CLARKSBURG — A former college basketball player and Estonian national has admitted to carrying out a fraud scheme totaling millions of dollars, U.S. Attorney Matthew L. Harvey announced Thursday. Kerr Kriisa, 25, pleaded guilty to a single count of wire fraud. According to the plea ...
The case involving the eligibility status of West Virginia defensive back Jason Chambers, basketball players Brenen Lorient and Javan Buchanan and baseball pitcher Ben McDougal will head for another court room. The NCAA filed a Notice of Appeal on Friday and the appeal will now be heard by ...
MORGANTOWN — Four West Virginia University athletes received good news Wednesday morning. Men's basketball forwards Brenen Lorient and Javan Buchanan, football defensive back Jason Chambers and baseball pitcher Ben McDougal were granted a preliminary injunction against the NCAA by United ...
MORGANTOWN – As the doors to the West Virginia practice facility opened Monday, Miles Sadler was making his usual rounds. He moves around from one group of teammates to the next and stops to have a short conversation with a WVU assistant. If you already didn’t know who Sadler was, he ...
MORGANTOWN – Willie Akers, a starting forward on WVU’s 1959 national runner-up men’s basketball team and an award-winning high school coach in West Virginia, died Tuesday in Logan at the age of 89. The Mullens native was inducted into the WVU Hall of Fame in 2002. He was a two-year ...
MORGANTOWN -- Turns out West Virginia head coach Ross Hodge didn’t have to travel very far to fill his final roster spot with the news that forward Brenen Lorient intends to play his fifth season with the Mountaineers this season. The news was first reported by Joe Tipton of On3 and head ...
