Upcoming package on Who Covers Marshall Sports

 by Ben Anderson


Coming Oct. 22.


This news package chronicles the work of many of the leading figures who cover sports at Marshall University. The content is brought to you by blogs created by students in JMC 303, a Sports Journalism class in Marshall’s School of Journalism and Mass Communications. 

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