MORGANTOWN — Much was made of West Virginia's football schedule and how they were the only team in the Big 12 which would carry the burden of playing five games in five weeks, a taxing challenge in a normal season, let alone this one.
MORGANTOWN — In the end, Derek Culver holds West Virginia’s future in his hands. Read more
Bluefield College was undermanned because of Covid-19 issues, but overcame that disadvantage with its prowess from the 3-point line. Read more
MORGANTOWN — We all know the jump from being a high school basketball star to Division I basketball in a Power Conference is a huge one for many players, but we sometimes forget that the jump from being a junior college star to Division I basketball in a Power Conference can be equally as challenging. Read more
Monday started out with plenty of good news for Marshall football. Read more
MORGANTOWN — The way West Virginia wide receiver TJ Simmons tells it, he has this one goal he'd really like to reach but knows he can't. Read more
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) — Quarterback Grant Wells grew up knowing the story of Marshall football. The 1970 plane crash. The university's decision to continue playing. The winning years that eventually would come. Read more
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — Jarrett Doege threw two touchdown passes and ran for one score, Leddie Brown surpassed 100 rushing yards for the fifth time this season and West Virginia beat TCU 24-6 on Saturday. Read more
Editor's note: Nov. 14 will mark the 50th anniversary of one of history's worst accidents involving a sports team – the 1970 plane crash that killed 75 people, including 37 players on Marshall University's Thundering Herd football team, five coaches, including head coach Rick Tolley who grew… Read more
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia coach Bob Huggins has one of the nation's top rebounding tandems back, and if the team shooting accuracy and ball handling can improve, the 15th-ranked Mountaineers could be poised to contend for an elusive Big 12 championship. Read more
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) — Born some three decades after the worst sports disaster in U.S. history, Grant Wells and his Marshall teammates are well schooled in the history, importance and the honor of wearing a jersey that has been passed down to them. Read more
MORGANTOWN — Whatever success West Virginia has enjoyed this season, which continues at noon on Saturday with TCU coming to Mountaineer Field, has been built from the ground up. Read more
Editor’s note: November 14 will mark the 50th anniversary of one of history’s worst accidents involving a sports team – the 1970 plane crash that killed 75 people, including 37 players on Marshall University’s Thundering Herd football team, five coaches, including head coach Rick Tolley who … Read more
Todd Duncan accomplished about as much as a West Virginia high school golfer can. Now he'll try to keep the momentum going at the highest level of the college game. Read more
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) — After a plane crash killed most of Marshall University's football team in 1970, school administrators could have resorted to the simplest choice — dropping the losing sport altogether. Read more
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) — Once Brenden Knox got the ball, No. 16 Marshall was off and running. Read more
The WVU Tech men's and women's cross country teams won the River States Conference championships Saturday at Rio Grande. Read more
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Texas secondary has experienced issues this season, allowing some long completions and committing too many pass interference penalties. Read more
GEORGETOWN, Ky. — WVU Tech fell 87-71 to NAIA preseason No. 1 No. 1 Georgetown College Friday evening in its season opener. Read more
The two-time reigning River States Conference champion got the season off to a good start. Read more
Saturday was another good day for WVU Tech soccer. Read more
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — Inconsistent for most of the season, West Virginia finally put together an all-around performance to boast about against a ranked opponent. Read more
Clemson coach Dabo Swinney always planned for talented freshman quarterback DJ Uiagalelei to take over for Trevor Lawrence, just not this weekend against Boston College. Read more
The fall season has taken on a don't-believe-it-till-you-see-it feel for high school sports thanks to the coronavirus. It has been just as unkind at the college level. Read more
morgantown — In the end, it’s about the culture in college football. Read more
As clean as the Marshall football program has been in regard to Covid-19, the same can't be said for some of its opponents. Read more
Marshall head coach Doc Holliday’s recruitment of Florida players to Huntington is well documented. Trips to the Sunshine State to play the likes of FIU, which the Thundering Herd will face Friday night (7 p.m., CBS Sports Network), are always described as “business trips,” but Holliday has … Read more
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Saint Mary-of-the-Woods (Ind.) College was approved for River States Conference membership by the RSC Council of Presidents on Tuesday. Read more
Last season was one of history for the WVU Tech women's basketball team. Read more
All James Long did in his first year as a head coach was lead WVU Tech to an unexpected conference championship and win a coach of the year award. Read more
Considering it had been three weeks since Marshall last played a football game, it might have been easy to forget that Marshall’s defense is pretty good. Read more
Early morning starts can easily lead to sluggish play. Normally, that affects the visiting team due to the travel involved. Read more
morgantown — When West Virginia’s talented defensive line of Darius and Dante Stills and Jeffery Pooler Jr. line up for its first play at Oklahoma State on Saturday there will be a familiar smiling — but snarling — face on the other side of the line. Read more
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) — Marshall coach Doc Holliday and his young quarterback saw the two injured Appalachian State players on the ground after a collision. So they knew what to do next. Read more
The cross country season — or at least what might resemble a season — will get started this weekend for WVU Tech. Read more
morgantown — The Big Ten Conference, facing pressure from all sides, reversed its course of action to delay football until the spring of 2021 and announced that it would resume football competition on Oct. 23. Read more
With as much inconsistency and fluidity that has marked Marshall’s football schedule, it was nice to get a bit of good news for a change. Read more
The WVU Tech women’s soccer team got the fall started well with a 3-0 win over Carolina University on Saturday at the YMCA Paul Cline Memorial Youth Sports Complex. Read more
Never has the cliché "one game at a time" carried as much validity as it does today. Read more
As with any young quarterback making his first college start, the key for Grant Wells was to make things as easy as possible in the early going. Read more
HUNTINGTON — Grant Wells probably envisioned playing in front of more fans at Joan C. Edwards Stadium. Read more
There will be no fan attendance at WVU Tech home games in any of its fall sports, the school announced Thursday. Read more
As the country longs for anything familiar, Marshall is actually right there. Read more
NORMAN -- Oklahoma University’s football team canceled practice Friday to march lockstep from the stadium to the campus Unity Garden to protest racial injustice and the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Read more
The times for Marshall’s remaining football games were revealed Friday with Conference USA’s broadcast schedule release. Read more
Marshall's game at East Carolina scheduled for Sept. 12 was postponed on Thursday after the American Athletic Conference announced several shifts in its teams' schedules. Read more
There will be fans inside the stadium for Marshall's season opener, and now there will also be a television audience. Read more
The Conference USA Preseason Offensive Player of the Year calls Huntington home, and Marshall fans — albeit fewer than usual — will get to see him play. Read more
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