West Virginia players could have used some help
CINCINNATI – Buried in all the hype of Friday night’s Big East football showdown between West Virginia and host Cincinnati was a scoreboard film clip. The ESPN2 crew was in the Queen City. There were the parachutes beforehand. Fireworks. Late in the game, though, the clip played at Nippert Stadium. And it has to explain [...]
Big East comes up big on national landscape
Coach Brian Kelly of undefeated Cincinnati never doubted that Big East football would earn some respect on a national level. He believed it even when the major preseason polls included as many teams from Sun Belt and the MAC as the Big East — none. “We don’t have to pound our chests about our league,” [...]
WVU travels to take on Syracuse today
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — The setting, from a Big East point of view, could not be better unless they could find a way to play a football game in Madison Square Garden. If any arena in the conference symbolizes what the Big East is all about, it is the Carrier Dome, where at noon today Syracuse [...]
