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Virginia is among the oldest teams in college football

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - College football players, you may have heard once or twice over the past couple of years now, are allowed to be paid. They get revenue sharing and NIL money, which is a whole lot more than books, meals and a laundry allowance. Virginia, which possesses the nation’s No. ...

Mountaineers have one less worry with Cassidy at kicker

MORGANTOWN — There’s not a lot of automatics in college football anymore. There’s uncertainty about whether players will transfer or not, if a Power Four school could actually beat a Group of Six school, or if NFL players can play in college again. Through the first two games of West ...

WVU defense putting bigger emphasis on communication

MORGANTOWN — If you looked at the scoreboard during the U.T. Martin game, 52-7, you’d think the defense had a dominant performance. But, if you watched the game, you’d see there were issues, and it couldn't looked a little bit closer. There were multiple opportunities for the Skyhawks to ...

A history of Rich Rod at West Virginia and first downs

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - Rich Rodriguez says that his goal is to get 25 first downs in a game and that his West Virginia Mountaineers will usually win. Will they? Let's take a look at the games he has coached in Morgantown. -In games in which WVU had 25 first downs or more with the Mountaineers, they are 17-2. If you cut that number back just by one to 24 first downs, they are 20-4. -His first year, 2001, WVU won only three games and they had 22 in two of them and 28 in the other. -That year he had his highest scoring game ever, beating Rutgers, 80-7, but that was not the game in ...

WVU quarterback Hawkins has calm, collected confidence

MORGANTOWN - The frizzed-out hairstyle, the black-rimmed glasses and the goatee sported by WVU quarterback Michael Hawkins Jr. makes him an almost identical twin of the late great Shock G, a 1990s rapper with Digital Underground, who was better known as Humpty Hump. Maybe that’s somewhat ...

D&E soccer teams split games at Point Park; Lady Tigers blank Keyser

PITTSBURGH, Pa. - The Davis & Elkins men's soccer team remained unbeaten on the season with a 1-0 victory over Point Park University Saturday in Mountain East Conference action.      The Senators' lone goal in the contest came just four minutes into the match when Benjamin Luengo scored his second goal of the season off an assist from Hugo Fauli.      Davis & Elkins College (3-0-1) held a 9-2 advantage in shots-on-goal for the contest and a 4-2 edge in corner kicks.       The Senators will return to action on Wednesday when they host Wheeling University for another ...