Former West Virginia men's basketball coach Bob Huggins has entered a 12-month diversion program to resolve a drunken driving arrest. Huggins had been scheduled for a formal arraignment on Thursday. According to court records in Pittsburgh, that hearing was canceled last month after he was ...
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. (AP) — Matthew Wolff made enough birdies to offset a few mistakes Saturday for a 3-under 67 that gave him a share of the lead with David Puig at LIV Golf-Greenbrier. The third and final round is wide open on the Old White course at Greenbrier Resort, with nine ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The leader of West Virginia's shrinking Democratic minority in the state House of Delegates is stepping down. House Minority Leader Doug Skaff Jr. announced Wednesday that he will end his tenure on Aug. 8, but will remain in his seat as a Democratic lawmaker ...
Pac-12 leaders are scheduled to meet this week and Commissioner George Kliavkoff is expected to present the members with details of a long-awaited and critical potential media rights deal, a person familiar with the conference's plans told The Associated Press on Monday. The meeting is set for ...
BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Colorado's return to the Big 12 in 2024 fits right into Deion Sanders' recruiting blueprint, allowing him to get an even better foothold in the teeming Texas and Florida markets. "I think Colorado is already an exciting team on the recruiting trail with Coach Prime and ...
By ARNIE STAPLETON AP Sports Writer BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Colorado's return to the Big 12 in 2024 fits right into Deion Sanders' recruiting blueprint, allowing him to get an even better foothold in the teeming Texas and Florida markets. "I think Colorado is already an exciting team on the ...
By ARNIE STAPLETON AP Sports Writer BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Colorado is leaving the Pac-12 to return to the conference the Buffaloes jilted a dozen years ago, and the Big 12 celebrated the reunion with a two-word statement released through Commissioner Brett Yomark: "They're back." "The ...
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — While TCU went to the national championship game last season, Kansas State is the defending Big 12 champion. "A big win that probably gave us a little bit of cache as far as what we're doing is the right way, and our kids believe that what we are doing is the right ...
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia's state health officer was selected Wednesday to represent one of the hardest-hit regions of the state for drug overdoses on the board of a private foundation that will be distributing the majority of the state's more than $1 billion in opioid ...
He said he plans to remain in the rehab center "until I am cleared to return to my active coaching duties." WVU announced June 17 that Huggins had resigned. A week later, assistant coach Josh Eilert was promoted to interim head coach for the 2023-24 season. Several of Huggins' players have ...
Bob Huggins says he never resigned as West Virginia's basketball coach following a drunken-driving arrest and wants his job back, according to a letter from his attorney to the university. Huggins' Cleveland-based attorney, David A. Campbell, wrote to the university Friday that Huggins "never ...
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — Wren Baker couldn't have imagined the challenges he would face over his first seven months as West Virginia's athletic director. Baker has earned his keep — and then some — by making multiple hiring decisions since coming from North Texas. There will be at least ...
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — Josh Eilert was patient waiting to become a head coach, and he's hoping West Virginia players will show the same trait and stay around now that he has been given a chance to run the program. Eilert was selected as the interim coach at West Virginia on Saturday night ...
Assistant Josh Eilert has been selected as the interim coach at West Virginia, punctuating a hectic week after Bob Huggins resigned following a drunken driving arrest. Eilert, who has no previous head coaching experience, emerged as athletic director Wren Baker's choice to shepherd the team ...
By JOHN RABY AP Sports Writer West Virginia basketball coach Bob Huggins has resigned a day after his arrest on suspicion of drunken driving in the latest incident in a Hall of Fame career that imploded quickly. The university announced the resignation Saturday night. It came a month after ...
IRVING, Texas (AP) — The Big 12 Conference is extending its reach into Mexico, announcing plans Thursday for men's and women's basketball games to be played in Mexico City late next year while also exploring a possible football bowl game in Monterrey. Big 12 Mexico is the league's first ...
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — Austin Strickland and two relievers scattered seven hits, Nolan McCarthy drove in three runs with a homer and a double, and Kentucky eliminated West Virginia with a 10-0 victory on Sunday at the Lexington Regional. The Wildcats advanced to the championship round against ...
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Roc Riggio hit a go-ahead single in the eighth inning and Oklahoma State edged West Virginia 3-2 on Thursday in the Big 12 Tournament to give coach Josh Holliday his 400th career victory. Oklahoma State (38-17) plays in another must-win game on Friday. West Virginia ...
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Hudson White had three hits, Mason Molina pitched six strong innings and Texas Tech upset third-seeded West Virginia 6-2 on Wednesday night in the first round of the Big 12 Tournament. The sixth-seeded Red Raiders (38-19) scored in five straight innings, beginning ...