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Rodriguez points out multiple factors for his belief WVU football will be better in 2026

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The more you look into the 2025 season for West Virginia football — Year 1 for Rich Rodriguez — the worse it gets. The Mountaineers went 4-8, won two Big 12 games and lost to Ohio, who is a Group of Five school. The last time Rodriguez's squad took the field, Texas Tech came to Morgantown and won 49-0. It was one of the worst seasons in recent years. Realistically, the season was set up for failure. Rodriguez was hired in December, so he couldn't have much of a recruiting class, and he had a mass exodus of players leave through the transfer portal. He attempted to patch holes to ...

WVU sees multiple players taken in MLB Draft

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MORGANTOWN — The final take on West Virginia’s best baseball season in school history was the Mountaineers saw four of its top players drafted into the major leagues over the weekend. As for WVU’s future roster, utility man Armani Guzman announced Sunday he was coming back to Morgantown for his senior season, while incoming transfer shortstop Owen Henne and incoming freshman pitcher Kyle Casteel were drafted. After seeing pitchers Dawson Montesa (St. Louis) and Maxx Yehl (Kansas City) get selected within the first 100 picks on Saturday, former teammates Paul Schoenfeld and Ian ...

Kim gets the engine back on track with a Scottish Open victory

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NORTH BERWICK, Scotland (AP) — Tom Kim played bogey-free during a tight race to the finish Sunday and closed with a 6-under 64 for a two-shot victory in the Scottish Open, his first PGA Tour title since the fall of 2023. It was the latest and best sign the 24-year-old Kim had his game on ...

Sinner bounces back with another Wimbledon title after his French Open meltdown

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LONDON (AP) — A year ago, it was a matter of bouncing back after wasting three match points in a devastating loss to Carlos Alcaraz in the French Open final and showing that he could still win a Grand Slam after a three-month doping ban. This year it was about demonstrating that he still has the physical toughness to win a major after a debilitating second-round meltdown at Roland Garros in a Paris heat wave Whatever gets thrown Jannik Sinner's way in the French capital — it seems lately — only makes him stronger across the Channel in London. For the second straight year, Sinner ...

Skenes wins 2nd straight start , Pirates rout Brewers

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PITTSBURGH (AP) — Paul Skenes won his second straight start after going winless for nine in a row as the Pittsburgh Pirates scored 10 runs in the fourth inning to rout the Milwaukee Brewers 14-5 Sunday and head into the All-Star break with a three-game sweep. What was slated to be a ...