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MORGANTOWN — Through the first four games of West Virginia’s football season, a great deal of angst has been expressed over the Mountaineer defense as WVU has gotten off to a 2-2 start.

MORGANTOWN — With a week of rest and rehab under their belts, the 2-2 West Virginia football team is preparing for Saturday’s Big 12 Conference showdown at 3-2 Oklahoma State (4 p.m. on ESPN2).

MORGANTOWN — After a weekend without West Virginia football as September melted into October, a full third of the Mountaineers regular season is over without so much as a defining moment or an indication if they are fish or fowl.

MORGANTOWN — One of the great joys of sports today is to attend a baseball game at PNC Park in Pittsburgh, an old-style stadium situated on the Allegheny River with a backdrop of downtown Pittsburgh laid out before you, sitting in an area of bars and restaurants and hotels.

MORGANTOWN — The game was hanging in the balance. West Virginia was clinging to a 32-28 lead, but Kansas had the ball and was on the move in the final 20 seconds.

MORGANTOWN — Coaches typically have some basic philosophies or tenets that lie at the core of their programs.

MORGANTOWN — A year ago West Virginia’s women’s basketball team, under its third coach in three years in Mark Kellogg, came out of nowhere and became a factor in Big 12 and national play.

MORGANTOWN — The open week in West Virginia’s football schedule gives the 2-2 Mountaineers an opportunity to catch their breath, as the 2024 season is one-third completed.

MORGANTOWN — Following West Virginia’s 32-28 win over Kansas, Mountaineers coach Neal Brown joked that no one has mentioned the excellence with which WVU has operated in end-of half situations and its use of timeouts.

MORGANTOWN — If heading into a game opposing defenses are caught off-guard trying to figure out West Virginia’s unpredictable quarterback, Garrett Greene, Mountaineer coach Neal Brown knows the feeling.

MORGANTOWN — This week certainly isn’t the first time the 2024-25 Mountaineer men’s basketball team has been on the court together.

MORGANTOWN — If they were going to give out footballs to the heroes of West Virginia’s stunning fourth-quarter rally that produced what arguably was the most critical win of Neal Brown’s five-plus years as the Mountaineers’ coach, they probably would have had to dig deeply into the equipment room.

MORGANTOWN — Garrett Greene threw a 15-yard touchdown pass to Rodney Gallagher with 26 seconds left to lift West Virginia to a 32-28 victory over Kansas in their Big 12 opener Saturday.

Preseason expectations followed by a slow start are not a good mix, but that’s exactly where Neal Brown’s West Virginia University football team stands as it prepares for the beginning of Big 12 play this week.

It hasn’t been an ideal season for the West Virginia Mountaineers as they enter 1-2.

MORGANTOWN — Mark Twain is quoted as saying, “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies and statistics.�

MORGANTOWN — West Virginia offensive lineman Brandon Yates has a message for those who have thrown in the towel on the Mountaineers’ football season.

MORGANTOWN — It was something you don’t see very often: a Power Four conference giving one of its weekly awards to a player from a losing team, yet that is how West Virginia’s T.J. Jackson broke into the Big 12’s consciousness this week.

MORGANTOWN — Instead of scholarship limits, NCAA Division I sports programs will likely face roster limits in the future.

MORGANTOWN — Officiating is the most inexact of sciences, and the intrusion upon it by technology and slow-motion replay has done nothing to help the reputations of the people who perform it in any sport.

MORGANTOWN — Despite West Virginia’s early-season defensive struggles, Mountaineers defensive coordinator Jordan Lesley said he isn’t giving up on this unit.

MORGANTOWN — While West Virginia could not deliver the knockout punch to put Pitt away in the 107th Backyard Brawl at Acrisure Stadium on Saturday, allowing the Panthers to crawl up off the canvas to score a 38-34 victory with two touchdowns in the final four minutes of play, the Mountaineer…