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Mascot Monday: The Mountaineer

Another week of Mascot Monday and I’m getting into the groove of going over mascots from schools that have been in the news recently.  It’s admittedly hard to come up with wacky mascots when you’ve been eyeballing costumed characters for as long as I have.  So this week’s big news is the buyout of West Viriginia’s Bill Stewart so coach in waiting Dana Holgorsen can take over.  If you remember, Holgorsen was in trouble for some casino incident but it was later found out that Stewart or a Stewart supporter started a smear campaign against him.  This week we’ll let the story of The Mountaineer teach us something about competitive respect.

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