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 ...
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 ...
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 — West Virginia has been silky smooth from the free throw line. It has landed on its feet after three consecutive overtime games in three days. And it easily rode to home-court wins in preparation for the long-awaited conference schedule. After a warm-up cruise through Mercyhurst ...
MORGANTOWN -- West Virginia will not have the sit-around-and-wait problem other bowl teams will need to negotiate. This coming Tuesday, will find Chad Scott and the Mountaineers in Frisco, Texas for a night game -- only the second bowl game of the lengthy 41-game bowl season this December and ...
MORGANTOWN — With starters playing long minutes and routinely posting excellent statistics, West Virginia University opened eyes all across the country when it won two games in a three-day tournament over the Thanksgiving weekend. All three games went into overtime. All three games were ...
MORGANTOWN -- It rained on both teams. It was cold and uncomfortable for both teams. But the raw and dank weather conditions were shiny and bright for one team -- and that team was West Virginia University after the Mountaineers defeated the University of Central Florida, 31-21, on Saturday in ...
