MORGANTOWN -- West Virginia athletics announced it will add 140 new scholarships starting with the 2026-27 school year. Football will receive 16 of the scholarships, and 124 of them will be for Olympic sports. The added scholarships will make the total 400 for its 18 sports. "When ...
MORGANTOWN -- West Virginia announced it sold the naming rights of the Coliseum to Hope Gas as part of a 10-year deal. As part of the deal, the arena will now be called Hope Coliseum. “Hope Gas is a West Virginia based company with West Virginia values and aspirations to make West ...
MORGANTOWN -- Lawmakers, WVU president Michael T. Benson, athletic director Wren Baker, football coach Rich Rodriguez and three WVU football players were in attendance Thursday to watch West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey sign two bills into law inside WVU football’s team room. Morrisey ...
MORGANTOWN -- Saturday will be the 108th meeting of the Backyard Brawl between Pitt and West Virginia, one of the famous rivalries in college football. It’s been going for four years strong now, but after this year, the rivalry will be postponed until 2029. For a few years, the biggest ...
MORGANTOWN -- On June 6, college athletics was sent into a spiral. It had already been getting out of hand, but it took a dive into the deep end. In the House v. NCAA settlement, it stated college athletes were allowed to be paid directly by the universities, as a revenue-sharing agreement, ...
MORGANTOWN -- The athletic director of an institution has a couple of jobs, and a lot more in this new era of college athletics with revenue-sharing, NIL and the ever-changing conferences. If you go down to the high school level, a big part of the athletic director's is handling the schedule. ...