There is a familiar saying that carries much weight around the West Virginia University football program.
“If at first you don’t succeed …”
You know it, seen in action over and over. How many athletes have failed at first, only to be granted a second chance and made the most of it.
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Chuck Howley greatest all-around WVU athlete
Chuck Howley’s greatest fame came in football at West Virginia University and then with the NFL’s Dallas Cowboys.
However, making the Wheeling native even more distinguished is the fact he is the only five-sport letterman in WVU athletic history. Besides football, he competed in track and field, wrestling, gymnastics and swimming (as a diver).
Howley lettered in those sports way back there in 1955-56-57. He played football as a two-way guard and center on the gridiron.
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Jarrod West treasures time with his family
It came along too late to do me any good, but today I want to offer a very warm thank you to Jarrod West, the one-time West Virginia University basketball hero.
Normally, when West is given thanks it is for the final second prayer of a shot that he hit in the second round of the 1998 NCAA Tournament that lifted the Mountaineers past Cincinnati and Kenyon Martin, a team coached by Bob Huggins that was revisited recently by ROOT Sports.
But, as dramatic and heroic as that moment was in WVU history, it was something West put on Facebook a week back that hit home and needs to be spread far further than it reached with just his followers.
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