WVU opens with 31-0 victory
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — West Virginia scored twice in 65 seconds in the middle of the second half and quarterback Geno Smith passed for 216 yards and two touchdowns in his first start as the 25th-ranked Mountaineers defeated Coastal Carolina, 31-0, before 57,862 at Mountaineer Field Saturday. The crowd was the smallest for a home-opener since [...]
Bowden Finally Gets Ring
Thirty four years later Bobby Bowden says he has finally received his 1975 Peach Bowl ring. An anonymous donor provided the funds for the rings that were presented to ’75 team members during a private ceremony before West Virginia’s football game against East Carolina in September. Shortly after that, Bowden got his ring in the [...]
Playing with more at stake helped WVU?
MORGANTOWN — The tipoff, really, came out of Las Vegas, along with the betting line on Friday night’s Backyard Brawl. You had the game listed anywhere from a pick to Pitt by just 2 points, which was showing a total lack of respect for the Panthers. True, they were on the road, but they had [...]
Starkey: Pitt must rebound fast
MORGANTOWN, W. Va. — No, West Virginia didn’t erase the memory of “13-9″ on Friday night. That could take centuries. But the Mountaineers gave their revenge-minded fans a feel-good moment when Tyler Bitancurt kicked a 43-yard field goal as time expired to beat Pitt, 19-16, in the 102nd Backyard Brawl. “That,” said WVU coach Bill [...]
Tickets remain for WVU-Pitt
MORGANTOWN – Tickets remain on sale for Friday night’s West Virginia-Pitt football game at Mountaineer Field. Kickoff for the “Backyard Brawl” is at 7 o’clock. WVU athletics officials said late Wednesday that about 800 tickets remain, at $50 each, and may be purchased online today and Friday until noon at WVUGame.com. The ticket office is [...]
Times Set for Dec. 5 WVU Events
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – The West Virginia-Rutgers football game on Saturday, Dec. 5, at Rutgers Stadium in Piscataway, N.J., will be played at noon, and the men’s basketball home exhibition game with the University of Charleston will be played at 7 p.m. The network for the football game, ESPN or ESPN2, will be determined after the [...]
WVU-Rutgers gets noon kickoff on ESPN or ESPN2
West Virginia’s final football game of the regular season will go head-to-head on television with the Big East Conference’s de-facto title game on what is known as “Championship Saturday.” ESPN and the Big East announced Wednesday that WVU’s Dec. 5 game at Rutgers will have a noon kickoff and be telecast by ESPN or ESPN2. [...]
Reversal helps ruin WVU’s night
CINCINNATI — Chances are, hopefully, you are too young to remember Roone Arledge, but without him you well might not have watched last night’s football game in Cincinnati between West Virginia University and Bearcats. If Abner Doubleday invented baseball, if Thomas Edison gave us the electric light bulb, if Alexander Graham Bell gave us the [...]
WVU finds haunted house at South Florida
MORGANTOWN — Boo! That was the word being uttered by fans around West Virginia a half hour or so after the final play was run in the Mountaineers’ football game at South Florida Friday night, and it had nothing to do with Halloween. Talk about your season turning into a pumpkin. Final score: South Florida [...]
NCAA Fridays hurting prep football
MORGANTOWN — West Virginia’s football game at South Florida will be the first of three Friday night appearances. It will be the most ever for the Mountaineers in one season. While they haven’t had to play any of those at home, it’s probably just a matter of time before they will have to do that. [...]
