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The Chick-fil-A Beckley Roundball Classic was the last athletic event in the area not to be canceled by the coronavirus pandemic last March. Read more
MORGANTOWN — There's a promo running these days during West Virginia basketball games in which coach Bob Huggins says something to the effect that the state's greatest asset isn't coal, as most people say, but that it is, instead, its people. Read more
Liberty wrestling coach Nick Hylton usually goes into a season looking to get his team into as many dual matches as possible. The more duals, the more matches, which increases experience. Read more
Had this been a normal year in the River States men’s basketball conference, WVU Tech and Indiana University-Kokomo might likely be playing each other in the conference championship game. Read more
MORGANTOWN — It was right around lunch time on Tuesday when all of a sudden, the world as we know it went crazy. Read more
Prior to the start of the River States Conference Women's Basketball Tournament, WVU Tech head coach Anna Kowalska said the keys to her team's success would be defense and rebounding. Read more
Here is the schedule for the third annual New River CTC Invitational, March 31-April 3 at the Beckley-Raleigh County Convention Center. Read more
No. 10 West Virginia (16-6, 9-4) vs. No. 2 Baylor (18-0, 10-0) Read more
I recently reported on the deer harvest numbers here in the Mountain State. As a summary: The harvest was 7.5 percent higher than the 2019 harvest of 99,437 deer and 6 percent below the five-year average of 113,444. Read more
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tiger Woods crashed his SUV on sweeping, downhill road in the Los Angels suburbs Tuesday morning, and doctors tried to stabilize “significant” injuries to his right leg with rods and a combination of screws and pins. Read more
FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — West Virginia finished the road portion of its schedule strong. Read more
On the heels of a historic night for WVU Tech women's basketball, they and the men will return to Beckley for a home postseason doubleheader. Read more
Anthony Shrewsberry goes into each season with high expectations. Last season, with a team heavy on seniors, was no different. Read more
Brian Phipps always remembers the bad ones. Read more
Lawrence Nesselrodt probably thought he had seen it all in 38 years as a college baseball coach. The effects of the coronavirus pandemic served as a reminder to be prepared for anything. Read more
PITTSBURGH — Brittney Justice became WVU Tech’s all-time leading scorer and the Golden Bears defeated Carlow 96-48 Monday in the first round of the River States Conference Tournament. Read more
No. 10 West Virginia (15-6, 8-4) vs. TCU (11-9, 4-7) Read more
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Give him good cars and Christopher Bell will win races. But in his second race? With a new team? That seemed unlikely. Read more
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Bob Huggins didn't divulge exactly how he lit into his West Virginia team at halftime when it trailed Texas by 10 points. Read more
Nic Kjaerholt will forever be thankful for his time at Florida State. The experience he gained as an assistant coach is invaluable, and even better was the way he was treated. Read more
MORGANTOWN, W. Va. (AP) — Esmery Martinez scored 21 points and grabbed 12 rebounds and No. 19 West Virginia overcame a 38-point performance by Lauren Heard and held on to defeat TCU 81-78 on Saturday. Read more
The WVU Tech women’s basketball team had a two-fold mission Friday night. Read more
The WVU Tech men’s soccer team’s start to the spring semester is getting an earlier start than expected. Read more
The ravages of the dreaded Covid-19 pandemic seem to have no end. I’m sure all of my brothers and sisters in camo out there are as tired of all this as I am. Besides all the missed events like family gatherings and many other social events, if we are honest it has taken away from our outdoor… Read more
Woodrow Wilson checked in at No. 10 in the West Virginia Wrestling Coaches Association Class AAA preseason rankings earlier this week. Read more
Frank Reich got his man. Chris Ballard got his price (or reasonably close to it). And Carson Wentz got his preferred landing spot for a fresh start. Read more
It’s about 20 degrees as I stumble along in the dark following my two guides, Connor and Tyler. With about a gazillion stars overhead, it is still very dark, and I try not to make too much noise. The bare cornfield that we are walking in is covered in frozen snow and mud and it is hard to be quiet. Read more
Last season was a stellar one for the Woodrow Wilson girls basketball team. Read more
The workings of an abnormal season were illustrated Wednesday, and both the men's and women's teams at WVU Tech learned their postseason fate. Read more
BLUEFIELD, Va. — A name lodged in the lore of the Bluefields resurfaced on Tuesday morning as a new “branding” was revealed for Bowen Field’s Appalachian League franchise. Read more
I glanced over at Linda Powell and fidgeted in my waders. It was cold — not Artic Circle cold, but 20 degrees with a stiff wind is chilly. I was dressed for it and not in bad shape, other than a nagging feeling I might have a small leak in my right wader. Along with outdoor writer Brad Fitzp… Read more
With the start of practice put off not once but twice, it was anybody's guess where wrestlers' mindsets would be as February finally brought that anticipated day. Read more
King Solomon wrote in Ecclesiastes 3:1, "For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven." Read more
The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation, born of acts such as the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918, the Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp Act of 1934, the Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration Act of 1937 and the Federal Aid in Sport Fish Restoration Act of 1950, is the … Read more
Monday was the start of the first high school basketball practices in nearly a year after the 2020 girls state tournament and Class AA boys regionals were canceled after the start of the pandemic. Read more
The most important week of the season thus far for WVU’s young wrestling Mountaineers starts today. The team is in Stillwater, Okla., ready to participate in Oklahoma State’s Cowboy Challenge. Along with the 23rd-ranked Mountaineers and host Oklahoma State (No. 6) will be Missouri (No. 4), W… Read more
The 2020-21 men’s basketball schedule for the WVU Tech men has been far from consistent. Read more
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — Austin Reaves helped No. 12 Oklahoma pull off an impressive win on the road. Read more
bluefield, va. — The Bluefield College men’s basketball team forfeited in advance an Appalachian Athletic Conference game that was supposed to take place at Rinehardt University Thursday in Waleska, Ga. Read more
MORGANTOWN — West Virginia faces two long-time regional rivals in the first three weeks of the 2021 football season before facing as tough a Big 12 Conference opener as it could have asked for by traveling to Oklahoma to face the Sooners, according to the team’s football schedule released on… Read more
In a normal year (remember those?), it is easy to get cabin fever this time of year. Add in the stressor of trying to cope with a worldwide pandemic with sheltering at home that may even intensify the effects of cabin fever. Lately, the cold days and snow-covered ground just don’t lend thems… Read more
MORGANTOWN — The face of college baseball is changing and West Virginia University coach Randy Mazey believes it's for the better and that it may even provide the impetus for his pet project, getting the collegiate baseball season pushed back to the summer. Read more
LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — Sean McNeil scored a career-high 26 points and No. 14 West Virginia finished a regular-season sweep of seventh-ranked Texas Tech with an 82-71 victory over the Red Raiders on Tuesday night. Read more
MORGANTOWN — The comparisons creeping into West Virginia basketball fans' conversations were inevitable, with more still to come. Indeed, sooner or later, this year's team may well start to be compared to the Final Four team of 2010, for there are similarities. Read more
After getting a slight wake-up call in a loss at Rio Grande last week, snapping their 31-game River States Conference regular season win streak, the WVU Tech women have been an angry bunch defensively. Read more
It's not basketball yet, but it's still a welcome sight. Read more
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Sure, Sofia Kenin struggled in her first match as a defending champion at a Grand Slam tournament. Read more
Marty Schottenheimer’s NFL coaching career was as remarkable as it was flummoxing. Read more
MORGANTOWN — Well, you all are just going to have to wait for what was going to be the highlight of West Virginia's basketball season, as COVID-19 has stepped in again and thrown the schedule completely out of kilter. The Mountaineers' back-to-back showdown against No. 2 Baylor — originally … Read more
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