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WVU football is finalizing who is ready

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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 ...

Rodriguez talks filling WVU footballs final spots

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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 ...

Judy, Driscoll to be inducted into Hall of Fame

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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 ...

No. 7 WVU women's soccer looking to carry momentum onto the road

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MORGANTOWN — West Virginia women’s soccer is 3-0 on the season for the first time in two decades. 2006 was the last time the Mountaineers started the season 3-0, when it beat Richmond, James Madison and Western Michigan to start the year on a seven-game win streak. It's been so long ...

Mountaineer soccer beats St. Bonaventure

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MORGANTOWN — West Virginia men’s soccer finally wore down St. Bonaventure to pick up its first win of the season in its home opener Monday night. The No. 23 Mountaineers scored just one goal in the 62nd minute to win 1-0 over the Bonnies, picking up a much-needed bounce-back win. WVU lost the first game of the season against unranked Charlotte, 3-0, on the road. The Mountaineers are now 1-1 on the season, and St. Bonaventure fell to 1-1. Although the game was tied at half, the Mountaineers were dominating possession. WVU had 17 shots on goal and nine corners but couldn’t get ...

WVU embracing underdog mentality

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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 ...