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MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Devon Dampier threw a career-high four touchdown passes and ran for another score to lead Utah to a 48-14 win over West Virginia on Saturday. Dampier bounced back from a lopsided home loss to Texas Tech last week in which he didn’t thrown a touchdown pass, was...

Both Utah and West Virginia are licking their wounds entering Saturday’s showdown in Morgantown, W.Va., after suffering one-sided losses to open Big 12 play. The Utes (3-1, 0-1 Big 12) are just 2-8 in league games since joining the Big 12 last season. Utah sputtered on both sides of the...

The historic WVU Coliseum will have a new name for the first time in 55 years, West Virginia University announced Thursday. It will now be known as the Hope Coliseum after the university entered into a 10-year partnership with Hope Gas. The partnership covers naming rights, sponsorship and future donations...

Whenever a college football team drops a game in a way Pitt lost at West Virginia, the topic invariably comes up about how the players will — or won’t — bounce back emotionally when they have to take the field next time out. For Pitt, that’ll be Saturday against Louisville...

LAWRENCE, Kan. — Jalon Daniels threw three touchdown passes, Emmanuel Henderson returned a kickoff 94 yards for a TD and Kansas beat West Virginia, 41-10, on Saturday night in the Big 12 opener for both teams. Leshon Williams had 19 carries for 129 yards, which included a 62-yard TD to...

West Virginia (2-1) at Kansas (2-1) Sept. 20 at 6 p.m. BetMGM College Football Odds Opening Line: Kansas by 13.5. Against the spread: Kansas 1-2, West Virginia 2-1. How to watch: Fox Sports 1 Key stats Kansas offense Overall: 413.3 yards per game (60th in FBS) Passing: 248.3 yards per...

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — West Virginia’s disdain for Pitt was evident at virtually every corner before, during and after Saturday’s Backyard Brawl, where an overflow crowd of mainly WVU fans crammed into Mountaineer Field at Milan Puskar Stadium to witness a classic comeback victory by the Mountaineers. Think Pitt’s home at...

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — More than enough Backyard Brawls (108 after Saturday’s contest at Milan Puskar Stadium, to be exact) have been played to confidently make some generalizations about Pitt and West Virginia’s historic rivalry. A good rule of thumb for when the Panthers and Mountaineers meet is to expect the...

One day before the 108th installment of the Backyard Brawl between Pitt and West Virginia, both schools announced an extension of the rivalry for four years from 2033-36. Those four games will be split between Acrisure and Milan Puskar stadiums, with Pitt hosting WVU on Sept. 10, 2033, and Sept....

The message appeared to have multiple layers in its intent from Pat Narduzzi. As the Pitt football coach stood at his podium to open his Monday morning press conference before this Saturday’s game at West Virginia, he read a list of results from Week 1 of the college football season....

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — West Virginia running back Jahiem White and wide receiver Jaden Bray will miss the rest of the season with injuries, coach Rich Rodriguez said Monday. Rodriguez announced on his weekly radio show that White will undergo surgery later this week, and Bray will require surgery at some...

Monday’s “First Call” features Justin Fields’ postgame comments about the Steelers’ defense. We check in on how Russell Wilson did for New York’s other team. Odds are out for the Backyard Brawl, but not yet for Penn State’s next game. And the Pirates head to the Beltway for a week....

ATHENS, Ohio — Parker Navarro threw one touchdown pass, and Ohio overcame his three interceptions and held on to beat West Virginia, 17-10, on Saturday. Ohio (1-1) of the Mid-American Conference beat a Big 12 opponent for the second time in three years. West Virginia (1-1) lost preseason all-Big 12...

West Virginia (1-0) at Ohio (0-1) Sept. 6 at 4 p.m. EDT. How to watch: ESPNU Key stats West Virginia Offense Overall: 625.0 yards per game (3rd in FBS) Passing: 232.0 yards per game (61st) Rushing: 393.0 yards per game (3rd) Scoring: 45.0 points per game (23rd) West Virginia Defense...

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — A “Tiger” was on the loose Saturday at West Virginia. When Robert Morris coach Bernard Clark met the media after the Colonials’ season-opening 45-3 loss to the Mountaineers, he wasn’t in the mood for moral victories. “It’s just not in my DNA,” said Clark, the former Orange...

Robert Morris at West Virginia Saturday, 2 p.m. Eastern BetMGM College Football Odds: West Virginia by 38 1/2. How to watch: ESPN+ Key stats West Virginia (2024) Overall offense: 404.0 yards per game (53rd in FBS) Passing: 210.3 yards per game (87th) Rushing: 193.7 yards per game (27th) Scoring: 29.2...

Alabama and West Virginia mutually agreed to cancel their home-and-home series that had been scheduled for 2026 and 2027, the schools announced Tuesday. Alabama said it was making adjustments to its nonconference schedule in response to last week’s announcement that the SEC would go from playing eight to nine league...

Pat McAfee, who was one of the top kickers and punters in the Big East Conference, became an All-Pro in the NFL and is now a sports media star, will join fellow West Virginia greats in the latest class of the school’s Sports Hall of Fame. Wren Baker, WVU’s vice...

ESPN’s Pat McAfee apologized to a University of Mississippi student Wednesday after he advanced a viral story about the woman’s sex life during an episode of his show in February. The rumor turned out to be untrue. The 19-year-old and her family ended up posting a response to the internet...

Jack Kartsonas prefers to dominate one task at a time. On a recent Wednesday, the former West Virginia University standout and Fox Chapel native was only worried about the quality of the steak he was cooking and not about the challenge of leaping into minor league baseball. Kartsonas, who played...

Jack Kartsonas did not hear his name called during the MLB Draft on Sunday or Monday, but, soon after, he was ready to put pen to paper. The West Virginia pitcher and Fox Chapel native agreed to a free agent contract with the Tampa Bay Rays after the draft. Kartsonas,...

It appears that the NCAA Division I Basketball Tournaments will not expand. For now. Thankfully. Although it does seem like just a matter of time before that happens. “The still viable outcomes include the tournaments remaining at 68 teams or expanding the fields to either 72 or 76 teams in...

Nearly seven months after he was hired, Rich Rodriguez is still beaming about his return to West Virginia. Rodriguez originally coached for the Mountaineers from 2001-07, leading them to three straight AP top-10 finishes from 2005-07. “I’m blessed, and I’m fortunate because this doesn’t happen very often,” Rodriguez said at...