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Can WVU women continue to make history?

MORGANTOWN — They will be rolling into Morgantown on Thursday, the official starting point of what is truly a special moment to be remembered for the WVU athletic department. They being NCAA women’s basketball tournament officials, 16th-ranked Kentucky and star players Clara Strack and Tonie Morgan, as well as the upset hopefuls from James Madison and Miami (Ohio). Hotels are filled. Restaurants will be packed. There is enough buzz around this university city that tickets to Saturday’s first-round games sold out in about two hours. To some small degree, the road to the Final ...

WVU, Yehl look to keep rolling vs. BYU

MORGANTOWN — By the time pitcher Maxx Yehl walked off the mound, West Virginia baseball concluded its eighth inning on the field. Yehl didn’t come out for the ninth and pitched a season-high eight innings, slowly ramping up his Tommy John surgery in the offseason. He had 12 strikeouts, walked a batter and allowed just three hits. Yehl didn’t allow a run. It was the best day on the bump from a WVU pitcher this season. Yehl’s performance earned him two national honors. He was named NCBWA Pitcher of the Week and earned a spot on the Baseball America National Team of the Week. ...

SEMIFINALS BOUND

CHARLESTON — Sixth-seed Tucker County used a third-quarter surge to hold off No. 3 Huntington St. Joseph’s, 59-57. Tuesday morning in Class A quarterfinal play at the Charleston Coliseum & Convention Center. The Mountain Lions (17-8) will now face Tug Valley at 11:15 a.m. Thursday in ...

Golf legend Greg Norman to tee it up for GameChanger

MORGANTOWN — Look for a Great White Shark sighting in May at the Greenbrier Resort. Greg Norman, the Australian pro golfer known by the above moniker, will deliver keynote remarks there during the annual GameChanger gathering at the five-star resort in White Sulphur ...

Is WVU or Miami of Ohio really ‘The Cradle of Coaches?’

MORGANTOWN — Every year around this time I hear from my good buddy in Fairmont, Michael Spevock, suggesting that this will be the year we finally jump into the car for our tour of North Central West Virginia, focusing on the towns and houses that produced the densest concentration of great football coaches you can find anywhere. It’s something we’ve talked about but have never done, but this may just be the year, for a spark to ignite it has been lit in the most unlikely of places — the first-round matchup on Saturday in the NCAA Women’s Basketball Championships. The ...

WVU to battle Stanford in The Crown

MORGANTOWN — Ross Hodge became the fifth first-year men’s basketball coach at WVU to lead the Mountaineers to a postseason tournament on Monday. The Mountaineers (18-14) officially accepted an invitation to The College Basketball Crown tournament on Saturday, but learned on Monday ...