WVU Sports

Mountaineers Start Football Practice Today

MORGANTOWN — The most unusual season in 129 years of West Virginia University football begins this morning when Neal Brown’s Mountaineers officially begin practice. Since March when the COVID-19 virus shut down NCAA sports, nothing has been usual, nor will it be anytime soon. Brown and his staff have had a lot of time to think about how they want to conduct fall training camp, and what they’ve come up with is not included in the Paul Brown Football Manual or Football For Dummies. This is truly modern stuff Brown has planned for his team to keep them safe and healthy this ...

WVU’s Caleb Rea Finalist For Individual Upset of Year

Exciting finishes in big matches has been a trademark of Caleb Rea’s. He accomplished a couple of those electric moments during his high school career and is continuing to do at the collegiate level. The latest came earlier this season — his second while wearing the Blue and Gold of West ...

WVU’s Noah Adams Wins Hardman Award

MORGANTOWN — Noah Adams’ perfect season didn’t have the perfect ending. The outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic kept Adams from competing in the NCAA national championship tournament. Before that, the 197-pound West Virginia University wrestler had racked up a 32-0 record and was ...

Colton McKivitz’s Path To NFL Draft

During the course of this weekend’s NFL Draft, plenty of stories will be shared about the journeys that players have taken to get to the point of becoming a professional football player. When Colton McKivitz thinks about his path to what he hopes will be a lengthy career in the NFL as an ...

Huggins To Help Guide Tshiebwe With Draft Process

Bob Huggins — for the entirety of his 40-year college career — has always done right by his players. Nothing will change about that he prepares to help guide heralded post player Oscar Tshiebwe, who just completed his freshman season at West Virginia, through the NBA Draft ...

Brown Making Most Of Limited Coaching Time

MORGANTOWN — Four hours a week. That is not much time when you are the head coach of a power five football team. But that is the situation WVU’s Neal Brown finds himself in as the coronavirus continues to have a crippling stranglehold on the American lifestyle. Brown and his fellow Big 12 ...