MORGANTOWN -- J.J. Wetherholt just may have saved Opening Day for everyone here in Morgantown and in the entire state of West Virginia on Thursday. If you haven’t heard, the former West Virginia All-American and 2023 Big 12 Player of the Year, homered in his second-ever at-bat as a major ...
MORGANTOWN — In this era of college football and athletics, the transfer portal is part of everyday lives. If a player isn’t happy with their current situation, they can change schools in the offseason and be ready to play for their new team the following season. There’s no punishment ...
MORGANTOWN — On March 26, former West Virginia baseball player J.J. Wetherholt will make his MLB debut for the St. Louis Cardinals as they host the Tampa Bay Rays at 4:15 p.m, becoming the 32nd Mountaineer to reach the big leagues. Wetherholt was called up to the majors as the ...
MORGANTOWN — Last year, West Virginia football’s Rich Rodriguez had to keep a lot of cards close to his chest. Rodriguez couldn’t release a depth chart or say one player was starting over another because there was a second portal period in the middle of April. If Rodriguez revealed too ...
MORGANTOWN -- To some degree, Jordan Harrison walked onto the WVU campus three years ago as the player to be named later. The buzz in early April of 2023 was the hiring of Mark Kellogg. The bigger-picture priority was if he could retain a core group of returning players who had just played ...
MORGANTOWN — West Virginia’s offensive line coach, Rick Trickett, had dinner with one of the new young coaches on the staff, who was helping with the corners. The coach was getting chewed out. Trickett went onto YouTube and found a video of his former coaching partner, Nick Saban, ...
