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Hilltoppers Welcome Charleston For Senior Day Showdown

Local Sports November 7, 2026

WEST LIBERTY — The West Liberty University football team returns home Saturday for its final regular-season game at West Family Stadium, hosting Charleston in a key Mountain East Conference matchup on Senior Day. Kickoff is scheduled for 1 p.m., with the Hilltoppers set to recognize 23 members of the program. West Liberty enters the weekend at 7-2 overall and 5-1 in MEC play, sitting atop the conference standings with two regular-season games remaining. Charleston comes to West Liberty at 4-5 overall and 4-2 in conference play, tied for second in the standings with Wheeling. The ...

Steelers Running Back Jaylen Warren Spent Years Deflecting Attention. Now He's At The Center Of It

Local Sports November 7, 2026

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Jaylen Warren's legs never stop moving. Which way they take the relentlessly upbeat Pittsburgh Steelers running back during a given play is a mystery, sometimes even to Warren himself. Take what looked like a give-up call during last Sunday’s 27-6 victory over Cleveland ...

Wheeling Central's Season Closes With Tough Loss To St. Joseph Central

Local Sports November 6, 2026

BECKLEY -- For 43 minutes, the Wheeling Central Catholic Maroon Knights boys' soccer team held firm to its game plan against top-seeded St. Joseph Central in the Class AA-A semifinal match in the West Virginia Secondary Schools Activities Commission state soccer championships. That changed ...

Maroon Knights Volleyball Sweeps Their Way To State Tournament

Local Sports November 6, 2026

WHEELING — There were no upsets on-tap Thursday night as the Wheeling Central Maroon Knights, seeded atop the WVSSAC Class AA Region 1 volleyball tournament, took down No. 4 Tyler in a regional co-final to advance to next week’s state volleyball tournament in Charleston. The Maroon ...

Election Over, The Clock Starts Ticking Again On Landmark College Sports Bill In Lame-Duck House

Local Sports November 6, 2026

Next week in Congress, the clock starts ticking on a groundbreaking bill designed to overhaul college sports with nobody quite sure how an overwhelming wave of election-night victories for Democrats across the country will reset the debate. Still run by Republicans for a lame-duck session ...

Fantastic Martins Ferry Volleyball Season Ends In Regional Semifinal

Local Sports November 6, 2026

CAMBRIDGE – It’s been said numerous times before that all good things have to come to an end sooner or later. For the Martins Ferry volleyball team it was the former, unfortunately. The Purple Riders (24-2) dropped a 25-22, 25-23 and 25-11 decision to Meadowbrook (24-1) Thursday night ...