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Who says politics and football don't mix?

By Ivan Maisel
ESPN.com

Wednesday, May 25, 2005

Gov. Joe Manchin III of West Virginia has won the coveted ESPN.com college football politician of the year, an award that dates all the way back to the beginning of this sentence. Manchin said during his campaign last year that he thought West Virginia and Marshall should meet on the football field. Then he did something about it. And what he did has athletics directors across the country smiling in acknowledgment of an ingenious solution. West Virginia AD Ed Pastilong and Marshall AD Bob Marc ...

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