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WVU football is finalizing who is ready

MORGANTOWN — It’s crunch time for Rich Rodriguez and West Virginia football. In under two weeks, the Mountaineers will run out to the field to face Coastal Carolina in the first game of the season on Sept. 5. In these last couple of days leading up to the first game, it’s a lot of ticking off the final unknowns. The biggest unknown is finalizing who is ready to play. Who is ready to take on an FBS school in under two weeks. “I think we’ve gotten to the point where we identified most the guys that are ready to play,” Rodriguez said. “There’s still a few more that we got ...

Randolph County Sports Hall of Fame ceremony set

Editor's Note: The 2026 Randolph County Hall of Fame induction ceremony will be Saturday at the Gandy Dancer Theater. The Inter-Mountain will be running profiles and photos of this year's class in the days leading up to the ceremony. The 1970-1971 Tygarts Valley Bulldogs delivered one of ...

High school football begins

ELKINS - The wait is finally over and the start of the 2026 high school football season officially gets underway for area teams tonight with a handful of games slated for 7 p.m. kickoffs. Two local squads, Elkins and Philip Barbour, are both coming off strong campaigns from a year ago. Both ...

Judy, Driscoll to be inducted into Hall of Fame

Editor’s Note: The 2026 Randolph County Hall of Fame Induction ceremony will be Saturday at the Gandy Dancer Theater. The Inter-Mountain will be running profiles and photos of this year’s class in the days leading up to the ceremony. ELKINS — Cliff Judy lettered in basketball from ...

Rodriguez talks filling WVU footballs final spots

MORGANTOWN — There are just under two weeks until West Virginia football’s first game of the season against Coastal Carolina on Sept. 5, so a depth chart is starting to form, and the roster is becoming finalized. Rich Rodriguez still has one or two roster spots open for adding new players. Last year, Rodriguez had late additions into the season, but none really made an impact. At the start of camp, Rodriguez was asked about adding class of 2022 players affected by the new 5-for-5 ruling, like some of the other schools. At the time, the court ruling in Colorado, which granted a ...

WVU embracing underdog mentality

MORGANTOWN — West Virginia football finished 4-8 last season and had the third-fewest wins in the Big 12. But that year is in the past, and now during “talking season,” experts and sportsbooks are placing their predictions for the Mountaineers' 2026 season. The team should be better on ...