West Virginia Mountaineers Rumors & News

WVU baseball tops TCU, stays alive in Big 12 tournament

Register-Herald — In its second game of pool play at the Phillips 66 Big 12 Baseball Championship at Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark in Oklahoma City, the West Virginia University baseball team trumped TCU, 10-3.

Bob Huggins holds one scholarship

WVU Sports with Mike Casazza | Charleston Daily Mail — Whatever will he do with it? He told me Tuesday the Mountaineers are recruiting Daxter Miles. He, like Tavon, is a Poet and plays for former WVU guard Cyrus Jones. He can also hop. Huggins also said WVU is recruiting Shadell Millinghaus, who played in eastern New York before prepping this year at Believe Prep, [...]

WVU baseball: Mountaineers lose opening game at Big 12 Championships

Charleston Daily Mail — West Virginias first-ever appearance in the Big 12 baseball championships got off to a rocky start Thursday. The third-seeded Mountaineers fell behind in the top of the first and never recovered, losing 7-2 to the sixthseeded Kansas Jayhawks at Chic...

HERTZEL COLUMN: Jarrod West treasures time with his family

Times West Virginian — It came along too late to do me any good, but today I want to offer a very warm thank you to Jarrod West, the one-time West Virginia University basketball hero.

Mountaineers drop Big 12 Tournament opener

Register-Herald — In its first game of pool play against Kansas at the Phillips 66 Big 12 Baseball Championship, the West Virginia University baseball team was defeated, 7-2.

‘I always thought the university was missing an opportunity’

Register-Herald — West Virginia athletic director Oliver Luck has been on plenty of tours around the state. Now approaching his fourth year as AD, the former Mountaineer quarterback is used to fielding questions during the spring and summer months about the approaching football season and even a few about basketball.

Friday Feedback

WVU Sports with Mike Casazza | Charleston Daily Mail — Welcome to the Friday Feedback, which sees a reduction in playing time in the near future and is leaving this place … but will also make a comeback. Brace yourself: 11-day vacation starts May 31. Haven’t figured out how I’ll handle that, but it will be handled. Now, how you handle it, that’s up to [...]

A real email from the Fake Bob Huggins

WVU Sports with Mike Casazza | Charleston Daily Mail — Disclaimer: I am not @FakeBobHuggins. Nor am I @FauxCoachHolgs. This comes up more than you think. I think, across time, I’ve learned to be flattered by the insinuation.  Oh, who says we’re short for material in late May? You? How dare you! I give you a post inviting thoughts about how Bob Huggins might use his final [...]

WVU in eight-team Cancun Challenge field

Times West Virginian — West Virginia University’s basketball team will be in a field with seven other teams in the 2013 Men’s Cancun Challenge, played at the all-inclusive Aventura Palace resort near Playa del Carmen, Mexico.

Miners' roster has proven producers

Register-Herald — While the entire West Virginia Miners roster will be new — except for pitcher Kolin Stanley, whose arrival will be later than expected because of a bout with tendinitis — the players are definitely no strangers to high-caliber baseball.

Howley considered best all-around WVU athlete

Register-Herald — Chuck Howley’s greatest fame came in football at West Virginia University and then with the NFL’s Dallas Cowboys.

Mike Casazza: Remaining employed job No. 1 for coaches

Charleston Daily Mail — MORGANTOWN, W.Va. -- Given how college sports have evolved and how players are a little like employees who get a couple weeks of vacation, is it odd that there are three NCAA football teams and six NCAA mens basketball teams without coaches.Maybe not. ...

WVU coaches looking for talent inside state’s borders

Register-Herald — At the West Virginia University Coaches Caravan Thursday at The Resort at Glade Springs, both head football coach Dana Holgorsen and men’s basketball coach Bob Huggins spoke about the Mountain State’s love for the state’s flagship university and its athletic teams.

Geno Smith joins Roc Nation

WVU Sports with Mike Casazza | Charleston Daily Mail — Look for G! Young Smith, cruising down the Westside, Highway, doing what he likes to do, His way, eyes behind shades, That necklace the reason all his dates be blind dates. It’s official. Now brace yourself for the reaction — specifically that directed at his “Eh, I don’t really care my contract agent doesn’t have [...]

Bowls! WVU could play in one, too!

WVU Sports with Mike Casazza | Charleston Daily Mail — Always a big day in the Casazza household when the dates for the season’s bowl games are announces. Today is the day I start infuriating my wife and our families and begin figuring out where the heck I’m going to be for Christmas and/or New Year’s — and I’m not going to lie to you … [...]

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