October 31, 2018,  Basketball  No comments

Thundering Herd Defeat the Pioneers

By Michael Morgan

The Marshall University men’s basketball team defeated the Glenville State Pioneers 113-108 in an exhibition game in the Cam Henderson Center on Sunday.

The Thundering Herd’s leading scorer was senior C.J. Burks, scoring 25 points on 10-for-13 shooting. Sophomores Darius George and Jarrod West scored 19 and 16 points respectively, and senior Jon Elmore had 16 points, nine assists, and eight rebounds.

Glenville State featured new head coach Justin Caldwell and assistant coach Ot Elmore, the older brother of Herd senior Jon Elmore, and a member of the Herd’s NCAA tournament and Conference USA champion team last season...

October 24, 2018,  Basketball  No comments

2018 Herd Madness

By Michael Morgan

Herd Madness took place on Friday in the Cam Henderson Center on the Marshall University campus and featured a dunk contest, t-shirt giveaways, and a three-point shooting contest.

Taevion Kinsey, the freshman Herd basketball player from Columbus, Ohio, partook in the dunk contest during Herd Madness and was regarded as the crowd favorite for the event based on surveying some of the spectators. Kinsey took the microphone before performing and told the roughly 4,000 people to, “pull out your cameras.”

The contest featured Kinsey, freshman Cam Brooks-Harris, sophomore Mikel Beyers, redshirt freshman Iran Bennett, and senior Rondale Watson.

Kinsey faced Beyers in the final matchup...

October 17, 2018,  Basketball  No comments

Herd Madness Storms the Cam Henderson Center

By Michael Morgan

Herd Madness, formerly known as Rock the Rec is being held Friday in the Cam Henderson Center.

This event is free and provides spectators a first look at the men’s and women’s basketball teams as well as multiple giveaways according to Herd Zone.

The event used to be later in the evening and called Rock the Rec, due to it taking place in the Marshall Recreational Center. “We changed the event to Herd Madness just to give it a little shot in the arm,” said Marshall Associate Athletic Director Aaron Goebbel. “With it being homecoming we thought a move to Friday night would encourage better attendance from the general public, especially moving it to earlier in the evening,” Goebbel said.

The doors open at 6:00 p.m...

October 11, 2018,  Uncategorized  No comments

The World in 1968

By Michael Morgan

A culmination of professors met in the Shawkey Room at Marshall University on Wednesday to talk about movies, reporters, women, and the emergence of new journalism in the year 1968.

Professor Burnis Morris, co-director of the symposium, began by providing an overview to the year and some of the most prolific events in chronological order before introducing the first speaker. Included in these events, was the raising of the fists by Olympians Tommy Smith and John Carlos in the Olympics to stand up for black rights.

Morris was followed by professor Jennifer Sias, who had done extensive research on the reporter, Studs Terkel and his relationship with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr...

October 8, 2018,  Football  No comments

Alex Thomson the Answer for the Herd?

By Michael Morgan

The Marshall Thundering Herd football team were quarterbacked by junior-college transfer, Alex Thomson in the 34-24 loss to Middle Tennessee University on Saturday.

Thomson, starting for the injured Isaiah Green, completed 17 of 33 passes for 173 yards and two touchdowns, accompanied by two turnovers. This was Thomson’s first game action in 13 months, where he last played healthy at Wagner University in New York.

Thomson had been previously regarded as a “No question” NFL quarterback by NFL hall of famer Phil Simms, who was unreachable over the weekend in efforts to get his opinion on Thomson’s Marshall debut.

The first career touchdown pass in a Herd uniform came late in the second quarter, an 11-yard strike to tight end Arma...