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West Virginia Mountaineers Football: Returning Snap Counts: Offense
WVSports.com and Rivals.com have partnered with Pro Football Focus. PFF is the best advanced statistical database in football. Throughout the season, our team of writers will utilize PFF's stats, grades and analytics to better inform West Virginia fans. This is at the returning snap counts on offense for the 2024...
WVU Hoops offers Huntington Prep point guard prospect
Coach DeVries and his staff extended a scholarship offer to 2026 guard Rassell Young on Saturday night, per a post on his X (formerly Twitter) account. The offer marks approximately the 50th high school prospect that has received a WVU scholarship offer since Darian DeVries arrived in Morgantown. Young, a...
The ten fastest players on WVU's roster (per EASports)
EASports released their new college football game for early access today and, in the video game, the Mountaineers were represented by nearly every player on the current roster. For all the video game veterans out there, the key to previous versions of this game was speed. Guys like Pat White and Steve Slaton were just as dominant in the video game as they were in real life thanks to that. So, who are the fastest guys on the Mountaineers' roster? Well, here's a rundown of the players with the highest speed rating on the team, per EASports.
Derek Clark Selected by Los Angeles Angels
West Virginia left-handed pitcher Derek Clark has been drafted by the Los Angeles Angels in the ninth round of the 2024 MLB draft. Clark transferred to WVU before last season after beginning his collegiate career at Northwood University (DII). He got a late start to his 2024 campaign due to injury but finished the season with an 8-3 record, 91 strikeouts, four complete games, one complete game shutout across 97.2 innings pitched with a 3.23 ERA.
Annual increment pay will be issued this week
West Virginia University employees who have three or more years of state-qualifying service receive annual increment pay each year in July. The annual increment amount is $60 for each full year of qualifying service. WVU will issue the annual increment pay to qualifying University employees on Friday (July 19) and...
WVU celebrates alumni and showcases robotics at Oglebay summer tour event
WHEELING, W.Va. — A Gold and Blue celebration took place Monday evening for West Virginia University alumni at Oglebay’s Pine Room by the Crispin Pool. WVU President Gordon Gee was in attendance, along with current students from the robotics team and alumni. This is a part of the...
Coach DeVries visits Best Virginia practice
The Best Virginia alumni basketball team is gearing up for the 2024 TBT Tournament which starts this coming weekend. While practicing at the alumni basketball facility, the team was visited by West Virginia men’s head basketball Coach DeVries. Coach DeVries is a few months into his tenure as the...
WVU Baseball Catcher Withdraws from MLB Draft, Returning to Mountaineers
In the midst of several of his teammates achieving their dreams of being drafted, Logan Sauve feels he still has unfinished business in college with WVU Baseball. Ahead of the final day of the 2024 MLB Draft, Sauve announced he’s withdrawing his name from the draft and returning to West Virginia for another season.
The fourteen scholarship players not on WVU Football's EASports roster
EASports College Football 25 is out, and the WVU Football roster is there for all to see. Or at least most of it. For reasons that can vary wildly, some players are not in the game. That can be due to disputes between the player and EASports, or some other reason. We're not here to speculate on that, but we are here to report on those Mountaineers that are not found in the game. The full list of fourteen scholarship players can be seen below, followed by the four walk-ons who did show up in the game, and the four made up players the game used to fill in some roster gaps.
West Virginia’s Darian DeVries Talks Difficulty of Coaching America’s Best Basketball Conference
In a recent podcast episode with CBS Sports’ Jon Rothstein, West Virginia head coach Darian DeVries discussed some of the advantages and disadvantages associated with coaching in the Big 12 Conference. DeVries spoke on the differences in coaching at a mid-major school like Drake and that of West Virginia...
Major drafted by Guardians in MLB Draft
The Cleveland Guardians drafted former WVU Baseball right-handed pitcher Aidan Major with the No. 146 pick in the MLB Draft. Major finishes his career at West Virginia with a 4.93 ERA, striking out 167 batters in 142.1 innings. Out of his 46 appearances, he started 20 games. He is the...
Morgantown man shares experience witnessing near-assassination of former President Trump
12 News spoke with Pennyslvania-native and Morgantown resident Richard Rosner on his experience attending former President Trump's campaign rally on July 13 where he was nearly assassinated.
The Rivalry Series: WVU football’s history against Louisville
Across 131 seasons on the gridiron, the West Virginia University football team has developed several rivalries that have helped forge the identity of Mountaineer football. Over the next several weeks, we’ll break down some of the biggest series in West Virginia football history. We open the series with a...
Former West Virginia Baseball Coach Randy Mazey
Former West Virginia Baseball coach Randy Mazey joins the show to discuss what kind of player the Cardinals are getting in their No. 7 overall pick JJ Wetherholt. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices.
Garrett Greene Pinpoints Biggest Weakness, Provides Lofty Personal Goal
After Neal Brown repeated what he said all spring, Garrett Greene was tasked with assessing his own game at Big 12 Media Days. And in typical Greene fashion, he was honest and echoed much of what his coach said. But in this case, Greene also went a bit further. When...
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