As a college wrestler, and one ranked No. 1 in the country in the 197-pound weight class, West Virginia redshirt junior Noah Adams has rarely if ever shied away from any opponent.
The sudden halt for the West Virginia men’s basketball team provided the roster with a chance to heal and reload before taking on what is sure to be a busy and crowded second-half schedule.
West Virginia’s 72-70 loss to No. 4 Texas at the Coliseum in Morgantown on Saturday, complete with a game-winning 3-pointer from Longhorns guard Andrew Jones with 1.8 seconds left, was enough to leave even the most rabid Mountaineer fan feeling hollow and empty.
If the now-viral video of a New Year’s Eve party at The Greenbrier Resort was a gut punch to sidelined high school winter athletes around the state, Gov. Jim Justice’s Friday news briefing was a slap in the face.
ESPN’s Fran Fraschilla called West Virginia’s 87-84 win at Oklahoma State on Monday, a game in which the 14th-ranked Mountaineers rallied from a 19-point second-half deficit, a “comeback for the ages.”
The more I’ve thought about Thursday’s Liberty Bowl, the more I’ve realized just how much WVU coach Neal Brown and his coaching staff is up against.
Who could’ve guessed the end of 2020 would bring with it a fairy-tale ending?
With WVU’s football program shut down until Thursday, it’s been mostly quiet out of the team as it prepares to finalize its early signing class on Wednesday.
Among current occupations I’d like to try for a living, projecting bowl games in the year 2020 has to rank just above professional snake milker and just below toilet paper factory worker on my personal list.
It’s become a winter rite of passage in the WVU football fan base.
With the postponement of Saturday’s scheduled game at West Virginia, Oklahoma is guaranteed to stay at 6-2 this week.
It’s Thanksgiving week and West Virginia University football fans are starving — starving for a win that means more than the rest.
The COVID-19 pandemic has certainly placed some unwanted restrictions on journalism.
By now, you don’t need me to tell you that it has been an odd year, both in life and especially in college football.
As we enter November, the month of Thanksgiving, the Big 12 Conference football race suddenly looks a lot like your local Walmart at 4 a.m. the morning of Black Friday — open and crowded.
As a country and as a people, we’ve successfully put human beings on the moon and sent them to the bottom of our deepest oceans.
There’s no bye week this Saturday for West Virginia University’s football team, no discernible dividing line in the schedule to indicate a week out of the ordinary.
Between the baseball playoffs, auto racing and NFL games, it was a heck of a Sunday to do some channel surfing.
For the past couple of weeks, when asked about the topic multiple times, West Virginia coach Neal Brown and his Big 12 coaching brethren have insisted that their conference is changing.
Jarret Doege’s final numbers in WVU’s 27-13 loss to Oklahoma State on Saturday weren’t great, nor were they awful.
To call Saturday’s game at Oklahoma State the biggest game of Neal Brown’s tenure as West Virginia University’s football coach may be true, but is also probably a bit unfair.
The band Third Eye Blind once pleaded for a friend to “Step back from that ledge.”
Trying to predict anything in 2020 borders on insanity, and when it comes to college football, perhaps the more poignant prognostication would be guessing how many games will be played.
Both Marshall and West Virginia have chances to kick off their seasons in style over the next two weeks, with the same opponent — Eastern Kentucky of the Football Championship Subdivision — traveling in for home games.
