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Movie and bowl game tops the list The top stories of 2006, as voted on by the Charleston Daily Mail sports staff: 1 (Tie) West Virginia stuns Georgia in the Sugar Bowl, capping an 11-1 season. 1 (Tie) Warner Bros. releases We Are Marshall the story of Marshalls football recovery from the tragic 1970 plane crash. 3The Coal Bowl between rivals Marshall and WVU finally arrives amid fanfare and an overflow crowd. 4National prep basketball phenom O.J. Mayo transfers to Huntington High School to join an already star-studded lineup. 5WVU Coach Rich Rodriguez flirts with vacant Alabama job, then breaks the bank with big-bucks deal to stay at WVU. 6A WVU spy watches part of Marshalls spring football practice before being confronted by Herd coaches. 7John Beilein takes his senior-laden Mountaineer basketball team to the Sweet 16. 8 (Tie) Longtime area prep football coach Dick Whitman calls it quits at Riverside High School. 8 (Tie) WVU fails to win Big East football title, but earns bowl bid for a school-record fifth straight season. 10Matewan High School running back Paul McCoy attracts national attention with his astronomical rushing stats.
The next five ... These stories merited serious consideration for the top 10 stories of the year in balloting by the Daily Mail sports staff: 11Marshall, despite another bad season, beats WVU in mens basketball for the second straight year at the Charleston Civic Center. 12New coach Earl Monroe builds football success in his West Virginia State debut. 13Charleston Catholic boys, Winfield girls win state high school basketball titles, while South Charleston captures state baseball championship under first-year coach. 14Marshall, under second-year Coach Mark Snyder, has second straight losing season in football. 15Former West Virginia prep Player of the Year, Adam Williams, transfers from the University of Kentucky to Marshall, where he must sit out for a year.See the full content of this document
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Top 10 Sports Stories of 2006
DAILY MAIL SPORTSWRITER
Lights, camera, action. That sums up, as well as anything, the 2006 sports year in West Virginia.Huntington was the setting for a major motion picture and the destination for perhaps the country's best high school basketball player.In Morgantown, there was plenty of action on and off Mountaineer Field, while the WVU Coliseum produced more drama from yet another Sweet 16 team.In the coal fields, a prep tailback captured the nation's attention by running for more than 600 yards ... in one game, while one of the state's most-respected and well-liked high school coaches called it quits.And, of course, who can forget "Spygate?"Those all help make u...See the full content of this document
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