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Mountaineer football slate set for 2026

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MORGANTOWN — West Virginia’s 2026 football schedule is set. The Big 12 Conference announced the 2026 slate on Wednesday morning, showing off the Mountaineers opponents and filling out the rest of their schedule. WVU starts the 2026 season off with Coastal Carolina on Sept. 5 at Milan Puskar Stadium. It’ll be a revenge game for newly added pass rusher Zeke Durham-Campbell, who recently transferred. New WVU President Michael T. Benson has just come over from Coastal Carolina, where he helped build up that program. The Mountaineers then host UT Martin on Sept. 12 as their FCS ...

Lady Tigers win Bridge invite

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BRIDGEPORT — The two-time defending state champions Elkins girls swam to first in the Bridge Invitational held Monday at The Bridge Sports Complex, while the boys turned in a second-place finish. The Invitational was comprised primarily of Big 10 Conference schools, along with the ...

Zirkle nets 17 as Elkins girls pull away from Preston

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KINGWOOD — Maddy Zirkle scored 13 of her game-high 17 points in the second half as Elkins pulled away for a 50-30 win over Preston Tuesday night in Big 10 Conference action. The Lady Tigers led 20-12 at halftime but outscored the Lady Knights, 30-18, over the final two quarters. Mencia Gomez chipped in 14 points in the win. Camdyn Metheny led Preston with 10 points. Elkins (6-3, 3-1 Big 10) is slated to visit Lewis County this evening for another Big 10 contest. Elkins (50) Maddy Shreve 2 0-0 4, Mencia Gomez 6 1-2 14, Ziah George 2 0-0 4, Emma Gilbert 3 0-0 7, Maddy ...

Cignetti reaches pinnacle of college football

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MORGANTOWN — “Tentacles” Sounds like a title for a horror movie, right? Truth is, there once was one in 1977, an Italian-American horror film about a killer octopus occupying a seaside town, starring a rather strong, all-star cast — Henry Fonda, John Huston, Shelly Winters — for this genre of movie that was little more than a ripoff of the hit movie “Jaws” from a year earlier. In a way it would be the perfect title for the movie that is sure to come out of Indiana’s stunningly rapid climb to the top of the college football world, for seldom has such a national ...

WVU women can’t overlook Arizona State

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MORGANTOWN — West Virginia women’s basketball’s bounce-back win over Cincinnati and one-point loss to TCU launched it back into the AP Top 25. The Mountaineers are now ranked No. 22 in the newest AP Poll, marking the second time they’ve been ranked this season. The Mountaineers are off to a hot start in Big 12 play and have just two losses and five wins, making for a 15-4 record overall. The wins should only grow over the next couple of games if WVU takes care of business. After the close loss to the Horned Frogs, the Mountaineers started a stretch of games against ...

WVU cagers visit Arizona State tonight

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MORGANTOWN — The trip will cover around 2,000 miles — give or take — and when the WVU men’s basketball team arrives in Tempe, Ariz. for today’s 9 p.m. matchup against Arizona State, the weather will be about 30 degrees warmer than it is in Morgantown. It’s still up in the air whether that’s good or bad news for the Mountaineers, who are still searching for their first victory of the season away from Hope Coliseum. “What (WVU head coach Ross Hodge) left us with right now, before we kind of all brought it in, he was like, ‘Let’s take it on the road,’ ” WVU ...