COMMENTARY
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Let me start by apologizing, because this is my fault.
All it took for West Virginia’s first football cancellation since 1954 was one week of me on the beat. Though I am new to the Mountaineers and the Mountain State, it turns out that I cannot escape my past.
In 2015, I was covering the season opener between McNeese State and LSU when a freak thunderstorm popped up over Tiger Stadium and decided to hang out for five hours without moving. The lightning was spectacular, but the result was LSU’s first canceled game since the flu outbreak at the end of World War I.