In this fourth installment in our eight-part series, I predict the future of not only Mountaineer athletics but the future of all college athletics.

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – The Mountaineers’ regular-season home finale of the 2023 baseball campaign was nearly picture perfect, as West Virginia secured a 5-3 victory over Texas Tech Sunday afternoon at Mon County Ballpark before an enthusiastic crowd of 3,312.

The Mountaineer football program saw a previous transfer commit in Jaylen Ellis switch to Colorado last week. Sunday, though, West Virginia reversed that path, as former CU commit E.J. Horton changed his mind and announced via social media that he was instead heading to WVU.

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – West Virginia’s bats were ice cold on Friday in its 5-2 loss to Texas Tech, but 24 hours later the Mountaineer offense was scorching hot, pounding the Red Raiders 17-2 at Mon County Ballpark.

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (WV News) — Before we put the Bob Huggins controversy to bed, hopefully forever, there is one final point that must be made and involves the role played by talk show hosts and the stations that carry them in such incidents as this.

MORGANTOWN, W.Va – The 12th-ranked Mountaineer baseball team had won 12 of its previous 13 games, but it couldn’t muster much offense Friday and dropped a 5-2 decision to Big 12 foe Texas Tech at the Mon County Ballpark before a crowd of 2,991.

In this third installment in our eight-part series, we predict the future of not only Mountaineer athletics but the future of all college athletics.

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (WV News) — No one would think any less of West Virginia’s Wren Baker if last night, over a glass of wine with his wife, he leaned back and looked at her and said, “What have we gotten into here?”

The amendment to Bob Huggins’ employment agreement at West Virginia, signed on May 9, contains two significant modifications to the veteran coach’s existing contract.

The Mountaineer football program picked up a commitment from a young transfer who is leaving Kentucky and now is heading to West Virginia.

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (WV News) — There’s a story that makes the rounds in major league baseball clubhouses about a rookie who comes into “The League”, as they call it and is red hot from the get go.

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — West Virginia got a lot of production last season when handing the football off to its running backs, as WVU averaged 171.5 rushing yards per game, which was easily the best mark in Neal Brown’s four seasons as the Mountaineers’ head coach.

West Virginia had scored 19 unanswered runs against Pitt over its last 13 at-bats in the Backyard Brawl, running away to record two consecutive routs.

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — West Virginia men’s basketball coach Bob Huggins is paying a hefty price for three hurtful words uttered over the course of four seconds Monday on WLW radio.

West Virginia University wasted little time in determining and applying sanctions to head coach Bob Huggins for the homophobic and anti-Catholic comments he made on Monday.

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (WV News) — Bob Huggins avoided the guillotine, which will not please those across America calling for his head after unleashing an anti-gay slur that also riled Catholics on a Cincinnati radio show.

West Virginia head basketball coach Bob Huggins will not lose his job, but rather will receive a salary reduction and a suspension for homophobic comments he made on Monday, according to ESPN's Pete Thamel.

When evaluated from the standpoint of overall impact and potential effect on standings and postseason seedings, just about every remaining game on West Virginia's baseball schedule is more important that the Mountaineers' final non-conference clash of the regular season, which comes up on We…

In this second installment in our eight-part series, I predict the future of not only Mountaineer athletics but the future of all college athletics.

Certainly, the homophobic slur uttered by Mountaineer men’s basketball coach Bob Huggins during a radio segment Monday sparked a firestorm in the state of West Virginia, as many have weighed in on the situation.

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (WV News) — I went to bed last night wanting to sleep on a homophobic slur uttered by West Virginia’s Hall of Fame basketball coach Bob Huggins on a Cincinnati radio station and all the ramifications it would have before jumping to any conclusions in a column.

West Virginia University women’s basketball head coach Mark Kellogg has announced the addition of Tirzah (Tear-ZAH) Moore to a grant-in-aid for the 2023-24 academic year.

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — The transfer portal is the way of the world in college athletics anymore, and all fans, players and coaches have to accept that fact, whether they like it or not.

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (WV News) — Throughout his long career as a Hall of Fame basketball coach, Bob Huggins has lived off creative defenses, the most famous of which was Press Virginia.

West Virginia head basketball coach Bob Huggins has acknowledged his use of a homophobic slur during an interview with Cincinnati radio station WLW on Monday.

West Virginia head coach basketball coach Bob Huggins has been accused of using a homophobic slur on an interview with radio station WLW in Cincinnati.

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — When a baseball team is enjoying the success like West Virginia’s 2023 squad has crafted, not everyone can be a star. In order to win three out of every four games it plays, such teams have to have a number of role players who won’t get to see action every day.

Junior Ben Hampton of the West Virginia University baseball team has been named the WVU Student-Athlete of the Week after his strong outing against Oklahoma.

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (WV News) — We've heard a whole lot about the NIL money that's been tossed around to college athletes these days but one suspects if you'd have asked the West Virginia baseball players after they beat Oklahoma, 9-3, on a Sunday for the ages, they would have given the NIL mo…

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — In this first of our eight-part series, I predict the future of not only Mountaineer athletics but the future of all college athletics.

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — A rain delay of three hours and 40 minutes was unusual, but hardly the only oddity in West Virginia’s 9-3 squashing of Oklahoma on Sunday at Monongalia County Ballpark.

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- Post game reactions from West Virginia's eventful 9-3 win over Oklahoma in Big 12 baseball action. The Mountaineers scored an efficient nine runs on nine hits in taking their fifth league series in six tries in 2023.

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — At some point, West Virginia’s winning streak was going to come to an end.

West Virginia's season opening football game at Penn State will be played under the lights. 

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (WV News) — Pitchers are a strange breed, no matter what the level.

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- Postgame interviews from West Virginia's 9-3 win over Oklahoma in Big 12 baseball action. The Mountaineers moved to 14-19 all-time against the Sooners, but more importantly gained a half-game on Oklahoma State and Kansas State in the league standings, as both of those te…

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — On a night in which JJ Wetherholt and Tevin Tucker did not get a hit at the top of the batting order, West Virginia’s baseball team did not miss a beat.

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (WV News) — West Virginia second baseman JJ Wetherholt’s spectacular sophomore season is harvesting all the headlines for West Virginia and, certainly, they are well deserved, but it creates a situation where others can easily be overlooked.

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — West Virginia University men’s basketball coach Bob Huggins has announced the signing of RaeQuan Battle to a grant-in-aid for the 2023-24 academic year.

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- On its second nine-game winning streak of the season, playing in front of several of the largest home crowds in its history and holding down first place in the Big 12 Conference, there's no doubt West Virginia's baseball team is having a lot of fun.

At WVU, as it is at most Division I universities, attention on the Big Three sports of football, men’s basketball and women’s basketball dominates the perceptions of the entire athletic program.

Omar Silverio announced his intention to transfer for West Virginia several months ago. Thursday Mountaineer men’s basketball coach Bob Huggins made it official, as he announced the signing of Silverio to a grant-in-aid for the 2023-24 academic year.

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Randy Mazey’s teams have always made bunting a part of their game. It’s not just the old school sacrifice bunt, though — moving runners along to get them into scoring position. Mazey employs the bunt as a weapon, which can be just as damaging as a two-run double off the wall.

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (WV News) — If you can read, and you wouldn’t be looking at this if you couldn’t, you are well aware of what WVU second baseman JJ Wetherholt has meant to the surging West Virginia baseball team that has captured the state’s imagination with its run of nine straight victori…

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – Most Mountaineer football players come to WVU from fairly close distances.

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- Not even the rain could dampen this celebration.

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- Post game interviews from West Virginia's 10-0 pasting of Pitt at Monongalia County Ballpark. West Virginia downed the Panthers for the second time this season, and have one more game against their Steel City rivals next week.

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (WV News) — Bob Huggins has fooled them all this year, putting together one of the top recruiting classes through the transfer portal, being an old dog who has been more than willing to learn some new tricks while relying heavily on what he’d learned through more than 40 ye…

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — It’s been quite a while since the Mountaineer football team used a true fullback in a game.

WVU coach Randy Mazey is never one to look ahead, and with his repeated mantra of the next game being the most important one on the schedule, he’s not about to offer any thoughts on the Mountaineers’ postseason hopes, let alone the lofty goal of hosting an NCAA regional.

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (WV News) — When West Virginia’s spring football session ended 10 days ago, one of the most positive factors to rise out of it was that the Mountaineers could pronounce running back CJ Donaldson healthy for the coming year.

The 2022-23 academic year at West Virginia University is winding to a close, and with it comes the end of another season of Mountaineer athletics.

May 3, 2009 – Greg Van Zant’s 15th Mountaineer baseball squad (37-18, 17-10 Big East Conference) destroyed Rutgers, 9-3, at Hawley Field to win the series against their former conference foe.

West Virginia’s running back room was the most deep and talented coming out of 2023’s spring football practice, so it wasn’t a surprise to see one of the many excellent players at that position make a move into the transfer portal as the deadline for doing so approached.

Sophomore JJ Wetherholt of the West Virginia University baseball team has been named the WVU Student-Athlete of the Week after a big week against Penn State and Baylor.

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (WV News) — I’ll be honest.