Big Red senior Nolan Blackburn recently signed his letter of intent to continue his academic and baseball careers at Davis and Elkins College. Blackburn, a four-year starter for the Big Red baseball team and multi-sport standout, plans to major in special education. Joining Nolan, front, ...
GRANVILLE – Perhaps Ben Lumsden is just made for the spotlight of the NCAA tournament. West Virginia’s senior outfielder would never admit to that, in fact he kind of played the moment off Friday. Still, it was a heck of a moment for Lumsden to try and make routine. In the opening game of the NCAA tournament, Lumsden reached base four times, hit a three-run home run and scored twice in the Mountaineers’ 10-1 victory against Binghamton in front of a sold-out crowd of 4,120 inside Kendrick Family Ballpark. WVU (40-14), which reached 40 wins for the third time in four seasons, ...
DESTIN, Fla. (AP) — The Southeastern Conference is eliminating "cupcake weekend." The league's athletic directors voted at their annual spring meetings for everyone to play conference games on the second-to-last week of the regular season beginning in 2027. It means no more Football Championship Subdivision or lower-tier Football Bowl Subdivision opponents before those rivalry games that typically take place during the final week of the season. "That's the end of cupcake weekend," SEC commissioner Greg Sankey said. "We never got that one sponsored, though." SEC decision-makers ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Yet another White House construction project is underway, though this one is meant to be only temporary. Crews are erecting an octagon-shaped cage on the South Lawn that will host next month's UFC bout, helping mark the nation's 250th anniversary — and President Donald Trump 's 80th birthday. Online renderings depict what the completed, wire-mesh-fence-ringed fight space is expected to look like ahead of the June 14 event. It will be ringed by a red, white and blue stage under a towering arch featuring stars and stripes patterns and two large screens carrying ...
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Bryan Reynolds hit a two-run homer with one out in the ninth inning — after Oneil Cruz hit a mammoth shot early — to give the Pittsburgh Pirates a 6-5 victory over the Minnesota Twins on Friday night. Reynolds launched a 422-foot shot to left field off Taylor Rogers ...
CAMERON – Following a 6-5 victory over Madonna on May 20 in the winner’s bracket of the W.Va. Class A Region I baseball tournament inside WVU’s Kendrick Family Ballpark in Morgantown, Cameron found itself in the driver’s seat of the double-elimination event. However, the ...
