MORGANTOWN — Steve Sabins will be watching this weekend’s MLB Amateur Draft with both anticipation and with his fingers crossed. The draft begins at 1 p.m. today and will run through the first four rounds (135 picks), while rounds 5-20 will be on Sunday. After guiding the Mountaineers to ...
MORGANTOWN — Quarterback Nicco Marchiol hitting tight end Grayson Barnes in the end zone to tie the Backyard Brawl against Pitt was one of the top moments from West Virginia's 2025-26 athletic year. Everyone remembers just an hour later, Rich Rodriguez getting hit with Gatorade, and yelling on ESPN that the "West Virginia Mountaineers never quit," after the Mountaineers knocked off the Panthers in overtime, completing a 10-point comeback. It was iconic, and another page in the classic Backyard Brawl rivalry book on the gridiron. It's a book that won't be opened for quite some time, ...
MORGANTOWN — It seems like an annual question for Rich Rodriguez's second tenure at West Virginia. Who will play quarterback in Week 1 for the Mountaineers? Last year, Rodriguez held his cards close to his chest and had five different options for a starter, Nicco Marchiol, who eventually was ...
Former WVU men’s basketball player Kerr Kriisa appeared in a Kentucky federal courtroom Tuesday in what was his first appearance on five counts of wire fraud which allegedly totaled around $2.2 million. Kriisa, who was in shackles during the appearance, was ordered to be released from a Lexington, Ky. jail under the conditions that he not violate state or federal law, turn over his passport and have no contact with victims or witnesses. Kriisa’s initial appearance in the Kentucky court was to address administrative technicalities with transferring the case to West Virginia and to ...
West Virginia football doesn't appear until Day 2 of Big 12 Media Day in the afternoon at the Dallas Cowboys practice facility in Frisco, Texas. But that didn't mean there wasn't plenty to talk about when half of the other coaches took the podium, and the Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark took the stand in a lengthy introductory press conference. Yormark made headlines a couple of times in his opening remarks and then with the questions that followed, but the biggest was when he announced the Big 12 had partnered with Monster Energy to be the entitlement partner of Big 12 football and ...
