MORGANTOWN – Seven outstanding contributors to Mountaineer Athletics make up the 36th class of honorees in the West Virginia University Sports Hall of Fame, announced today by Vice President and Director of Athletics Wren Baker. The class of 2026 includes John Beilein (men’s basketball), ...
MORGANTOWN — Jaden Bray is the old man on West Virginia’s campus. He’s been a receiver on the football team for the past two years and was at Oklahoma State three years before that. Bray hadn’t played every year, dealing with injuries, but he still has a lot of experience. “I definitely feel like the older guy out there,” Bray said. Bray has taken the role as leader of the receiver room. WVU has a lot of new and young players, so he has a lot of teaching to do. “How I lead the young guys is just trying to show by example how it's done,” Bray said. “Whenever they ...
MORGANTOWN — Rich Rodriguez used this offseason to create a foundation to build the West Virginia program on. Rodriguez didn't have a normal offseason the year before since he was hired in December. There wasn’t time to bring in a freshman recruiting class. The only commits left were the ones who stayed from the Neal Brown class. Rodriguez brought in almost 50 high school and junior college players to hopefully create continuity for the next couple of years at WVU instead of living by the transfer portal like some schools do. Rodriguez landed a couple of highly recruited ...
Former West Virginia football star Stedman Bailey was arrested by police in Pembroke Pines, Florida, on charges of having sex in a mall. The alleged encounter took place about 12:30 a.m. on Monday, July 27, inside Pembroke Lakes Mall near the arcade bar. Bailey and his partner, Karina Manderson, were arrested on charges of indecent exposure. Bailey played in 39 games over three seasons with the Mountaineers at wide receiver from 2010-12. In 2011, Bailey led the Big East with 1,279 yards and 12 touchdowns. The following year, now in the Big 12, Bailey improved and tallied 1,622 yards ...
MORGANTOWN — It’s taken 61 years, but it appears North Carolina has finally gotten over Ron “Fritz” Williams and is set to play West Virginia once again. The two schools announced Thursday they would meet this season, on Nov. 27, at the Spectrum Center in Charlotte. The game is part of the Dick Vitale Invitational. ESPN will televise the game on one of its networks. The last time the two schools met was in 1965, with Williams going for 25 points on 9 of 11 shooting and adding six assists in the Mountaineers’ 102-97 victory inside the Reynolds Coliseum in Raleigh, ...
