MORGANTOWN — Infielder JJ Wetherholt became the highest-ever draftee by Major League Baseball, when the St. Louis Cardinals selected him seventh overall in the first round of the 2024 draft on Sunday. Wetherholt just completed his junior year of eligibility at West Virginia University, ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN — Even in its infancy, baseball’s All-Star game was called the “Midsummer Classic” and had its beginning in 1933 with the appropriate names like Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx and Al Simmons headlining the American League roster. The National League could not match ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN — Thirty-five-year-old, one-time West Virginia University guard Joe Mazzulla just became the youngest head coach to win the NBA championship since Bill Russell. Mazzulla and the Boston Celtics buzzed through this season’s league playoffs with a 16-3 record and recently ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN — The Olympic Games are about to begin in Paris. The French cosmopolitan city has hosted previous Olympics in both 1900 and 1924. In 1900, the Olympic Games were held simultaneously with the World’s Fair. This year, in late July, about 11,000 athletes will descend on Paris ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN — The Major League Baseball seasons of former West Virginia University pitchers John Means and Alek Manoah are over. Means has already undergone surgery on his pitching arm and was attempting another comeback, when he was struck by further injury just weeks ago. The ...
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. — Narrow losses are the worst kind for coaches and players alike. “What might have been.” “What could have happened.” “Just one play or one hit and we’d be moving on to a possible berth in the College World Series.” After losing to a three-run, last-inning ...
SARATOGA, N.Y. — There is really nothing whimsical about thoroughbred racing’s Belmont Stakes. Usually held at Belmont Park amid the hustle, bustle and frowned faces of those fans losing their money on earlier races on the long racing card, this year’s Belmont Stakes has been moved ...
BALTIMORE, Md. — John Means was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth. He’s had to scratch and use infinite patience to get back again to the Baltimore Orioles. Now 31, Means came from Olathe, Kan. to Morgantown where he pitched for WVU in the 2013 and 2014 college seasons. After ...
PITTSBURGH, Pa. — What a fickle world is often found in Major League Baseball. The players are given advice on a daily basis. “Don’t get too high.” “Don’t get too low.” Sometimes a player’s mood can change from at-bat to at-bat. When a pitch is made in baseball, a rapid-fire ...
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Mention the Kentucky Derby, and thoroughbreds will immediately come to mind. The glistening reddish coat of maybe the greatest athlete of all time — Secretariat — leaps for the finish line in 1:59.40 for the 1 1/4 mile distance at Churchill Downs near the banks of the ...
