to come, visit http://schmittssaloon.com.

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Weekend Music in MorgantownDavis and Dunn team up at Schmitt’s Saloon tonight

Hackensaw Boys, ApplePappy play 123 Pleasant Street

The time has come, Moun-taineers, for the first football game of the season.

For fans making the nine and a half hour trip to Atlanta, consider this a mini vacation. The second week of the fall 2014 semester is over and we already need a break.

Along the drive to Atlanta, there are many places you can get out of the car, stretch your legs and enjoy what each state you pass through has to offer.

We’ve compiled a list of the top five places you need to visit on your way.

1. The West Virginia Ital-ian Heritage Festival

The West Virginia Italian Heritage Festival is back for its 36th year. There will be free, live music from John Angotti and Journey’s Steve Augeri and wine tasting throughout the weekend.

WVIHF is a nationally rec-ognized festival celebrating the history of Italian culture in Appalachia. This year, the festival will run Aug. 29-31 in Clarksburg, W.Va.

For more specific informa-tion on this year’s events, visit http://wvihf.com.

2. Dismal FallsDismal Falls is located in

Giles County, Virginia. The 15-foot-tall water-

fall is easily accessible from both the Appalachian Trail and the road itself. Dis-mal Creek is approximately 50 feet wide and is part of a 400-million-year-old stone formation.

Besides the breathtak-ing beauty, it is a particularly good area for trout fishing.

3. Forbidden CavernsSevierville, Tenn. is home

to a truly spectacular under-ground formation known as Forbidden Caverns.

There are fully guided tours here to provide visitors with a fun, educational time looking at different forma-tions, natural chimneys and a stream under special light-ing and sound effects. There are hand rails at the more dangerous, exciting parts of the journey through the caves.

You can experience this for yourself starting at 10 a.m. The last tour departs at 5 p.m. and it is closed on Sundays.

4. Atlanta Food Truck Park & Market

The Atlanta Food Truck Park is open Thursday through Sunday. Part of At-lanta’s local culture, the walk-ing food experience also showcases art by local artists, hosts a farmer’s market and holds special events during the holidays.

With around 35 rotating food trucks available, there is sure to be something on the

menu for you. If you want street meat, barbecue, pani-nis, Mexican or anything in between, you can probably find it here.

The food park is located on 1850 Howell Mill Rd. in Atlanta.

5. Six Flags Over GeorgiaAfter your exhausting road

trip and sporting event fun, you can relax on Sunday and

rest.Or, you could head out

to the amusement park, Six Flags Over Georgia.

The park contains 14 thrill rides including national fa-vorites like the Batman and Superman rides. If it is a par-ticularly sunny Georgia day, the water park, Hurricane Harbor, is sure to cool you off with its wave pool and many slides.

If you aren’t into rides or getting wet, there are events like Extreme Karaoke and the

Looney Tunes Dance Party.When you get hungry from

all the fun, Six Flags provides almost as many dining op-tions as the Atlanta Food Truck Park.

Located about half an hour from Atlanta, the park is in Austell and is open Sunday from 10:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.

So, don’t just rush to the football game. Always re-member, the journey is half the fun.

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Student input is a mustThe West Virginia Uni-

versity Student Govern-ment Association was up in arms, Wednesday, over the recent decision by the University to remove stu-dent participation from Homecoming. This in-cluded the removal of the Homecoming Court’s cam-paigning, as well as re-moving the student body vote for the King and Queen.

So here’s the big ques-tion: Why were the stu-dents not at all involved in this decision?

On one hand, some stu-dents have thought run-ning for homecoming king and queen is purely a pop-ularity contest of who’s

prettier, who’s involved in Greek life or athletics or who gave you the best of-fer while campaigning. On the other hand, there are those who care more about the tradition of homecom-ing rather than looking at it as a competition.

Since we were fresh-men in high school most of us have participated in some sort of home-coming event every year, whether it be the home-coming football game, vot-ing for homecoming king and queen, the home-coming dance or the four days of Spirit Week’s crazy dress themes leading up to the big homecoming weekend.

Needless to say, every one of these events in-volved the students and was created specifically for the students to show how proud they are of their school.

Yes, years have passed and we’re in college now where some of these high school traditions have dis-appeared, but we’re still students. We have every right to continue in cel-ebrating the remaining events, specifically who we want to represent our University as Homecom-ing King and Queen when we attend our Homecom-ing football game against Kansas.

Whether it turns out that

it was all a popularity con-test or not, most of us will be proud we were able to have some sort of say in a Mountaineer tradition.

Fortunately for us, SGA fought hard for WVU’s stu-dent body, and, less than a day later, we got our rights back to campaign and vote. Thank you, SGA.

With so much emphasis on student involvement at WVU, student approval of such things involving and particularly impacting the student body is absolutely necessary. Without the students, what is a school? We, the students, are West Virginia University.

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Sleepy students aren’t just lazy

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You can feel the excite-ment in the air. We’re all back on campus. We’ve welcomed 6,000 new stu-dents to the Mountaineer family this month. And, oh yeah, the Mountain-eers are about to take on Alabama.

On Saturday, we will face the vaunted Crim-son Tide in Atlanta in the Chick-fil-A Kick-off Game. I can’t wait to get there to cheer on the Mountaineers, along with 20,000-some of the great-est fans in the country, and to represent our great state.

No matter where you watch the game this week-end (it’s on ABC at 3:30 p.m.), I encourage all of you to represent WVU and our state as positively as possible, as the whole na-tion will have its eyes on our team, our University and our town.

Show the country why

we’re all proud to be Mountaineers. Let’s give our athletic programs something to be proud of in the same way that they make us proud ev-ery time they represent us.

Win or lose, remember to respect being part of the WVU tradition – one filled with success and stories passed on from generation to generation. Be responsible, because that’s the reputation we want and deserve to have. As you and I both know, all it takes is one act of irresponsibility to steal the spotlight from a huge victory.

When we beat Alabama on Saturday (yep, we are going to shock the world), let’s celebrate like cham-pions – in a fun yet safe way. That way, the play-ers, our great state and University can shine like they deserve.

Have fun and be s a f e t h i s w e e k e n d and, of course, let’s go Mountaineers.

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A letter from our Mountaineer

It’s official: Monday, the American Academy of Pe-diatrics has issued a state-ment of recommendation to start middle and high schools later in the morn-ing. It has now been scien-tifically proven that start-ing school before 8:30 a.m. disrupts the sleep cycles of adolescents and has major drawbacks that have led to an “epidemic” of sleep-de-prived teens.

If you’re like me, you’re probably wondering why this couldn’t have been sci-entifically proven in 2007. I remember the hell of having to be seated in homeroom at 7:20 a.m. sharp all too well.

It’s not simply a case of teenage angst. At the on-set of puberty, the natural sleep-wake cycle actually begins to shift by as much as two hours. Fighting that natural circadian rhythm in adolescents is not in our

best interest, according to the AAP.

This statement is a pretty big deal, consider-ing it comes from the na-tion’s largest pediatrician group. According to the AAP, kids need eight and a half to nine and a half hours of sleep, and this is nearly impossible to achieve with schools starting at 7:20 a.m. There are even teen-agers who live a sizable dis-tance from school and are picked up as early as 5:45 a.m.

Among the AAP’s list of the consequences of inef-ficient sleep are: increased risk for diabetes, higher rate of car accidents, increased risk for anxiety and de-pression, lower academic achievement, decreased motivation and impair-ments in memory.

The AAP even recognizes that caffeine consumption is not a quick fix or substi-tute for sufficient sleep, nor is catching up with sleep on the weekend. Personally, I’m glad this part was added because many people in to-

day’s society have the atti-tude of, “just chug an energy drink and you’ll be fine.” Getting a rush and then crashing later is nothing like the natural energy you get from being well-rested, which is so essential to teen-agers’ developing brains and bodies.

It’s acknowledged in the AAP statement that there are other factors that con-tribute to sleep depriva-tion in teens, such as after-school activities, homework and jobs. The use of tech-nology late at night is also a big disrupter of natu-ral sleep. However, a too-early start to the school day is listed as a “critical” factor.

There are some obvious roadblocks in the way of the 8:30 a.m. start being made a major public policy imme-diately. These include ad-justing times for extracur-riculars, especially athletic practices and games, and also the reduction in after-school employment hours for students. There’s also the possibility of transpor-

tation and scheduling issues arising, simply because ev-erything would have to be changed.

However, I believe these problems can be easily sur-passed when you consider the innumerable benefits that can be achieved by sim-ply pushing things back an hour later. Any teacher who has tried to engage a class of student zombies in first pe-riod would probably agree.

The American Medical Association and Center for Disease Control Prevention has recognized the health risks of inadequate sleep for adolescents before, but the AAP is taking it a step further by citing a spe-cific time. I think it’s amaz-ing that someone is speak-ing up to make this positive change for the well-being of adolescents.

Now when I exaggerate to my kids that I walked miles in the snow to school, like all parents do, I can maybe even shock them that I was there by 7:20 a.m., as well.

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A reverse jinx prediction for WVU

It’s almost here, the big game, WVU vs. Alabama. The battle of the back-ups, as I like to call it. Af-ter all, that’s what we’re really getting. Perennial powerhouse Alabama, who, spoiler alert, will start former Florida State backup Jacob Coker Sat-urday against our Moun-taineers, led by former Florida State backup Clint Trickett.

How far have these two programs fallen from grace to have to start an-other school’s backup on the opening weekend of college football? Yes, Flor-ida State won it all last year with Jameis Winston, but he is a completely dif-ferent QB than those other two guys.

Both of these teams are coming off incredible runs at the quarterback posi-tion. Alabama had an ex-traordinary run with Greg McElroy, who won them a national title in 2009. He was followed by AJ McCar-ron, arguably the Tide’s greatest QB of all time, who led them to two titles in three years.

WVU lit up score-boards for three seasons with Geno Smith. He was preceded by our greatest QB of all time, Pat White. Pro careers aside, those are four dominant col-lege quarterbacks these schools got to enjoy.

Now, the quarterback position is the biggest question mark for both teams heading into the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game. We know Alabama’s de-fense is stacked - it always is. They’re deep at wide receiver and have a three-headed monster at run-ning back.

For the first time un-der Dana Holgorsen, the Mountaineers have an improved and experi-enced secondary. How-ever, the loss of Ishmael Banks hurts. We also have one of the deepest back-fields in the country. For a full preview of the Moun-taineers’ game Saturday, check out today’s Game-day Edition from The Daily Athenaeum.

I don’t have to remind you how big of an under-dog we are, that Vegas has us pegged at +26 or how no one is giving us a snow-ball’s chance in hell. We all know this.

The only way we are go-ing to win this game Satur-day is if our backup plays better than their backup. The quarterback is the most important position on the field, and both teams are starting scrubs.

You want to know why no one is picking us to do well this season? Clint Trickett. Can you guess why Alabama isn’t picked to win the SEC for the first time in forever? It’s ques-tions at quarterback.

I don’t know if it’s the new, less harsh transfer rules or just inexplica-ble poor recruiting. But the worst starters for both teams come Saturday will be the quarterbacks.

Now, I understand this is all just speculation, and I could look like the big-gest idiot in print by Sat-urday night.

But if I know football like I think I do (I’ve never played an organized down in my life), it’s that Jimbo Fisher’s favorite former backup will dismantle his opponent Saturday at 3:30 p.m.

Clint Trickett and WVU reverse jinx prediction complete.

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NEW YORK (AP) — Joan Rivers is in a New York City hospital Thursday after she was rushed from a doctor’s office when she went into cardiac arrest, police and hospital officials said.

The 81-year-old comedi-an’s condition wasn’t im-mediately known.

“This morning, Joan Riv-ers was taken to The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, where she is being at-tended to. Her family wants to thank everybody for their outpouring of love and sup-port,” said Sid Dinsay, a spokesman for Mount Sinai Hospital. “We will provide an update on her condition as it becomes available.”

New York City police of-ficials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity be-cause they weren’t autho-rized to publicly name Riv-ers, said she was taken to the hospital just after 9:30 a.m. Thursday.

Rivers’ representa-tives didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.

The entertainer has logged a half-century in show business and gave rise to red carpet commentary - and the snarky criticism that often accompanies it. Her signature red carpet query: “Who are you wearing?”

She continues to main-tain a busy schedule, and was to perform a show Friday at the Count Basie Theatre in Red Bank, New Jersey. That show was postponed because of her hospitalization.

Rivers spoke at an em-ployee event at Time Inc. in New York on Wednesday night and appeared healthy, practically jogging when she walked in to take her seat, said Shira Blum, an online project manager.

“She seemed totally healthy,” Blum said. “She

was very energetic, hilari-ous, funny. And it was such a shock, a surprise to hear the news this morning.”

Rivers took questions and said she wakes up ev-

ery morning and “is thank-ful that everything works,” Blum said.

The host of “Fashion Po-lice” on E! network, Rivers also presides over an on-

line talk show, “In Bed With Joan” and co-stars with her daughter, Melissa, on the WEtv reality show, “Joan & Melissa: Joan Knows Best?”

Her latest book, “Diary of

a Mad Diva,” was released this summer.

In 2009, Rivers emerged as the winner of NBC’s “The Celebrity Apprentice.” A documentary, “Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work,” premiered in theaters in 2010.

A native of New York, Riv-ers originally entered show business with the dream of a theatrical career, but com-edy became a way to pay the bills while she auditioned for acting roles.

“Somebody said, `You can make six dollars stand-ing up in a club,’” she told The Associated Press in 2013, “and I said, `Here I go!’ It was better than typ-ing all day.”

After proving herself in comedy clubs as a rarity - a woman comedian - Riv-ers was a smash on her first booking on “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Car-son” in 1965. “God, you’re funny,” Carson told her.

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Suspect in violinist’s death held

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Two homeless men accused of killing a concert violinist during a robbery in her ru-ral home were ordered held without bail Thursday after a prosecutor detailed how the 61-year-old musician was shot twice and stabbed after opening her door to let them use her phone.

“They obviously preyed upon her willingness to as-sist them,” Assistant U.S. At-torney Timothy Lynch said in arguing against the re-lease of Jonathan Conk-lin, 43, and Charles San-ford, 30, pending further proceedings.

Conklin and Sanford have pleaded not guilty to federal charges of carjack-ing, using a gun during a violent crime and bring-ing a stolen vehicle across state lines. A Chautauqua County grand jury will con-sider state murder charges, prosecutors have said.

Two friends found Mary Whitaker’s body Aug. 20 in the attached garage of the Westfield home where she lived during the summer while performing at the Chautauqua Institution, a lakeside arts and intellec-tual community in western New York.

Sanford and Conklin were arrested two days later in nearby Erie, Pennsylva-nia, where the victim’s sto-len vehicle was recovered and where her credit card had been used hours after her death to purchase a flat-screen television at a Wal-Mart, authorities said. Both men have confessed, Lynch said.

The prosecutor’s account and court documents de-tail how the suspects, who had met months earlier at an Erie homeless shel-ter, planned and carried out the robbery. Conklin “wanted to live like a rock star” and needed money to buy drugs, Sanford told investigators, according to an FBI agent’s affidavit filed in support of the criminal charges.

Neither Conklin nor San-ford, who both have crim-

inal records, spoke during Thursday’s detention hear-ing. Sanford’s assigned at-torney, Mark Mahoney, said afterward that he had yet to view the police interviews of the suspects recorded after their separate arrests.

“I do understand (Conk-lin) may be trying to switch the blame onto Mr. Sanford,” Mahoney said. “That’s not surprising. It happens a lot.”

Public defender Kim-berly Schechter, who is rep-resenting Conklin, did not immediately return a phone message.

In court Thursday, Lynch described how, with Conk-lin hiding out of sight, San-ford knocked on the door of Whitaker’s ranch-style home about 6:45 a.m. Aug. 20 and asked to use her phone, telling her his ve-hicle had run out of gas. Whitaker gave her phone to Sanford, who began dialing.

“With that ruse, it was Mr. Conklin who came out and shot Miss Whitaker in the torso,” Lynch said.

She was shot again in the leg before Sanford dragged her into the garage and joined Conklin in searching Whitaker’s home for valu-ables, the prosecutor said. Afterward, “while she was gurgling on her own blood, Mr. Sanford then stabbed Miss Whitaker in the neck,” Lynch said.

The Chautauqua Sym-phony Orchestra had per-formed its last concert of the season the evening be-fore. During the rest of the year, Whitaker lived in New York City and performed with the Westchester Phil-harmonic Orchestra and on Broadway shows.

A tribute on the down-state orchestra’s website called her a “true and car-ing friend and an exquisite artist.”

Sanford was convicted in 2012 of statutory sexual as-sault. Conklin has four fel-ony convictions, includ-ing for burglary, and was wanted for grand larceny at the time of his arrest.

A preliminary hearing was scheduled for Sept. 9.

NEW YORK (AP) — Rachel Maddow’s top producer at MSNBC is the new man in charge on the daytime talk show “The View.”

ABC announced Thurs-day that Bill Wolff is the new executive producer of “The View,” which begins a new season on Sept. 15. Wolff re-places Bill Geddie, who de-cided not to stay when ABC said Wolff would be brought in alongside him. Three other behind-the-scenes appointments were made.

ABC’s release also did not mention the show’s in-ventor, Barbara Walters, who had said when she re-tired from an on-air role last spring that she would con-tinue working at the show behind the scenes. Walters will be a consultant, but the changes were ABC’s deci-sion, spokeswoman Lauri Hogan said.

More panelists are ex-pected to be named to join Whoopi Goldberg and Rosie O’Donnell.

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An enormous challenge

awaitsFinally, it’s here. After months of all the

hype entering the 2014 sea-son, the time has come for the Mountaineers to show what they’re really made of – or not made of – as one day remains until the start of the season for WVU in the 2014 Chick-Fil-A Kickoff Game against No.2 Alabama in Atlanta.

Since the start of fall camp, many West Virginia players and coaches have said how much more confidence and chemistry the 2014 Moun-taineer squad possesses com-pared to any of fourth-year head coach Dana Holgors-en’s first three squads.

All of that can be thrown away once game time rolls around, because the only thing that matters to me then is how each player actually performs on the field in the Georgia Dome.

That will be the true test to see just how well the ex-traordinary chemistry, that so many Mountaineers have said they’ve felt so far, will either pay off or go right down the drain against one of the toughest teams in the country.

Even with the level of competition that the Moun-taineers will have to battle through the game, Holgorsen said his entire squad will be ready for the challenge that lies ahead.

“(Alabama) has been play-ing at a very high level here for the last six years, so they’re an outfit that is tough to beat,” Holgorsen said. “Our guys understand that, and look forward to the opportunity to be able to get it on Saturday.”

Well, yes, of course Hol-gorsen’s squad is looking for-ward to playing in a nation-ally televised game that has the hype of some bowl games.

But will the excitement, chemistry and the “continu-ity” that Holgorsen has talked about all camp be enough to withstand the massive men across the board for ‘Bama?

For me, the answer is no. Alabama has options that

West Virginia doesn’t have. Between the Tide’s three massive running backs in T.J. Yeldon, Derrick Henry and Kenyan Drake, a new offen-sive coordinator who wants nothing more than to prove he still has what it takes to be part of a championship-cal-iber team and a head coach who may just be the best there is in the business, Ala-bama is outfitted for a cham-pionship run.

Then there’s the one as-pect which may point in the Mountaineers’ favor: The un-certainty with Alabama’s sig-nal caller. Right now, and es-sentially up until game time, Saban said he does not intend on naming a starter between redshirt senior Blake Sims and junior Jake Coker.

However, WVU defensive coordinator and linebackers coach Tony Gibson said this isn’t an advantage at all for WVU, it only adds more chal-lenges with having to prepare for two QB’s instead of one.

“The number one thing we have to do is make sure that we’re ready as a defense to run our package,” he said. “That’s the key to all of it right now.

“We have to prepare for a lot of different things, (espe-cially with) Blake Sims (be-ing) a little more athletic than Jake Coker.”

But, that’s not all. Perhaps ‘Bama’s most lethal weapon that can be used against the Mountaineers is the Tide’s top-five caliber defense this season.

On top of WVU’s offensive line having to do their job of protecting their quarterback, those roles will have to be heighted with redshirt senior starting quarterback Clint Trickett coming off of shoul-der surgery in the spring and Trickett acknowledging this week that he has yet to be hit since coming back.

All it takes is one blow, and West Virginia may be out of this game sooner than the loyal Mountaineer Nation would like to believe.

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file photoWest Virignia, led by safety Karl Joseph (No. 8), takes the field during the season opener against Georgia State in 2013.

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West Virginia will face No. 2 Alabama Saturday in the annual Chik-fil-A Kick-off Game at 3:30 p.m., in At-lanta’s Georgia Dome.

In the two teams’ first ever meeting, West Virginia enters the game with a lot to prove.

Despite being 26-point underdogs, the Mountain-eers feature a bevy of tal-ented playmakers and vet-eran leaders on both sides of the ball.

Redshirt senior quarter-back Clint Trickett has been handed the keys to the of-fense with a plethora of tal-ent surrounding him.

West Virginia offensive coordinator Shannon Daw-son said Trickett’s football IQ is off the charts, making

him an ideal candidate to manage the game and allow the playmakers around him to do their job.

“I believe in him whole-heartedly,” Dawson said. “I watch him everyday. His mind for the game is ex-tremely high, and so he just has to go out there and play within himself.”

Not only will Trickett have one of the nation’s deepest backfields at his disposal, he also has three proven playmakers in re-ceivers Mario Alford, Kevin White and Daikiel Shorts. The trio combined for 107 receptions for 1,554 yards and nine touchdowns in 2013.

West Virginia enters Sat-urday’s contest with a new multischeme defense un-der first-year defensive co-ordinator Tony Gibson.

Middle linebacker Nick

Kwiatkoski – the team’s leading tackler in 2013 – will anchor a talented group of linebackers. Wes Tonkery, Brandon Golson, Isaiah Bruce and Edward Muld-row all figure to see signif-icant playing time, as well.

The Mountaineers will run a three-man front on the defensive line against Alabama’s pro-style of-fense. Coaches have spoken highly of junior nose tackle Kyle Rose, and FCS-trans-fer Shaquille Riddick looks to be WVU’s next great pass rusher.

Sophomore cornerback Daryl Worley headlines a much improved second-ary, while veteran safeties Karl Joseph and K.J. Dillon also return from the 2013 unit. Talented true fresh-man Dravon Henry will be the starting free safety.

“We kind of forget that

(Henry) is a true freshman because he is a mature kid, and he doesn’t have ups and downs” said West Virginia head coach Dana Holgorsen.

Alabama enters Satur-day’s matchup coming off an 11-2 overall, 7-1 SEC record in 2013, which in-cluded consecutive losses to Auburn and Oklahoma to end the season.

Since then, record-set-ting quarterback AJ Mc-Carron has departed for the NFL and former-USC head coach Lane Kiffin was hired as the offensive coordinator.

McCarron’s successors – at least for this week – will be redshirt senior Blake Sims and junior Jake Coker. Alabama head coach Nick Saban said he intends to play both quarterbacks Sat-urday with the majority of

the snaps going to whoever gets the “hot hand.”

Alabama won’t need to rely too heavily on Sims or Coker in its pro-style of-fense, as the Tide feature three talented backs of their own in T.J. Yeldon, Derrick Henry and Kenyan Drake.

Defensively, Saban said the defensive linemen are more experienced and ath-letic. In its 3-4 scheme, Alabama is very good at stopping the run with a three-man front.

Saban also said the Tide are thin at linebacker, but the secondary is much more experienced than a year ago.

Dawson said it best: “If you can’t get your guys ready for this one, you have bigger issues you need to worry about.”

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West Virginia looks forward to home openerby ryan petroVich


The West Virginia wom-en’s soccer team will host Duke in their home opener tonight at Dick Dlesk Soc-cer Stadium.

The Mountaineers (1-1) will look to get over the .500 hump, while the Blue Devils (0-2) will be searching for their first win of the season.

West Virginia is coming off a comeback win against Missouri, a game in which the Mountaineers trailed 2-0 but managed to score three goals in the second half to prevail. With a 1-1 record, the Mountaineers are No. 13 in the nation, ac-cording to NCAA rankings.

Duke, with a winless re-cord, is off to its shaki-est start since 1996. The Blue Devils began the sea-son ranked No. 18, accord-ing to NCAA polls, but two straight defeats have knocked them out of the rankings.

In 2013, WVU and Duke played to a 1-1 draw. It cre-ated frustration for both squads as multiple oppor-tunities were missed for both teams.

“Either team could have won that game,” said Nikki Izzo-Brown, WVU head coach. “Obviously we got a penalty kick called on us, but it could’ve gone either

way. Both teams had op-portunities and could have won.”

Even though the Blue Devils are struggling early, Izzo-Brown said she is still confident Duke will be a test for her Mountaineers.

“They have one of the best recruiting classes in the country coming in,” she said. “They do have a lot of returners and they gradu-ated some just like us, but they definitely have some of their lethal attackers back.”

West Virginia will hope junior forward Kelsie Ma-loney can continue her suc-cess. Maloney scored one goal and had two assists against Missouri, playing a major role in the Mountain-eers’ first win of the season.

“I definitely need to step up and help the team,” Ma-loney said. “In the Missouri game, we connected more and came out as a team, and we just stepped up and did what we had to do.”

“Kelsie definitely was somebody that really stepped up as a leader,” Izzo-Brown said. “She took it upon herself to do her job and do it well. I was re-ally proud that Kelsie stood up and finished those opportunities.”

Maloney’s performance at the Penn State Invita-tional earned her the title of Big 12 Conference Offen-sive Player of the Week.

Izzo-Brown said she and her players are excited to be playing in Morgantown again. She said she believes the fans will be treated to an excellent matchup.

“I think it’s really excit-ing for our fans to have that quality of team come in,” she said. “I think it’s going to be a really electric 7:30 kick-off (tonight).

“I don’t even know if Duke’s been here for any other sport, but I think we’re going to (allow) the community to see a great Duke team.”

West Virginia and Duke will kick it off at 7:30 to-night at Dick Dlesk Soccer Stadium.

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WVU opens season against St. John’s

file photoWVU senior forward Andy Bevin attempts to get around defenders during a game against Western Michigan in 2013.

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Following a nine-month hiatus and two exhibition games, the West Virginia men’s soccer team will kick off its 2014 regular season schedule with a home game against St. John’s tonight at 5:30.

“We’re really excited,” said WVU head coach Mar-lon LeBlanc. “It’ll be a big crowd and beautiful night. We just have to make sure we’re not overly excited. We’re just going to try and

relax and enjoy the game. But these guys are excited after sitting around for al-most nine months, wait-ing to play a game. The energy has been great all preseason.”

LeBlanc and his team will certainly face a tough test in their first go-around of the season. St. John’s, a member of the Big East Conference, has been a dominat program for the last several years. The Red Storm is coming off an 11-7-2 finish and a second round loss to Virginia in the NCAA tournament in 2013.

Coach Dave Masur is enter-ing his 23rd year of coach-ing at St. John’s.

“(St. John’s) is one of the traditional powerhouses of college soccer. Because of that, they’re one of those teams that has to command your respect,” LeBlanc said.

“They’re always pre-pared, super fit and super organized. You’re talking about a program that has made 22 of the last 24 NCAA tournaments. They know how to win, they know how to get results. Patience, ef-fort and desire will go a long way toward beating a qual-

ity team like St. John’s.”WVU finished 1-1 in its

two preseason games, in-cluding a 2-1 win against the Dayton Flyers. De-fenseman Haydon Ben-nett scored in the seventh minute, and the win was capped with a 74th minute goal by Joey Piatczyc.

Although the Red Storm didn’t generate a ton of points last season, LeBlanc said he expects a high-scor-ing game.

“The first goal in soccer is always so important. If we can score first, it’ll go a long way,” he said. “But I think

we’ll have to score second and third, as well.

“One of the things about St. John’s is they’re the team that you have to grind out to get a win. But scoring first just relieves a lot of the pressure.”

A win against St. John’s will go a long way for WVU, who is seeking a quality win against a quality program. WVU lost at St. John’s last year 1-0.

“We haven’t really talked about how important this game is, but our team has so much experience from last year. Therefore, these

big games aren’t big games anymore. I think our play-ers know it because they’ve been through many of them. This is a huge game,” LeBlanc said.

“We’re not going to white wash it and say it’s not. St. John’s will play big schools (who), from an RPI per-spective, (are) a top 10-15 team. So a result like this goes a long way not just for us but for our conference. It raises the RPI profile of the entire MAC. We’re trying to carry the flag.”

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Gold & blue Player’s Challenge this weekendby niCole CUrtin


The West Virginia Univer-sity volleyball team will be-gin its season tonight with its home opener against Brigham Young University.

The Gold & Blue Play-ers Challenge tournament is this weekend at the Col-iseum. The Mountaineers will face BYU, Indiana Uni-versity-Purdue Univer-sity Indianapolis and the University of Toledo this weekend.

The Mountaineers are coming off a 20-win season, and head coach Jill Kramer said her team has been se-

riously preparing for this season.

“We are much more at-tentive to how we are play-ing the game than anything else,” Kramer said.

“We want to communi-cate at a very high level, al-ways stick together and have each other’s backs and com-pete at crunch time. This team has worked very hard throughout the preseason and is still focused on get-ting better everyday.”

BYU finished the 2013 season with an overall re-cord of 24-7, and a confer-ence record of 15-3. Most of its roster returned with five seniors and three juniors.

Kramer said she is bring-

ing the team in with the same mentality as she would any other.

“We always talk about how every year is a new year, every season we get a new team. The same goes for BYU,” she said. “BYU is a good team and is coached very well. They returned all but two starters, who are re-placed by players who are veterans in their program.”

BYU has some physi-cal players on its team, ac-cording to Kramer. One was drafted into the WNBA this year, and a couple received All-American honors last season.

“Regardless of what our opponent brings to the ta-ble, we stay focused on the

way we play the game and the way we want to rep-resent WVU Volleyball,” Kramer said.

“I think every team is ex-cited to play the first match of the year. It doesn’t mat-ter if you are playing the No. 10 team or No. 200, just get out there and compete with your team and start the jour-ney of a new season.”

The first game tonight will also be the first chance for fans to see who is a part of the Mountaineer start-ing lineup. Senior defensive specialist Anna Panagiota-kopoulos said she and her teammates are ready for the weekend’s games.

“Facing three good teams in two days is going to be

tough, but it will be a great start to the season,” she said.

“Matching up with the No. 9 team in the country to open our season is awe-some and gives us a chance to showcase our team’s tal-ent. I think a challenge will be that it’s the first time this specific group of 15 girls are all competing together.”

Kramer said IUPUI and Toledo would also be good opponents for the team to take on.

“We have both Toledo and IUPUI on Saturday, who are also both very well coached,” she said. “Toledo is a regional opponent, so we really like having them on our schedule. We opened at their place last year, so we

are excited to welcome them to Morgantown this year.”

The IUPUI Jaguars fin-ished with a record of 19-14 and a conference record of 11-3 in 2013.

“IUPUI had a great year last season. They won their conference tournament and went to the NCAA tourna-ment,” Kramer said. “They return some key pieces to their lineup, are a great ball control team and run a pretty dynamic offense.”

The Gold & Blue Player’s Challenge starts tonight at 7 at the Coliseum against BYU and continues tomorrow at 2 p.m. against Toledo and 7 p.m. against IUPUI.

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WVU eyes success in 2014by ethan rohrbaUGh


The No. 20 West Virginia University cross country team will begin its 2014 sea-son today at the Lehigh In-vitational in Bethlehem, Pa.

This will be the seventh straight year the Mountain-eers have made the pre-season rankings and their highest since 2010.

“I would say this team has the ability to return to the national finals,” said head coach Sean Cleary.

In 2013, Cleary coached West Virginia to the pro-gram’s sixth NCAA champi-onship in seven years.

WVU qualified for nation-als by capturing a fourth-place finish at the 2013 NCAA Mid-Atlantic Re-gion meet and went on to take 24th-place at the 2013 NCAA championships in Terre Haute, Ind.

This year’s group, which is returning three All-Re-gion runners, is slotted at No. 3 in the Mid-Atlantic Region preseason rankings. That finish would be good enough for another trip to the championship race.

“The key to this group is to embrace this challenge and do what is required to emerge collectively as a unit that is willing to sacrifice be-yond their individual ca-reers,” Cleary said. “All na-tional class teams do this, and I see no reason why we

won’t.”The Mountaineers will

start their season on the very same course at Lehigh Uni-versity that they began their season on a first a year ago.

Cleary said he always likes the trip to Lehigh be-cause “the course is not overly demanding yet suffi-ciently challenging over the second half.”

“This is a very young group,” Cleary said. “A group that needs to get experience on this course against this competition.”

That youth combined with the wealth of national

championship experience on the roster gives this team an ability that Cleary said hasn’t existed with previous squads.

“This group has the poten-tial to learn from each other in ways that past teams may not have had,” he said. “I ex-pect them to become inter-changeable and be mature enough to know their rolls within the system.”

WVU’s key returners in-clude All-Region runners junior Kelly Williams and sophomore Jillian Forsey. Two-time All-American se-nior Kaitlyn Gillespie, soph-

omore Amy Cashin and ju-nior Paige Szabat will also be returning, giving the Mountaineers a deep pool of Championship-class runners.

Of the new members, five come from West Virginia, along with senior Lydia Mar-tinelli, a Morgantown native.

“We have always tried to bring West Virginia ladies into the program,” Cleary said. “(I’m) very proud of this tradition.”

Redshirt freshman Mag-gie Drazba from St. Marys, W. Va., along with freshmen Millie Paladino and Brynn Harshbarger from Morgan-town, are among those ex-pected to have an imme-diate impact on an already loaded roster. The Mountain State trio held a couple of the state’s high school cross-country records before en-rolling at the University.

“This year’s crop certainly has the ability and determi-nation to go very far in this sport,” Cleary said. “It is my belief that some of these young ladies will eventually become among the most talked about distance run-ners in program history.”

Today’s 6k race in Beth-lehem is slated to begin at 5:30 p.m. and puts WVU up against host school Lehigh, as well as Delaware, De-Sales, LIU-Brooklyn, Mora-vian, Muhlenberg, Scranton andUrsinus.

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Avila’s 2-out hit in 9th lifts Tigers over YankeesDETROIT (AP) — Alex

Avila hit an RBI single off the wall in right field with two out in the bottom of the ninth, giving the De-troit Tigers a 3-2 victory over the New York Yan-kees on Thursday.

A day after David Price gave up nine straight hits, the Tigers sent Kyle Lob-stein to the mound for his first major league start. The rookie performed well, allowing one earned run in six innings.

Then Detroit’s bullpen held off New York until the Tigers scored in the ninth off Shawn Kelley (2-

5). Victor Martinez led off with a double through a shifted infield, then Kelley walked J.D. Martinez be-fore striking out Nick Cas-tellanos and pinch-hitter Torii Hunter.

Avila followed with a drive to right that Ichiro Suzuki couldn’t quite get to. Kelley flung his glove to the ground as soon as Avila connected.

Phil Coke (2-2) got one out for the win.

With two outs in the top of the ninth, Brian Mc-Cann hit a long foul ball to right field that nearly ended up being a three-run homer. Coke recov-ered to strike him out.

Hiroki Kuroda allowed two runs and four hits in seven innings for New York, but he’s still without a victory over the Tigers in his career. He’s beaten baseball’s other 29 teams.

Lobstein allowed four hits and a walk. He did not strike out a batter.

Avila opened the scor-ing in the second with a sacrifice fly, then Jacoby Ellsbury tied it in the third with an RBI single.

McCann’s RBI ground-out in the fourth put New York ahead, and Rajai Da-vis tied it with a run-scor-ing single in the fifth.

TRAINER’S ROOMYankees: RHP Masahiro

Tanaka was on the field before the game throwing 49 pitches in a simulated game. Manager Joe Girardi said Tanaka was able to use all his pitches. The Japa-nese star hasn’t pitched since July 8 because of a partial tear of the ulnar collateral ligament.

Tigers: RHP Joakim So-ria (left oblique strain) threw off flat ground Tues-day and Wednesday and

felt no pain. He is sched-uled to throw again Fri-day at a longer distance. ... RHP Luke Putkonen was scheduled to begin an injury rehabilitation assignment with Class A West Michigan on Thurs-day night. He has been sidelined since April 19 because of right elbow inflammation.

UP NEXTYankees: Chris Capuano

(1-3) takes the mound Fri-day night in the opener of a three-game series at To-ronto. Mark Buehrle (11-8) starts for the Blue Jays – he is 1-12 lifetime against the Yankees, and has lost his last 10 decisions.

Tigers: Detroit begins a three-day, four-game set in Chicago against the White Sox. Justin Ver-lander (11-11) pitches Fri-day against Scott Carroll (5-8).

ApAlex Avila celebrates with teammate J.D. Martinez Thursday.

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Hamilton, Reds swipe 6 bases, steal win from Chicago Cubs

ApSecond baseman Brandon Phillips follows through on a swing Thursday.

CINCINNATI (AP) — Billy Hamilton stole his 51st base and the Cincinnati Reds swiped six in all, beating the Chicago Cubs 7-2 Thursday.

Zack Cozart and Todd Frazier each stole twice, and Kristopher Negron added one more.

The Reds stole six times in the first four innings, us-ing six hits and four walks to build a 6-0 lead against Jake Arrieta (7-5).

Cincinnati stole three in a three-run second in-ning and two in a three-run fourth.

Dylan Axelrod (1-0) pitched five scoreless in-nings of two-hit ball and struck out eight.

Cubs rookie Jorge Soler

doubled and singled in his second major league game and drove in a run. He hom-ered and singled in his de-but on Wednesday.

Hamilton set the tone right away. He drew a lead-off walk in the first and stole second on the next pitch.

Hamilton went 2 for 2 with a double and walked twice. Dee Gordon of the Dodgers began the day leading the majors with 58 steals.

Negron and Cozart each stole and scored in the sec-ond. Cozart and Frazier both stole and scored in the fourth.

Cozart had three hits, including a double, and scored three times.

Reds relievers Pedro Vil-lareal and Logan Ondrusek combined for three perfect innings. The Cubs scored two runs off Jumbo Diaz in the ninth.

TRAINER’S ROOMCubs: 1B Anthony Rizzo

was out of the lineup for the second straight day with tightness in his lower back. Manager Rick Rente-ria hopes to have him back for the upcoming series in St. Louis.

Reds: RHP Homer Bailey and 1B Joey Votto are pro-gressing at a slow rate. The Reds plan to call up seven to nine players on Monday when rosters expand to 40, according to manager Bryan Price.

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