BARNESVILLE – In the early 1990s the Los Angeles Rams were referred to as “Ground Chuck” because their head coach, Chuck Knox, liked to show his team’s physicality by running the ball. Barnesville (11-0) took a page out of the Rams playbook Friday night by running the ball 33 times ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
