We are a Wrestling School, Somber Endings and Diamond Road Warriors – This...
Wrestling began their dual meet season with the Mountaineer Duals this past Saturday in Varsity Gym. The first dual for the Apps came against Belmont-Abbey and even with some youth in the lineup, the...
View Article[Revamp from 2014] Duck, Duck, BANG! The Tale Of The Monroe Hawks Of War
T-Note: This is a revamp of a blog from 2014 due to the coaching change. Last home game of the season. Seems like we just started this, huh? The weather will be turning down...
View ArticleThe One Where Cox Fulfilled His Destiny – App State Offensively Pummels...
On September 10th, 2013 after the shocking loss to NC A&T, I wrote this one positive note after paragraphs of anger. ..Marcus Cox is looking like the running back of the future. Not that...
View ArticleThe Road Beckons For Squeaky Shoes – App Basketball Tips Off
It’s the time of the year where basketball is starting and football is still going on, so there’s a lot going on. Naturally, this led to the first 10 days of the season happening...
View ArticleA Look at the Land of the Enchantment With Raptor Attacks, Nuclear Bombs and...
Rivalry Week, a time where the biggest and best college football games are played. You have The Game, the Iron Bowl, the Egg Bowl, Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate, the Apple Cup, the Civil War, several...
View ArticleThank You Louisiana Replay Official – Becoming Sun Belt Champs In The Desert
The play that helped App State become, at worst co-champs of the Sun Belt in 2016 didn’t occur in an App State game. It occurred further east in Lafayette, Louisiana, before the Mountaineers even...
View ArticleThe Glass Ceiling Of Winning – This Week In App Hoops
I have a theory. It might not be true, but it’s worth putting out there. If you lose for a long time, eventually, when you have the players, coaching and attitude to win, it...
View ArticleThe Definitive App State “Where Are We Going Bowling” Guide
Now that the season is complete, we have to wait for the final week of Sun Belt games before finding out where App State will go bowling this off-season. And to be honest, I’m...
View ArticleHow Did App State Get Picked By The Camellia Bowl Again?
On Sunday, after thinking that App State was going to the Cure Bowl in Orlando because ESPN, SBNation, Jim’s Brother-In-Law and everyone else thought so, the Mountaineers found out that wasn’t the...
View ArticlePain – This Past Week In App Hoops
A bad loss either can propel you to write forever or not want to write at all. Last Saturday had the latter effect. I don’t want to write about Saturday’s home loss to Western...
View ArticleThe Start of the End
Christmas is coming soon. It’s just starting to feel like the season with Fraser firs all around, lights decorating houses and the unmistakable cold in the air. Tis the season to be thankful and...
View ArticleCamellia Week News and Notes Including That Other Queen City
It’s bowl week. It doesn’t have the new bowl game smell like last year, but it’s still an exciting time for App State fans. Winning the program’s first two bowl games ever would be...
View ArticleHe Missed It? He Missed It! App State Wins Back-To-Back Camellia Bowls
This was a really good football game. Two 9-3 teams playing turnover-free football for a full four quarters. On the line was the 2016 Camellia Bowl Championship, conference bragging rights and going...
View Article2016 App State Football In Star Wars GIFs
As another football season wraps up, we sit back and ponder for a brief moment on this 10-3 campaign. So close to a 12-1 record, needing a replay official to become conference champions, hosting...
View ArticleThe Final App Hoops Update – Neers Finish Up Non-Conference
After the Western debacle, I really didn’t want to do another basketball blog before I called it quits after this weekend. All the excitement of hope for squeaky shoes season was zapped from my...
View ArticleRespect The Mat – Wrestling Apps Continues Being Awesome
Right now, App State Wrestling is the best winter sports program on the mountain. The wrestling has grown in the last 2-3 years to a higher level where top 25 is almost a second...
View Article25 Final Requests for a hAPPy Christmas, New Year and Beyond
For the fifth and final time, I’m hoping I did good this year and thus, am asking Santa to help me out. I want good things for App State beyond the end of my...
View ArticleHow Did App State Football Get Really, Really, Ridiculously Good?
App State is 27-5 in their last 32 games and won at least 10 games in the last two seasons. Those 27 wins have come by an average of just over 21 points per...
View ArticleThe Final Blog
As of Monday, December 12th, I began my new career as a full-time writer for the Mountain Times, Watauga Democrat and Avery Journal. To give my all for my new career, I decided it...
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