CHARLESTON — The Elkins High School 4x800-meter relay teams captured Class AAA titles on the opening day of the state meet Friday at Laidley Field, while Tucker County’s Lucas Barb claimed the Class A high jump title. Bobby Valentine, Josh Bodkins, Dylan Fortney and Trevor George ...
MORGANTOWN — The current state of college athletics has turned into an “arms race,” as West Virginia athletic director Wren Baker called it in April. It’s become who can generate the most money to pay the best players to compete for championships. And it’s happening in all sports. Now, as college football legend Nick Saban said, it depends on where you spend the money, but as Rich Rodriguez recently said in an interview with ESPN’s Pete Thamel, it gets to a point where you can’t miss. “When rosters get up to $50 million, $60 million, $70 million, they’d have to be ...
CHARLESTON — Several area athletes will take part in the two-day state track & field meet set to get underway this afternoon at Laidley Field and concluding on Saturday evening. The following is a list of qualifiers for area schools (some event qualifiers were still pending at press time and subject to change): Elkins High School (Class AAA) Jaden Hatfield (100-meter dash, 200, 4x100 relay, 4x200); Randal Marks (100, 4x100, 4x200, shuttle hurdle relay); Bobby Valentine (800, 1600, 4x400, 4x800); Trevor George (800, 1600, 3,200, 4x800); Dylan Fortney (800, 4x800, 4x400); Josh ...
MORGANTOWN — It’s been over six months since West Virginia athletic director Wren Baker presented the West Tower Project at Milan Puskar Stadium to the WVU Board of Governors. During that meeting, Baker talked about how it’d drive more premium seating, which WVU lacked, showed renderings and presented an estimated cost for the project of $156 million. At the end of Baker's pitch, the board approved the early steps for Baker to find an engineering firm, a sales representative and an owner representative. Since the meeting, WVU has partnered with Barton Malow and March-Westin to ...
MORGANTOWN - It was probably easier for West Virginia University’s baseball coaches to find left-handed pitcher Maxx Yehl himself than to find the city in southwestern New York in which he lived. While Yehl himself in real life is super-sized like a Circle K Polar Pop Jug of soda that comes in a 100-ounce cup, Portville, N.Y, sits on the New York side of the border separating it from Pennsylvania, a dot on the map no bigger than Yehl’s fastball appears to a hitter as it spins toward the plate. The WVU lefthander who on Tuesday was named the Big 12 Pitcher of the Year, the third ...
