WVU Sports Archive
Friday, July 18, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- Mike Joseph, West Virginia's director of strength and conditioning, thinks the Mountaineers' football players are at the point w ......

Friday, July 18, 2008
GREENTREE, Pa. -- Devin Ebanks doesn't realize it and he certainly doesn't promote it, but all it takes to turn heads and get people to point ......

Thursday, July 17, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- The $2.5 million about to be paid in the Rich Rodriguez buyout litigation initially will go into West Virginia University's gen ......

Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Ryan Spiker, a two-lineman for Tri-Valley High School in Dresden, Ohio, has given a verbal commitment to play football at West Virginia, the Zane ......

Wednesday, July 16, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- West Virginia University's offensive line, which returns all five starters from last year, is ranked No. 1 in the country by one pre ......

Wednesday, July 16, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- Twenty-one months ago, which is a veritable eternity in the world of college basketball recruiting, Chris Braswell was committed to the ......

Tuesday, July 15, 2008
CINCINNATI -- A second assault trial for former Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Chris Henry has ended abruptly with prosecutors dropping the las ......

Tuesday, July 15, 2008
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- Cam Thoroughman sat behind a scorer's table at the WVU student recreation center Monday afternoon next to two people he ......

Tuesday, July 15, 2008
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- By virtue of their early commitments to the 2010 recruiting class at West Virginia University, Noah Cottrill and Storm Stanley ar ......

Monday, July 14, 2008
MORGANTOWN - Mortty Ivy, West Virginia's second-leading tackler in 2007, can hardly wait until preseason practice starts on Saturday, Aug. 2." ......

Monday, July 14, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- Long and restless nights had become somewhat normal to Terence Kerns as he spent suspenseful hours the past two years trying to qualify ......

Monday, July 14, 2008
MORGANTOWN - The West Virginia State Police has provided two troopers to accompany the West Virginia University football team on trips to road games a ......

Friday, July 11, 2008
MORGANTOWN - The thought herein is that West Virginia University had Rich Rodriguez in a corner, but let the former head football coach to wiggle out ......

Friday, July 11, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- Storm Stanley, a 6-foot-10 center from Toledo, Ohio, who committed to West Virginia's 2010 men's basketball recruiting class Tue ......

Friday, July 11, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- Dee Proby finally made the expected official. The 6-foot-10, 240-pound junior college forward, who signed a national letter of intent in ......

Friday, July 11, 2008
A Friday collection of fact, fun and folderol:Who did well in the recent NBA Draft? Well, teams aside, how about West Virginia Coach Bob Huggins? The ......

Thursday, July 10, 2008
MORGANTOWN - From the outset to the conclusion, attorneys representing West Virginia University in its lawsuit seeking to collect the buyout from form ......

Thursday, July 10, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- Once upon a time, before Pete Kirschner was in his current position as The Hoop Group's AAU tournament director, the organization ha ......

Thursday, July 10, 2008
MY fellow West Virginians, our long, state nightmare is over. That's paraphrasing an honest-to-goodness Michigan Man, one of the most famous footb ......

Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Here is the news release West Virginia University sent out to describe today's settlement with former Mountaineer football Coach Rich Rodrigu ......

Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Two players with West Virginia connections signed National Basketball Association rookie contracts on Tuesday, and in the process became very rich men ......

Wednesday, July 9, 2008
For a growing roster of players that could hit double figures -- barring an expected  settlement very soon -- the Rich Rodriguez legal saga ......

Wednesday, July 9, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- Perhaps no one was more surprised about Storm Stanley's commitment to West Virginia basketball's recruiting class of 2010 on Tue ......

Wednesday, July 9, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- After seven bitter months, an agreement has been reached between West Virginia University and former head football coach Rich ......

Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Center Stanley 'going to be a monster'
MORGANTOWN - To say Bob Huggins has been recruiting up a storm would be quite accurate.The West Virginia basketball coach got the second pledge for th ......

Tuesday, July 8, 2008
HUNTINGTON -- Marshall University's ticket office plans to open ticket sales for the West Virginia football game to the general public on Jul ......

Sunday, July 6, 2008
MORGANTOWN  -- The Sun Bowl Association has named 75 outstanding football players to its 75th Anniversary All-Sun Bowl Team, and the late Ha ......

Saturday, July 5, 2008
Rich Rodriguez arguably presided over the biggest choke job in college football history.On Dec. 1, the Mountaineers faced hated Pitt in the regular se ......

Thursday, July 3, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- West Virginia University distance runner Keri Bland of Fairview will compete in the U.S. Olympic track and field trials today in Eugene, ......

Thursday, July 3, 2008
Albert Einstein said, "I never think of the future -- it comes soon enough." With apologies to Big Al, he didn't need a column. So, toda ......

Thursday, July 3, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- Bob Huggins' first trip back to the University of Cincinnati as an opposing coach highlights West Virginia's conference scheduli ......

Wednesday, July 2, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- The Big East Conference announced on Wednesday the breakdown of league games, home and away, for the West Virginia University men&# ......

Wednesday, July 2, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- West Virginia University gymnastics Coach Linda Burdette announced the hiring of Travis Doak, a Beverly native, as an assistant coach on ......

Wednesday, July 2, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- Raymond Walsh Jr., who died Saturday at the age of 76, was an outstanding defensive player for West Virginia University in the early 195 ......

Wednesday, July 2, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- It's late at night Sept. 18 as West Virginia's offense positions itself along the line of scrimmage once more. Tested by the thi ......

Wednesday, July 2, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- Tucked away within the revelation he did in fact discuss buyouts and alternatives with his former football coach was West Virginia Unive ......

Tuesday, July 1, 2008
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- A lawyer on the West Virginia University Board of Governors said in a deposition that he suggested the $4 million damages clause ......

Tuesday, July 1, 2008
MORGANTOWN - In the so-called "arms race" in major college athletics, West Virginia is just trying to stay a leg up.The 2008-09 ......

Tuesday, July 1, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- West Virginia University President Mike Garrison said in a deposition that former football coach Rich Rodriguez was "very distraugh ......

Tuesday, July 1, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- The West Virginia football coaching staff's decision to pass more in this season admittedly is exciting to Brandon Hogan."We ......

Monday, June 30, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- Since Pat White once turned down $400,000 to play pro baseball in the Los Angeles Angels' organization so he could play college foot ......

Monday, June 30, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- Coley White was among 20-some West Virginia University football recruits who checked in at Puskar Center this weekend for summer workout ......

Monday, June 30, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- Ellis Lankster thinks West Virginia 's defensive secondary will be stronger this year.The 5-10, 185-pound senior cornerback fro ......

Monday, June 30, 2008
By CHRIS RICHARDSONFOR THE DAILY MAILMEMPHIS, Tenn. -- Working in the National Basketball Association is something that I have wanted to do for as lon ......

Monday, June 30, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- The 2008 fiscal year ends today - and it's been a year like no other for the Mountaineer Athletic Club.Since last July 1, when  ......

Friday, June 27, 2008
SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Iowa State's Wesley Johnson says he will transfer to Syracuse to play basketball, picking the Orange over West Virginia, Pitt an ......

Friday, June 27, 2008
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Several West Virginia and Marshall players appear on the Football Writers Association of America checklist for 2008, includi ......

Friday, June 27, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- The West Virginia Sports Communications Office launched the official Pat White Web site -- Patwhiteplayshere.com -- early today to suppo ......

Friday, June 27, 2008
West Virginia University's finest athletic year has been confirmed. The Mountaineers finished 30th in the 2007-08 U.S. Sports Academy Directors ......

Friday, June 27, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- The reaction was as expected. There was relief and exuberance, handshakes and, of course, Huggs. Former West Virginia forward Joe Alexan ......

Thursday, June 26, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- West Virginia University's Sports Communications Office is launching the official Pat White Web site -- Patwhiteplayshere.com -  ......

Thursday, June 26, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- Four West Virginia University swimmers are set to compete at the 2008 U.S. Olympic Trials at the Qwest Center in Omaha, Neb., from Sunda ......

Thursday, June 26, 2008
NEW YORK -- O.J. Mayo opened his arms and made an announcement. "Just for the media,'' he said with a wide grin, "I can play the poi ......

Thursday, June 26, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- In just a few hours from now, Joe Alexander will become a very rich man, even if the idea does confound him. The former West Virginia fo ......

Wednesday, June 25, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- Four West Virginia University swimmers are set to compete at the 2008 U.S.. Olympic Trials at the Qwest Center in Omaha, Neb., June ......

Wednesday, June 25, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- The legendary Jerry West believes Joe Alexander will be among the first 10 players taken in tonight's 2008 NBA Draft at New York' ......

Wednesday, June 25, 2008
MORGANTOWN - Steve Alexander was a high school football star and played collegiately at Division II Grand Valley State. His professional life took him ......

Wednesday, June 25, 2008
MORGANTOWN - West Virginia University baseball Coach Greg Van Zant Tuesday announced the team MVPs for the 2008 season.Senior shortstop Tyler Kuhn was ......

Wednesday, June 25, 2008
MORGANTOWN - West Virginia University women's basketball Coach Mike Carey Tuesday announced the hiring of Joanna Bernabei as assistant coach.She r ......

Tuesday, June 24, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- Anyone who's watched the NBA Draft in recent years has no doubt noted Jay Bilas' fondness of adjectives. Perhaps it's the un ......

Tuesday, June 24, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- Lawyers representing West Virginia University believe they can prove former football Coach Rich Rodriguez had no misconceptions about th ......

Monday, June 23, 2008
MORGANTOWN - West Virginia football has done well with recruiting efforts in southeastern Virginia, but Division I-AA schools in the very same area ha ......

Monday, June 23, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- Sophomore Eddie Davis hopes to see more action at a cornerback position for West Virginia University this fall.The 6-foot, 180-poun ......

Monday, June 23, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- With the National Basketball Association's 2008 draft just two days away, West Virginia University's Joe Alexander has been ......

Monday, June 23, 2008
MORGANTOWN - Does the legendary Jerry West ever give any thought to having missed out on the millions of dollars professional basketball players are b ......

Friday, June 20, 2008
COLLEGE bowl bids are much easier to come by now than they were in 1953, and so are good college football players. Those facts make the bids and playe ......

Friday, June 20, 2008
IF another reason is needed to explain why the North-South All-Star football game needs a nascent Hall of Fame, evidence of it was on football practic ......

Friday, June 20, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- A West Virginia basketball recruit who took himself off the market when he signed with a Big 12 Conference school is available again.Jun ......

Friday, June 20, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- The voice on the other end of the phone is a familiar one, deep in tone, articulate in expression, confident in delivery. "It's ......

Thursday, June 19, 2008
Joe Alexander's agent says the West Virginia forward has been invited to next week's NBA draft. Doug Neustadt said Thursday that Alexander has ......

Thursday, June 19, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- When Nate Sowers arrived on West Virginia University's campus in 2005, he spent that first year as a redshirt learning to play quart ......

Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Besides an athletics fundraising function, the 12th annual West Virginia University Tech Reverse Raffle brought an interesting synergy to Charleston o ......

Wednesday, June 18, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- Wellington Smith woke up Monday morning and saw the sun that had set in the west had once again risen in the east. The Earth was still s ......

Tuesday, June 17, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- When Joe Alexander began interviewing agents in Las Vegas last month, just in case he decided to stay in the NBA draft, he sat down ......

Tuesday, June 17, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- The legend of Joe Alexander began well before his sensational surge late in his junior season. It was 2005 when a coy and curly-haired f ......

Tuesday, June 17, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- Bradley Starks is happily settled in as a wide receiver on West Virginia University's football squad after having switched from quar ......

Tuesday, June 17, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- West Virginia University star Tyler Kuhn was named to the American Baseball Coaches Association's All-America third team Monday ......

Tuesday, June 17, 2008
West Virginia University's 2009 football recruiting class grew to nine Monday when the Mountaineers received a commitment from a third player from ......

Monday, June 16, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- Joe Alexander's teammates weren't troubled to learn West Virginia's junior forward was skipping his senior season with ......

Monday, June 16, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- There was nothing secret about West Virginia University President Mike Garrison's deposition June 12, but there was a surprise ......

Monday, June 16, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- Scooter Berry came to West Virginia University two years ago as a fullback, but he wound up being an outstanding player on the defe ......

Monday, June 16, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- Linebacker Mortty Ivy believes West Virginia University's defense is capable of being better than last year's."I think ......

Monday, June 16, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- Quarterback Charlie Russell has decided to give up football at West Virginia University and concentrate on his studies.The 6-3, 210 ......

Monday, June 16, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- Bradley Starks is happily settled in as a wide receiver on West Virginia University's football team after having switched from ......

Sunday, June 15, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- Joe Alexander made it official Sunday evening.West Virginia University's 6-8, 220-pound forward has decided to remain in the 20 ......

Friday, June 13, 2008
MORGANTOWN - There wasn't much Maxwell Anderson could do in the spring but watch and listen, so he heard people say West Virginia didn't have ......

Friday, June 13, 2008
MORGANTOWN - As a father to three young children and a star running back at West Virginia, Noel Devine understands he's providing an example for t ......

Friday, June 13, 2008
MORGANTOWN - Linebacker Mortty Ivy believes West Virginia University's football defense is capable of being better than last year's."I th ......

Friday, June 13, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- West Virginia University track and field sophomore Keri Bland has qualified for the 1,500-meter finals at the NCAA Championships by fini ......

Thursday, June 12, 2008
MORGANTOWN - Hall of Fame Coach Don Nehlen, who won 149 games in 21 seasons at West Virginia University, was on the path to recovery Wednesday followi ......

Thursday, June 12, 2008
MORGANTOWN - An idea more than three years in the making came to fruition Wednesday as the Big East unveiled its 24th sport and plans for men's la ......

Thursday, June 12, 2008
  Rich Rodriguez claims West Virginia University head football coach Bill Stewart wanted to go with him to Michigan in December, only to later cri ......

Thursday, June 12, 2008
MORGANTOWN - Scooter Berry came to West Virginia University two years ago as a fullback, but he wound up being an outstanding player on the defensive ......

Thursday, June 12, 2008
MORGANTOWN - West Virginia University track and field sophomore distance runners Keri Bland and Clara Grandt will race at the NCAA Championships for t ......

Wednesday, June 11, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- Don Nehlen underwent successful triple bypass surgery at Ruby Memorial Hospital here on Tuesday.The 72-year-old former football coac ......

Wednesday, June 11, 2008
  Depositions today for Walker, ParsonsMORGANTOWN -- West Virginia University Chief of Staff Craig Walker and Deputy Athletic Director Mike Parso ......

Wednesday, June 11, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- The elite status West Virginia University junior Joe Alexander is attracting as a National Basketball prospect isn't surprising to f ......

Wednesday, June 11, 2008
MONTGOMERY -- When West Virginia University Tech talks about its recent past and immediate future in athletics, there's one area in which the Gold ......

Wednesday, June 11, 2008
MONTGOMERY -- When new WVU Tech football Coach Scott Tinsley pleads understandable ignorance on his foes in the Mid-South Conference, the recent Nitro ......

Tuesday, June 10, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- Two members of the West Virginia University Board of Governors are giving testimony Tuesday in the $4 million lawsuit involving ex- ......

Tuesday, June 10, 2008
MORGANTOWN - West Virginia University second baseman Jedd Gyorko has been named to the Pro-Line Athletic/National Collegiate Baseball Writers Associat ......

Tuesday, June 10, 2008
MORGANTOWN - The year was 1989 and Major Harris was carrying West Virginia University to a different level of college football's hierarchy. He' ......

Tuesday, June 10, 2008
MORGANTOWN - To be perfectly clear, West Virginia University's athletic department is not designing a Web site to promote Patrick White's cand ......

Monday, June 9, 2008
MORGANTOWN  -- The West Virginia University athletic department announced will provide WVU Children's Hospital with $61,311.32 as net proceed ......

Monday, June 9, 2008
Players who get selected in the 43rd round of the Major League Baseball Draft aren't usually the subjects of parades. But if any prep athlete in W ......

Monday, June 9, 2008
MONTGOMERY -- Scott Hurst is a former chemistry professor. He also once played football and wrestled a bit in the sports-crazed community that is Loga ......

Monday, June 9, 2008
MONTGOMERY -- In 1972, comedian George Carlin came up with the "seven words you can't say on television." You can figure out most of the ......

Monday, June 9, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- The second half of a semifinal game at the Bob Huggins Fantasy Camp on Saturday afternoon began with a three-seconds call. Seriously.It ......

Monday, June 9, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- Some oldtimers think Hot Rod Hundley might have been an even better player than Jerry West had Hundley taken the game of basketball more ......

Monday, June 9, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- Jerry West said Joe Alexander faces a great future as a player in the National Basketball Association, but he believes the talented ......

Friday, June 6, 2008
John "Doc" Holliday and the rest of the West Virginia coaches aren't sitting in their Morgantown offices this spring nervously biting th ......

Friday, June 6, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- Reed Williams, West Virginia University's leading tackler in 2007, said Thursday afternoon that he's still not 100 percent recov ......

Friday, June 6, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- Reed Williams, West Virginia University's leading tackler in 2007, said Thursday afternoon that he's still not 100 percent recov ......

Friday, June 6, 2008
MORGANTOWN - West Virginia University rifle coach Jon Hammond will represent Great Britain in three rifle events at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijin ......

Friday, June 6, 2008
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Mike Tranghese, who presided over the Big East's expansion from a basketball conference to one of college football's top-ti ......

Friday, June 6, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- Should Joe Alexander do what is widely assumed and stay in the NBA Draft, West Virginia University's basketball team would like ......

Thursday, June 5, 2008
MORGANTOWN - Joe Agreste is, like many others, expecting to be drafted into Major League Baseball this week. He's also among the large group of pl ......

Thursday, June 5, 2008
West Virginia University President Mike Garrison is staying? Or going?Maybe so. Maybe not. That may be a topic Friday in Charleston when the WVU Board ......

Thursday, June 5, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- Redshirt freshman Evan Rodriguez is no longer a part of the WVU football team, officials disclosed Wednesday.Director of Football Commun ......

Thursday, June 5, 2008
MORGANTOWN - The mother of a WVU football player booted off the team Wednesday after being charged with a felony said her son is not blameless but did ......

Wednesday, June 4, 2008
  MORGANTOWN -- We're in that two-sizes-too-small uncomfortable part of the year when news flows like molasses. You might call it frozen mola ......

Wednesday, June 4, 2008
  MORGANTOWN -- West Virginia University safety Charles Pugh is expected to turn himself in to authorities as soon as today to face a felony char ......

Wednesday, June 4, 2008
  MORGANTOWN -- A historic view of the past and picturesque views of the city's landscape are part of West Virginia University's vision a ......

Wednesday, June 4, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- Robert Joseph Smith, a Charleston native, served West Virginia University with both dedication and distinction as both a player and assi ......

Wednesday, June 4, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- West Virginia University safety Charles Pugh is expected to turn himself in to authorities as soon as today to face a felony charge of f ......

Wednesday, June 4, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- A historic view of the past and picturesque views of the city's landscape are part of West Virginia University's vision as plans ......

Tuesday, June 3, 2008
IRVING, Texas -- No matter how things play out, June 2, 2008, goes down as a big day for the Dallas Cowboys. On the same afternoon, the Cowboys found ......

Tuesday, June 3, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- Police at West Virginia University are investigating a break-in last week at the Mountainlair parking garage that may have involved pros ......

Tuesday, June 3, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- Two more recruits have joined the West Virginia women's basketball team. That makes 12 recruits that Coach Mike Carey has added to a ......

Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Jerry West remembers oh so very well ... not that he cherishes the recollection. With the NBA Finals again the stage for the storied Lakers-Celtics ri ......

Tuesday, June 3, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- One could certainly understand why Jeff Mullen would have watched Patrick White closely the past few years. As White was working his mag ......

Monday, June 2, 2008
MORGANTOWN - There is something mysterious and borderline mythical about Chris Freeman, who quite suddenly has become one of the nation's most cov ......

Friday, May 30, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- West Virginia University's $4 million lawsuit against the school's former football coach, Rich Rodriguez, is headed for mediatio ......

Friday, May 30, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- It is unlikely that as new Coach Bill Stewart assembled his first football staff at West Virginia University he did so with the new recr ......

Friday, May 30, 2008
  There's a new event in Charleston to spice the annual WVU Classic golf fundraiser for the Mountaineer Athletic Club next week. The first Sh ......

Thursday, May 29, 2008
MORGANTOWN - "I think Joe's gone!" That is what coach Bob Huggins said Wednesday afternoon when asked whether he expects Joe Alexander t ......

Thursday, May 29, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- The first of West Virginia University's seven summer basketball camps begins next weekend with the first-of-its-kind fantasy camp. D ......

Wednesday, May 28, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- Olayinka Sanni, erstwhile leader of the West Virginia University women's basketball team, cracked the Detroit Shock's starting l ......

Wednesday, May 28, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- Last summer, the NBA invited 19 draft prospects to the "physical only" portion of its pre-draft camp. Among those 19 were the ......

Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Athlon Sports has named West Virginia University No. 7 in its preseason Top 25 football rankings. The publication announces its selections one at a ti ......

Tuesday, May 27, 2008
MORGANTOWN - An update on Joe Alexander has projected the West Virginia University star as the probable No. 8 overall pick, according to one National ......

Saturday, May 24, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- It continues to look more and more like Joe Alexander will decide to skip his senior basketball season at West Virginia University and t ......

Friday, May 23, 2008
MORGANTOWN - West Virginia University swimmer Nick Delic has been named to the ESPN The Magazine Academic All-District 2 first team announced by Colle ......

Friday, May 23, 2008
CLEARWATER, Fla. -- Senior Tyler Kuhn established a West Virginia University single-season high in hits (101), but the Mountaineers (35-21) came ......

Friday, May 23, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- West Virginia University Athletic Director Ed Pastilong returned from this week's Big East meetings with big news. He had no news.&q ......

Thursday, May 22, 2008
CLEARWATER, Fla. - Former University star and Big East Rookie of the Year Jedd Gyorko had a grand slam in the second inning to help West Virginia as t ......

Thursday, May 22, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- The process of recruiting Devin Ebanks to West Virginia University was a detailed and deliberate plan requiring both patience and persis ......

Thursday, May 22, 2008
NFL superstar Randy Moss once treated us to front-row seats in a fictional place called Rand University. Now sports fans are talking up a storm about ......

Wednesday, May 21, 2008
MORGANTOWN - As far as West Virginia University is concerned, its football rivalry with Maryland will be resumed automatically in 2010.Two games remai ......

Wednesday, May 21, 2008
MORGANTOWN - A few days ago, Wellington Smith fired off a text message to Joe Alexander, wishing his friend and teammate the best as he continues his ......

Tuesday, May 20, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- In truth, what's alleged to have happened at the University of Southern California could happen anywhere. An O.J. Mayo could show up ......

Tuesday, May 20, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- West Virginia University Coach Greg Van Zant is not counting the Mountaineers out of having a shot at capturing the Big East Confer ......

Monday, May 19, 2008
MORGANTOWN - Can Cincinnati defeat West Virginia for a fourth consecutive time?The second-seeded Bearcats will get that opportunity against the sevent ......

Monday, May 19, 2008
PRINCETON, N.J. - The West Virginia University women's track and field team placed 14th with 26 team points at the 2008 ECAC Outdoor Championships ......

Monday, May 19, 2008
PIGSKIN punditry:From West Virginia University's "out of the bad, comes something good" file is a development involving the 101st Backya ......

Monday, May 19, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- Devin Ebanks is no longer the top unsigned basketball player in the recruiting class of 2008.And at West Virginia University, we ......

Saturday, May 17, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- Billy Hahn admittedly is very happy serving as a vastly experienced assistant coach in the West Virginia University men's baske ......

Saturday, May 17, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- West Virginia University basketball star Joe Alexander is said to be leaning toward turning professional rather than returning for ......

Friday, May 16, 2008
CHAPMANVILLE -- The purpose will be twofold when the Rick Bowling ALS Walk is held at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Chapmanville High School track.It is design ......

Friday, May 16, 2008
CINCINNATI - Heavy rain here postponed the West Virginia-Cincinnati opener of a three-game Big East conference baseball series. The Mountaineers need ......

Friday, May 16, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- Jay Randolph, who grew up in West Virginia, is in his 50th year as a nationally known sportscaster and still going strong in St. Louis.O ......

Friday, May 16, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- Mark Richmond will walk across a stage this weekend and graduate from West Virginia University with a degree in physical education. Some ......

Friday, May 16, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- As summer camp draws closer, West Virginia football Coach Bill Stewart takes comfort in knowing several key players are close to ready f ......

Thursday, May 15, 2008
  MORGANTOWN - There is an interesting, though hardly unusual component to the new contract Bob Huggins signed May 2 to remain the head coach at ......

Thursday, May 15, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- Consider that in this one week Bill Stewart will do separate public appearances in Morgantown, Parkersburg, Beckley, Huntington and ......

Wednesday, May 14, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- West Virginia University rifle Coach Jon Hammond has announced the signing of Michael Kulbacki of Dubois, Pa., to a grant-in aid for 200 ......

Wednesday, May 14, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- Bill Stewart knows the power of a Patrick White endorsement. It was White who triumphantly touted Stewart as the right choice for West V ......

Wednesday, May 14, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- Rich Rodriguez's relationship with West Virginia University neared its end one day after the Mountaineers lost to Pitt and missed ou ......

Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Understand that this isn't a first by any means, but I've found something on which to disagree with Rich Rodriguez -- and it wasn't even i ......

Wednesday, May 14, 2008
MORGANTOWN -- The first player to commit to the 2009 recruiting class for West Virginia University's men's basketball team is also the first t ......

Tuesday, May 13, 2008
MORGANTOWN - Former WVU Coach Rich Rodriguez blamed "the environment that was going on in the athletic department" as the reason he decided ......