MORGANTOWN — The Major League Baseball scouts will descend on Morgantown this late winter and early spring, with stop watches and radar guns in hand. They’ll be many in number and they’ll quickly end lowkey conversations with their fellow talent hunters, when West Virginia University ...
MORGANTOWN — The students were on the court, happily making noise and celebrating a raucous 91-85 win over high-riding Kansas. “Country Roads” echoed throughout the cavernous WVU Coliseum as the announced crowd of 12,208 busily told the unlikely tale of a Mountaineer team riddled by ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN — Some players can be remembered by their fans years and years after they scored in a career-ending flourish of points, rebounds or even championships. It’s the championship players and teams that can be recalled, without so much as a blink of the aging eye. Look back at ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN — Country roads — they were once tangled by steep curves, no shoulders, road kill and too much time to traverse them even to nearby hamlets or towns. But there were some fascinating athletes and personalities found along those narrow strips of sometimes rutted pavement. West ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN — Joe Mazzulla was a known commodity when playing basketball at West Virginia University. Known and valued for his knowledge and courage as much as for his on-court skills. He had come to Morgantown as a recruit of Coach John Beilein. His playing days ended as a cerebral ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN — The transfer portal now in place in college athletics has caused problems that have badly shaken that amateur sports world. It is misunderstood, often misused and left the college football bowl season full of misery and finger pointing. The lengthy bowl season was badly ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN — West Virginia’s football team was at its emotional best when it dismantled North Carolina, 30-10, in the Duke’s Mayo Bowl at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, N.C. Playing in a bowl game seemed to be a reward in the collective minds of the players who fashioned a ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN -- The NCAA has ruled that transfers Noah Farrakhan and RaeQuan Battle will be eligible to play the remainder of the season with the West Virginia basketball team. Farrakhan played in his first game of the season last Saturday when the Mountaineers lost to Massachusetts in the ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN — Neal Brown’s 8-4 season earned him another season of coaching at WVU. Mack Brown’s 8-4 season at North Carolina earned him the ho-hums of a partially dissatisfied fan base that was expecting more after a 6-0 start to the season. West Virginia’s Brown can almost feel the ...
