Written by Aaron-Michael Fox. For those of you who don’t follow college men’s soccer that closely, the Mountain State is home to two great programs led by two great coaches with a shared coaching tree in West Virginia. The Marshall Thundering Herd Head Coach is Chris...

Written by Aaron-Michael Fox. Marshall University Athletics announced today that the new baseball field in Highlawn will be named “Jack Cook Field,” as approved by the University’s Board of Governors. Jack Cook (1926-2021), a former player and coach at Marshall, holds...

Marshall Thundering Herd football stand-out safety Malik Gant has passed away at the age of 25, the Gant Family has announced. Gant’s body was found in Miami, Florida, on May 25, 2023, only four days prior to his 26th birthday. Gant was a fan favorite for the Green...

In celebration of the fact that "We Are" less than 100 days away from the 2023 Thundering Herd football season, Marshall Athletics has announced a schedule of home game themes for the 2023 season – all fittingly themed "We Are." This is part of a season-long...

Written by Aaron-Michael Fox. Photos by Joshua Murdock. Marshall men's basketball opened it's first season in the Sun Belt Conference with a 79-53 win over their historic rivals: the Appalachian State Mountaineers in front of a raucous crowd at Cam Henderson Center....

Marshall men's basketball defeated the Toledo Rockets 100-85 Saturday at the Cam Henderson Center. With the win, the Thundering Herd broke a five-game losing streak to the Rockets and improves to 10-2 on the season. Marshall next hosts in-state foe Glenville State on...

Written by Aaron-Michael Fox. Marshall Men’s Basketball dropped the Ohio Bobcats 83-69 Saturday night in front of a raucous “white-out” crowd at Cam Henderson Center. The Thundering Herd went out to an early lead and never looked back holding a lead for the entire...

Written by Aaron-Michael Fox. Photos by Joshua Murdock. Marshall Men’s Basketball took down the Akron Zips 68-57 Wednesday night on the back of a very strong defense for their sixth-straight win this season. The Herd improves to an all-time record of 14-16 against...

Written by Aaron-Michael Fox. Photos by Joshua Murdock. Marshall Men’s Basketball was firing on all cylinders Saturday night in front of a raucous crowd at Cam Henderson Center as they took down the Morehead State Eagles 83-59. The Eagles got within 1 point of tying...

Written by Aaron-Michael Fox. Photos by Joshua Murdock. It was a slobber-knocker Saturday afternoon at Joan C. Edwards Stadium as the Marshall Thundering Herd defeated the Georgia State Panthers 28-23 on Senior Night. Georgia State played like they had nothing to lose...

The Marshall Thundering Herd men's basketball team defeated the Chicago State Cougars 80-72 Monday night at Cam Henderson Center. The Herd improves to 4-1 on the season. Photos by Joshua Murdock below. [gallery link="file"...

Written by Aaron-Michael Fox. The “Old Mountain Feud” between Marshall and Appalachian State was renewed as a Sun Belt Conference rivalry Saturday night at Joan C. Edwards Stadium. It was the 25th all-time meeting between the two teams with the Thundering Herd...

Written by Aaron-Michael Fox. No. 5 Marshall men’s soccer defeated the James Madison Dukes 2-0 Tuesday night at Veterans Memorial Soccer Complex before a raucous crowd of 1,675 in attendance. Despite the score, it was a back-and-forth slugfest that did not lack for...

Written by Aaron-Michael Fox. No. 6 Marshall men’s soccer lit up the goal in a 6-1 rout of Sun Belt Conference foe Georgia Southern Sunday night at Veterans Memorial Soccer Complex. It was an unseasonably warm Sunday for Senior Night in Huntington as Marshall honored...

Written by Aaron-Michael Fox. It was an aggressive and physical affair on a chilly night at Veterans Memorial Soccer Stadium as the No. 6 Marshall Thundering Herd defeated Robert Morris 3-1. Joao Souza opened the scoring with a flick by the keeper in the 37th minute...

Written by Aaron-Michael Fox It was a cold and ugly day for football at Joan C. Edwards with temperatures in the 50s and rain falling the entire afternoon. The intimate crowd at “The Joan” was treated to a defensive showdown as the Marshall Thundering Herd defeated...

Written by Aaron-Michael Fox. It looked like the 2022 installment of the Mountain State Derby would end in another draw on Saturday night before Milo Yosef for Marshall notched the game-winning goal in the 85th minute to take down the West Virginia Mountaineers 1-0. A...

Written by Justin Prince. As my father and I headed down the road passing corn field after corn field on the way from West Virginia to South Bend, Indiana, on Friday ahead of Marshall's Saturday football game, we talked about the history of the University of Notre...

Written by Aaron-Michael Fox. Marshall head football coach Charles Huff will not have much to criticize about his team after their season opener Saturday against Norfolk State. It was total domination from the start of the game on for Huff’s Herd as they steamrolled...

Written by Aaron-Michael Fox. No. 11 Marshall men’s soccer went toe-to-toe in a heavyweight fight with No. 2 Pittsburgh Friday night in front of a massive crowd of 1,879 fans at Veterans Memorial Soccer Complex and came out victorious 2-1. This was the highest-ranked...

Written by Aaron-Michael Fox. Kindred Communications boss Mike Kirtner announced on his Facebook page Monday that Marshall University basketball star Taevion Kinsey will be interning with the local media outlet this semester. “As one of the best basketball players in...

Written by Justin Prince. The college football season officially started when a handful of teams hit the gridiron this past weekend in week “zero.” It was a good appetizer for fans who have been craving college football since the Georgia Bulldogs claimed the national...

Written by Aaron-Michael Fox. Herd fans were treated to a show Thursday night as No. 14 Marshall men’s soccer opened their 2022 campaign with a 5-0 victory over the Virginia Commonwealth Rams at Veterans Memorial Soccer Complex in Huntington. It was total domination...

Written by Aaron-Michael Fox. Marshall fans who have visited HerdZone.com recently to purchase football game tickets have no doubt noticed seating in the upper endzone section of Joan C. Edwards Stadium has been blacked out for this season. It seems like the upper...

Written by Aaron-Michael Fox. According to AthlonSports.com, a big part of college football is the pageantry, and a big part of the pageantry is the uniforms. School colors run deep, often representing the cities, states, and communities these teams represent. So...

Written by Aaron-Michael Fox. Marshall University men’s soccer will kick off the 2022 season with a home match at Veterans Memorial Soccer Complex against Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) on Thursday, August 25 at 7:15 p.m. The game will be broadcast live on...

Written by Aaron-Michael Fox. For the second time in three years, the floor at Marshall's Cam Henderson Center is getting redone ahead of the school's first season in the Sun Belt Conference. The current floor at "the Cam" was installed in the summer of 2019 to much...

Written by Aaron-Michael Fox. Marshall Thundering Herd football fans got their first look at the new turf at Joan C. Edwards Stadium Saturday during the 2022 Fan Day. Hundreds of fans made their way out into the sun to check out the field after getting their official...

Marshall University Athletics has announced that Thundering Herd Football Fan Day will be on August 20 at Joan C. Edwards Stadium from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. At this event, fans will be able to pick up a free limited edition 2022 schedule poster and Marshall football...

In a break from recent tradition, Marshall Thundering Herd football will not be hosting a "blackout" on the Memorial Game in the 2022 season. Instead, the blackout this year will be on October 12 vs the Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns. The practice of wearing black uniforms...

Written by Aaron-Michael Fox.  The postseason run for the 2020 Conference USA Champions has come to a close with the Marshall Thundering Herd defeating the #2 Indiana Hoosiers 1-0 in overtime in Cary, North Carolina. The 2020 fall season of college men's soccer was a...

Written by Justin Prince. Photo by Joshua Murdock.  Marshall University football coach John "Doc" Holliday will no longer man the sidelines in Huntington, West Virginia. In a post on his Twitter account Monday morning, Holliday announced that the school’s President...

The Marshall Thundering Herd men's basketball team (1-0) opened regular season play with a 67-60 win Thursday night against the Colonials of Robert Morris University in front of a rowdy crowd at the Cam Henderson Center. The boys in kelly green seemed to be working...

The Marshall University Thundering Herd football squad clinched a nail biter over their arch rivals from Western Kentucky in the "MoonShine Throwdown" on a last second 53-yard field goal from Justin Rohrwasser to win 26-23 on Saturday at Joan C. Edwards Stadium in...

The Marshall University Thundering Herd football squad got absolutely shellacked by the Cincinnati Bearcats 52-14 Saturday night before a packed house of 32,192 at Joan C. Edwards Stadium. That number is good enough for 13th highest attendance all-time edging out the...

The Marshall University Thundering Herd football squad had to dig in for a hard-fought battle to win 33-31 over the Ohio Bobcats Saturday night at Joan C. Edwards Stadium. It was the 60th meeting between the two programs since they first played each other in 1905....

The Marshall University Thundering Herd football squad dominated the Keydets of Virginia Military Institute 56-17 Saturday in the season opener for both teams at Joan C. Edwards Stadium in Huntington. Sophomore quarterback Isaiah Green threw a career-high 4 touchdown...

With the Conference USA Tournament coming up this week and the Thundering Herd men’s basketball team looking to repeat as conference champions and head back to the NCAA Tournament for the second time in two years and the third time in 32 years, we at Downtown...

Despite trailing Florida Atlantic 19-2 early in the game, the Thundering Herd men's basketball team recalibrated and came back win 76-61 on Senior Night in front of a packed house at the Cam Henderson Center on Saturday. Emotions were running high already going into...

In a back-and-forth contest that will surely be the talk of college basketball for a while to come, the Thundering Herd fell in overtime to the Texas-San Antonio Roadrunners before a packed house of green-clad fanatics at the Cam Henderson Center Saturday night. The...

The Marshall Thundering Herd men's basketball team put on a stellar performance against the Texas-El Paso Miners Thursday night at the Cam Henderson Center on the back of a 44-point effort by Jon Elmore. "I just keep telling him 'You're Jonny Buckets. Just play like...

The Marshall Thundering Herd men's basketball team was firing on all cylinders on Saturday night as they flexed their muscles late to clinch a 105-97 win over the Florida International Golden Panthers in front of an announced attendance of 7,330 at the Cam Henderson...

The Marshall Thundering Herd men's basketball team's defense dominated FAU 96-84 on Thursday night at the Cam Henderson Center with 21 claimed turnovers, 15 of which were recorded as steals. The game was in question a couple times early on, with 10 lead changes in a...

Written by Aaron-Michael Fox. I like everything about college football. I love the pageantry and the spectacle, the band, the crowd, the united communal spirit where we all come together and root for our team. I love it all. But I'm also a visual person and a clothes...

The Marshall Thundering Herd men's basketball team came back from an 11-point half-time deficit to defeat their conference rivals from Western Kentucky 70-69 on Saturday night before a near-capacity crowd at the Cam Henderson Center. The game came down to the last...

The Marshall Thundering Herd men's basketball team dominated the 100th all-time meeting with the Morehead State Eagles 76-64 on Monday night before a packed house at the Cam Henderson Center. "The first half we played well," fifth-year head coach Dan D'Antoni said....

After trailing Toledo by as many as 21 points in the second half, the Thundering Herd men's basketball team mounted a roaring comeback to momentarily take the lead before a controversial no-call at the end of regulation forced the game into overtime. A fierce...

The Marshall Thundering Herd men's basketball team bounced back from a devastating loss to Maryland and notched their fifth win of the season before another packed house at the Cam Henderson Center on Wednesday (the team has been averaging a home crowd size of 6,890...

Photo: Joshua Murdock/Downtown Huntington The Marshall men's basketball team moved to 4-0 on the season after blowing out North Carolina A&T 95-71 on Monday night in front of another packed house at the Cam Henderson Center (even with the students gone for...

The Thundering Herd football team sent its seniors off in style with a 23-0 drumming of the Texas-San Antonio Roadrunners Saturday at the Joan C. Edwards Stadium. Now with a record of 7-3 (5-2), this was Marshall's last home football game of the 2018 season. The Herd...

The Marshall men's basketball team tied a school record of 19 made 3-pointers as the Thundering Herd steamrolled Mount St. Mary's 98-75 in front of another packed house at the Cam Henderson Center. This is the fourth time the Herd has achieved such a mark with three...

The Marshall Thundering Herd men's basketball team notched their second win of the season in as many games before a near-capacity crowd at the Cam Henderson Center on Saturday. Prior to the game, Marshall's first home contest of the season, two new banners where...

The Marshall Thundering Herd scored 17 unanswered points in the second half to win against the Charlotte 49ers on the designated "memorial game," an annual remembrance of the plane crash that decimated the Huntington community and nearly wiped out the MU football...

Despite missing a few starters, including quarterback Isaiah Green and running back Keion Davis, the Thundering Herd looked competitive Friday night against Middle Tennessee State on Military Appreciation Night...at first. Marshall had a lot to smile about in front of...

It felt like "deja vu all over again" for Marshall fans on Saturday night as, for the second season in a row, the Thundering Herd football team fell to the North Carolina State Wolfpack by a score of 37-20; this time before a packed house at Joan C. Edwards Stadium on...

The Marshall Thundering Herd defeated their historic rivals from Eastern Kentucky 32-16 on Hall of Fame Night before a crowd of 24,304 at Joan C. Edwards Stadium in Huntington, West Virginia. Photos by Joshua Murdock. [gallery link="file"...

Written by Justin Prince.  Up three with 36.2 seconds to go in an NCAA Tournament game against fourth seeded Wichita State, the Thundering Herd had the ball under its own basket and Jon Elmore found Ajdin Penava for a huge slam dunk for an 80-75 lead. Wichita State...

Written by Justin Prince.  The Marshall men’s basketball team wrapped up its regular season on Saturday with its first win over a ranked opponent since the Herd defeated West Virginia in 2011 and Marshall’s first win on the road versus a ranked team since downing...

Written by Justin Prince.  This time was supposed to be different. The Marshall men’s basketball team was at home on the court of the Cam Henderson Center, the nation’s leading shot blocker Adjin Penava was in the lineup. The outcome however,...

Written by Aaron-Michael Fox. The Thundering Herd men’s basketball team defeated the North Texas Mean Green 74-72 on Saturday night, improving its record to 19-8 overall and 10-4 in Conference USA. The Herd is now in sole possession of 4th place in the Conference USA...

Written by Justin Prince.  The Thundering Herd men’s basketball team defeated the Rice Owls 93-80 on Thursday night improving its record to 18-8 overall and 9-4 in Conference USA. The 93 points were the most scored by Marshall since the team scored 91 in a win over...

Written by Justin Prince.  When you win a Super Bowl, there is a pretty good chance that other teams are going to come calling for coaches on your staff to inject some of that championship mojo into their teams. The Philadelphia Eagles are no different. The recently...

Written by Justin Prince.  The Marshall Men’s basketball team won its third straight as it dispatched Florida Atlantic 79-68 inside the Cam Henderson Center on Saturday night. Jon Elmore was his usual self stuffing the stat sheet to the tune of 22 points,...

Written by Justin Prince.  Former Marshall University Football star and Rand, West Virginia, native Randy Moss has been selected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Moss, a 14-year NFL veteran most well known for stints with the Minnesota Vikings and the New England...

Written by Justin Prince.  The Marshall Men’s Basketball team completed its first of two trips to the state of Texas with a 74-65 win over the UTEP Miners. The victory in El-Paso came on the heels of an 81-77 loss to the UTSA Roadrunners where coach Dan D’antoni was...

Written by Justin Prince.  After nearly a month of searching, it appears that the Marshall University football program is getting close to making a decision on its new offensive coordinator. Around the water cooler, and on the message boards, several rumors have...

Written by Justin Prince.  Conversations between people usually have a theme, a central focus that the rest of the discussion takes place around. A conversation can be fluid, flowing it’s way around the main theme, but as a river’s water will always find its way back...