With the NBA draft starting Thursday evening, my wheels started turning regarding the process and WVU basketball. Of course, there’s been many memorable moments. Of late, point guards Miles “Deuce” McBride and Jevon Carter have been selected in the second round. The latter is carving out quite a nice NBA career for himself. Still fresh […]

Perhaps I shouldn’t write this. I certainly don’t want to jinx the 24-year-old right-handed pitcher. But let’s face it, Alek Manoah is trending toward becoming the first former WVU baseball player to become a Major League Baseball superstar. Not only that, but he’s also trending toward seriously cashing in after working on a $706,200 one-year […]

It was a big deal. No. Scratch that. It was a huge deal. Robert Alexander was not only the No. 1 recruit in West Virginia, he was No. 1 in the nation. He’d won the state’s Kennedy Award twice. Parade magazine named him the national Player of the Year in high school football. There wasn’t […]

With the addition of JT Daniels, interest in WVU football is up. Season ticket sales for the Mountaineers, however, is not. At least not at this point. I wrote those two paragraphs back in 2017 for the Charleston Gazette-Mail. Except the name in the first sentence was not JT Daniels, but Will Grier. I bring […]