James Hairston received a phone call from a number he didn’t recognize and was skeptical. “I didn’t really know the number that was calling me,” said Hairston, who decided not to answer. The number was from Fayette County Hall of Fame co-founder George Von Benko informing him he had ...
West Virginia's 2026 football recruiting class is off to a hot start, even before the official start of recruiting season. The Mountaineers added five recruits for the class of 2026 on Monday, bringing the total for the 2026 class to six in the span of two days. Starting off the day, JMU ...
BATON ROUGE, La. -- West Virginia baseball’s quest to kick down the Omaha, Neb. door will have to wait another year. For the second straight season, the Mountaineers dropped both games of a road super regional and ended the season one round shy of their first College World Series in ...
BATON ROUGE, La. -- Even on a day with a heat index of 103 degrees, it snowballed quickly for the 24th-ranked West Virginia baseball team. The Mountaineers led 1-0 in the fourth inning of Game 1 of the Baton Rouge Super Regional, but seven runs in the span of as many batters turned the series ...
Candace John helped the Laurel Highlands girls basketball team reach heights it had never achieved before and wound up as the Fillies’ all-time leading scorer with 1,734 points. The 1999 LH graduate is a member of the Fayette County Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2025 and isn’t shy when ...
Rick Hauger is likely best known for guiding Laurel Highlands to a pair of WPIAL boys basketball championships. There was another championship the now-retired coach won that he also holds dear to his heart. Hauger led Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus to the 1983 Penn State University ...
