SHEPHERDSTOWN -- After taking two games of a three-game series against visiting Oklahoma, West Virginia is riding along in first place in the Big 12 Conference. The Mountaineers have never won a regular season or tournament championship, during their membership in the Big 12. With their 13-5 ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN -- With outfielder JJ Wetherholt leading the way so far this college baseball season, West Virginia has an 18-6 overall record in games through March 27as it prepares to open its Big 12 Conference schedule this weekend at Kansas State. All the rest of the conference teams have ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN -- Media maven Jack Fleming tried to put his utmost attention on everything West Virginia University. Fleming was a graduate of WVU. When he commanded the radio airwaves for the broadcasts of both football and basketball, his unabashed rooting for the Mountaineers was as evident ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN -- He's never been a head coach in the NBA. He's never been a collegiate coach in the upper crust NCAA Division I ranks. But after being tabbed as the interim head coach of the NBA's Boston Celtics, former WVU player Joe Mazzulla has recently been elevated to the status of ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN — Put that one in the shade somewhere. In what has become a stretch of games where WVU wants to shower the NCAA men’s basketball tournament selection committee with indelible proof it belongs in the so-called Big Dance, the Mountaineers will want to hide the tape of its ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN — When Chuck Howley came from Warwood High School to play football for Art “Pappy” Lewis at WVU, he had been recruited as an offensive lineman. He was an able offensive center and guard for the Mountaineers from 1955 through the 1957 season, when athletes could be varsity ...
MORGANTOWN -- One athletic family from Pittsburgh, Pa. has the unusual prominence of having three siblings named to the WVU Athletic Hall of Fame. High-scoring basketball sisters Kate Bulger and Meg Bulger and record-setting football quarterback Marc Bulger were among the all-time greats in ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN — Is basketball a sport where only the tallest players can excel? Or does size mean only so much and then being competitive, having a vast knowledge of the nuances of the game and possessing the needed natural ability mean just as much? Height can be important. But the innate ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN — Rolling in the midwestern heartland. The 10-team Big 12 Conference had six teams ranked in the Top 15 in this week’s Associated Press poll. All six now appear to have a choke hold on a berth in the NCAA tournament. Like staring at the rungs on a ladder, the Big 12 teams ...
SHEPHERDSTOWN — James W. Casey made his indelible marks on the sports world, no matter where he found himself. As a high school coach of several sports and later as an athletic director, his larger-than-life influence knew few bounds. As a trainer of thoroughbred horses, his winning ways ...
