MORGANTOWN -- There are no crystal balls – just basketballs, as it turns out, – to determine how Ross Hodge will fare as the WVU men’s hoops coach. As the situation currently stands, he will be the third coach in as many years to make his Power Conference debut with the Mountaineers ...
MORGANTOWN -- It may seem like, as the head coach of the Clay-Battelle football team, which is poised to finish with the school’s highest-ever state ranking at No. 3 with a victory over Magnolia on Friday, that Aaron LaPoe is on the ride of his life these days. Truth is, he’s been ...
MORGANTOWN -- There are only a handful of true freshmen starting quarterbacks in the country, and even less who are slightly successful. An even smaller number have a ranked win, and probably three have a ranked win on the road. West Virginia is one of the very few schools that have ...
MORGANTOWN -- It was a molding that pretty much began from the first day Sydney Shaw stepped foot on the WVU campus last year, after she transferred from Auburn. The book on Shaw was offensive. Not that she offended anyone, but rather her basketball potential was always seen as someone who ...
MORGANTOWN -- West Virginia’s identity, and what Rich Rodriguez wanted the team’s identity to be was running the football. Rodriguez wanted to use the hard edge and out-muscle teams, pushing them back, creating holes for the running backs and the quarterback. WVU hadn’t run ...
MORGANTOWN -- It was either one of the best offensive calls of the season by Rich Rodriguez or Houston coach Willie Fritz should be searching for a new defensive coordinator today. The situation: WVU faces a fourth-and-four from Houston’s 34-yard line. There’s 13 minutes remaining in ...
