Sports

Sylla can change the essence of WVU's offense

MORGANTOWN Let us begin with the reality of life in college basketball: big men don't grow on trees. If they did, West Virginia probably would stand tall in the production of dominant centers as there is surely no shortage of trees for them to grow on within the state. But while other schools have harvested big men such as Wilt Chamberlain, Bill Russell, Bill Walton, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Patrick Ewing right through Purdue's Zach Edey from the last couple of years, WVU has normally had to make due with smaller or less talented centers who could dominate games. Perhaps what says this ...

WVU trio recognized on Big 12 preseason team

MORGANTOWN – Three members of the West Virginia University women’s soccer team have been named to the 2026 Preseason All-Big 12 Soccer Team, as announced by the conference on Monday. Redshirt senior goalkeeper Bailey Herfurth, senior midfielder Anna Hauer and senior defender Nyema ...

EHS Basketball Squad Hosts Camp

Izzo-Brown's rare long-tenured coaching career

MORGANTOWN — Nikki Izzo-Brown, West Virginia's women's soccer coach since the sport was introduced at the school in 1996, calls herself a "unicorn" and it is wonderful self-image for anyone to have. In its mythological sense a unicorn is defined as "the symbol of purity, grace and things ...

WVU football players seeking n extra year of eligibility

MORGANTOWN — West Virginia football defensive back Jordan Scruggs and defensive lineman Eddie Kelly Jr. are exhausting options to play another year for the Mountaineers. Scruggs and Kelly took to social media to announce that they are seeking a temporary restraining order and a preliminary injunction against the NCAA to play another season. Both have court dates next week. This action comes after the NCAA switched to the new age-based eligibility rule on June 23, known as the 5 for 5 rule. The new ruling allows all college athletes a fifth year of eligibility over five seasons. But ...

Bizjack is the scorer that WVU has needed

MORGANTOWN — For the most part, this new era of college athletics has been, shall we say, annoying, especially the idea of every year in darn near every sport fans — to say nothing of coaches and even the players themselves — have to learn a new roster of players. By the time the coach had shaped them into what he wanted and by the time the fan had decided just who his or her favorite player was, he found himself wishing him well at his next school, in the professional ranks here or abroad, or simply going out to earn a living like all of us working stiffs. That hurt, not helped, ...