MORGANTOWN — Sentimentality ruled the pre-game and halftime celebrations of West Virginia University’s widely acknowledged best player of all time, Jerry West. Beating a nationally-ranked team for the fourth time this season brought on a “court rush” at the close of a 64-57 win over ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN — It is said, “You can never go home again.” That axiom may be true in so many instances, but that is not so in the case of former West Virginia University running back Steve Slaton. Slaton, who is already in the Athletic Hall of Fame at WVU, was recently announced by the ...
MORGANTOWN — They ran their way into the hearts of the state’s loyal fan base. Pressure defense. Fast breaking whenever possible. Team-oriented. Full of commitment to each other and emitting a feeling that those watching from the sidelines or leaning in to listen on the radio were ...
MORGANTOWN — Strip away the hyperbole and veneer handed out in a non-stop manner and West Virginia University’s basketball season has been pared down to two main variables. Firstly, can the player-short Mountaineers handle the continual pressure defenses they now see, and secondly, can the ...
MORGANTOWN—History did not repeat itself. West Virginia University began its Big 12 schedule in the heated and noise of the fabled Allen Fieldhouse at the University of Kansas. No Mountaineer team had ever won at Kansas. But now, the 2024-2025 team has won there! Even though it played ...
MORGANTOWN — Jerry West and Fred Schaus moved their basketball acumen and talents to the Los Angeles Lakers. It was only a short step to the head coach’s seat for George King, the first-ever full-time paid assistant coach at West Virginia University. King, a native of Charleston and ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN -- The soot-darkened yellow bricks of Sara Cree Hall didn't get their color because of the fast break and quick tempo basketball authored by the Shepherd University teams playing inside its heat-tempered confines. It just seemed that way. Bob Starkey was the coach and presided ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN -- Mike Gansey played his way into the WVU Athletic Hall of Fame. In his two seasons with Coach John Beilein, the robust Mountaineers reached prominence in the NCAA Tournament by getting as far along the event's trail as the Elite 8 (in 2004) and then the Sweet 16 (in ...
MORGANTOWN — Sideways glances were sent the way toward West Virginia University basketball. Last season had been only a saddened series of no-win circumstances for an interim coach who had little chance for even marginal success. Darian DeVries had been imported from the state of Iowa and ...
MORGANTOWN — Rich Rodriguez, the 61-year old from Grant Town, has brought his brand of football back to the state where he was born. Rodriguez probably wouldn’t consider himself a vagabond, but in the past 17 years he’s had himself called to Ann Arbor in Michigan, then to the southwest ...
