This weekend, the 2026 MLB Draft will take place, and we will hear several West Virginia Mountaineers hear their name called, and for some of them, they will have a tough decision to make — sign or come back to Morgantown for another year.
There are few rivalries in college football, if any, where there is more hatred than what exists between West Virginia and Pitt. The two can't stand each other, and it doesn't matter how many years a player is removed from playing in the game; that feeling never goes away.
The 2026 MLB First-Year Player Draft is set to begin on Saturday with the first four rounds, while day two will be rounds 5-20. So by the end of the weekend, we'll know which former, present, and future West Virginia Mountaineers are selected.
September 5th, 2026, will be a special day in the history of West Virginia football as the Mountaineers will hold a ceremony on the day of their season opener against Coastal Carolina to unofficially retire Pat White's No 5 jersey.
Every year, you can usually point to a few games on the schedule and say, " Those are the ones that will determine if the year will be considered a success or not." For West Virginia, I see three of them in 2026.
West Virginia in the Big 12 has never been an ideal fit in the geographical sense. Even with the recent additions of Cincinnati and UCF, the Mountaineers would be better suited to be in one of the other three Power Four leagues, making road trips more feasible for fans and less expensive for the athletic department.
Coming into the 2025 season, West Virginia offensive lineman Nick Krahe had logged a grand total of 30 in-game snaps. He wasn't necessarily thrown into the fire in 2026 because he had a couple of years of development under the previous staff, so Rich Rodriguez and Co.
Earlier this offseason, The Field of 68's Rocco Miller reported that West Virginia and North Carolina were "finalizing an agreement" to play a neutral site game in Charlotte on Black Friday, as part of the 2nd annual Dick Vitale Invitational.
The West Virginia Mountaineers recently updated their roster for the 2026 season, and redshirt freshman offensive lineman Phillip Bowser is nowhere to be found, spelling the end of his time in Morgantown.
As expected, Rich Rodriguez did not include a preseason depth chart in this year's WVU football media guide, which was released on Tuesday morning, ahead of Big 12 Media Days in Frisco.
Big 12 Media Days will get started on Tuesday, so today, the conference released its preseason All-Big 12 team, as voted on by the media. West Virginia has two players represented, both on the offensive side of the ball in running back Cam Cook and fullback Kayden Luke.
This week, Rich Rodriguez and a few Mountaineers will be headed to Frisco, Texas to participate in Big 12 Media Days. The event will begin tomorrow, but the Mountaineers won't be available to speak until Wednesday.
If you haven't purchased EA Sports' College Football 27 video game yet and you're a West Virginia fan, all I'm saying is you might want to consider it.
Baseball and the 4th of July. It goes together so well, and perhaps one day, we will see a pair of West Virginia Mountaineers sporting the red, white, and blue for Team USA in the Olympics (set to return in 2028) or the World Baseball Classic.
The one area West Virginia wasn't highly productive in during the 2026 season was putting baseballs over the fence. As a team, the Mountaineers hit 58 home runs on the year with Gavin Kelly leading the way, belting 19 out of the park.
Three more transfer portal commits have put pen to paper, officially becoming Mountaineers. To begin the month of July, West Virginia announced the signings of outfielder Chase Ecker and left-handed pitchers Colton Hartman and Robert Satin.
West Virginia baseball isn't some overnight success story. In fact, it's far from it. The success they have experienced over the past three years isn't just some random blip on the radar, either.
A key Ross Hodge recruit already has West Virginia on the map. Incoming Mountaineers freshman Miles Sadler is listed No. 30 in The Athletic’s Way-too-early mock 2027 NBA Draft.
Rich Rodriguez and West Virginia were both key players at the College World Series. The Mountaineer baseball squad, led by Steve Sabins, made its first-ever
OMAHA, NE — Omaha is a place where legends are made. It’s also the land of unsung heroes like North Carolina starter Ryan Lynch, who grinded through the first 4.2 innings of the Tar Heels’ 5-2 win over West Virginia on Sunday night.
The West Virginia Mountaineers appear to be making the most of their first College World Series appearance in school history.
The West Virginia Mountaineers conquered many first-time feats in the 2026 season, hosting their first Super Regional for the Morgantown faithful, and of course, making their first program appearance in Omaha.
This is peak West Virginia. One Mountaineers fan in a Davy Crockett coonskin cap stood in the stands of Kendrick Family Ballpark with a raccoon skin to put a hex on Cal Poly pitchers in the Morgantown Super Regional.
West Virginia advanced to the Men's College World Series for the first time in program history, but unfortunately the occasion was not as joyous as it could have been for some Mountaineers fans.
Ethan Lawson, an offensive lineman from the Class of 2027, committed to West Virginia University (WVU) by sharing a video of himself tearing off his shirt in front of a burning couch, with “Take Me Home, Country Roads” playing in the background.
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