NEW ORLEANS (AP) — To call this one a yawner would be understating things. Kentucky’s blowout of East Tennessee State in the first round of the NCAA tournament was so thorough that fans were sleep...
Charleston Catholic tames Lions in tourney CHARLESTON – Gilbert’s championship hopes came to an early end Thursday at the hands of number one seed Charleston Catholic, 50-35. Gilbert matched the defending champions throughout the o...
Gilbert Lions prepare for playoff game The Lions are going into this Thursday play-off game with confidence, said Coach Walt Cline. Cline stated that he had a pyramid goal for this year’s Gilbert basketball team, sectionals, regionals ...
Tug Valley rolls past Magnolia, 69-51 CHARLESTON – Experience may not be the kindest of teachers, but most often it’s the best. The Tug Valley Panthers’ second year in familiar territory along with an impressive display from N...
Duke: No such thing as easy Final Four path DURHAM , N.C. (AP) — Just about everybody figures Duke has the easiest Final Four path of any of the four No. 1 seeds. Well, everybody but the Blue Devils. “This is the NCAA tournament,” guard ...
After trying season, Smith gets NCAA tournament bid MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Tubby Smith thought he had seen just about everything in his 19 years of coaching basketball. Then this year came along. In his third season at Minnesota, Smith lost his two b...
Cliff’s Notes: Its a proud day to be a Mountaineer “Go Mountaineers” or “Go Cats” is about all I have heard from my friends lately. That can only mean one thing – It’s March Madness. For the last couple years, I have found myself watching more a...
Ky. draws tough East bracket in NCAA tourney LEXINGTON , Ky. (AP) — Huddled with his teammates around the television in coach John Calipari’s living room, Kentucky freshman DeMarcus Cousins demonstratively expressed his disapproval over the...
WVU draws Morgan State in NCAA opener MORGANTOWN , W.Va. (AP) — Bob Huggins has led West Virginia to its highest-ever seeding in the NCAA tournament. Yet Huggins and the Mountaineers say their No. 2 seed in the East Region isn’t qu...
No. 7 West Virginia Mountaineers survive Notre Dame NEW YORK (AP) — Da’Sean Butler is on quite a roll with last-second 3-point attempts. He hit a prayer at the buzzer one night for West Virginia, then wished one to miss by Notre Dame the next....
No. 2 Kentucky downs No. 15 Tennessee 74-45 at SEC NASHVILLE , Tenn. (AP) — Kentucky is back in the Southeastern Conference tournament title game, a win away from the championship Wildcats fans see as their birthright. DeMarcus Cousins had 19 po...
Logan student named W.Va. boys player of year By RICH STEVENS Charleston Daily Mail If you ask Logan High School senior Noah Cottrill if he deserved to win the Evans Award as the state’s top boys basketball player, you might not like the ...
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Hall of Famer Merlin Olsen, who helped form one of the NFL's greatest defensive lines before embarking on a successful career in television, died Thursday after a battle wit...
NAUGATUCK - The Tug Valley Panthers staged a black-out against the Poca Dots Thursday in the stands and on the scoreboard. The rabid crowd showed their solidarity by dressing all in black to suppor...
GILBERT — Just a week before St. Patrick’s Day, the luck finally ran out on the Irish. The Huntington St. Joe Irish. That’s because the Gilbert High School boys’ basketball team knocked off St. J...
(Photo courtesy/Joe Imel, Bowling Green Daily News) The Belfry Lady Pirates were defeated by Scott County 65-54 during the first round of the Kentucky girls’ state tournament.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kobe Bryant never gets tired of being the Lakers’ closer. And though he savored the chance to stop Los Angeles’ longest losing streak in nearly three years with yet another flaw...
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Alex Rodriguez’s lawyers are setting up an interview with federal authorities as part of an investigation into a Canadian doctor who is the focus of a cross-border drug smuggling...
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. (AP) — There’s one big question facing the field at this week’s Kentucky High School Athletic Association girls’ Sweet 16: Can anyone beat Marion County? The No. 1 Knights (33-1...
LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) — On a day freshman-dominated Kentucky was honoring its seniors, sophomore Darius Miller was most responsible for making sure the Wildcats finished their season with a perfect...
PIKEVILLE, Ky. - The Pirates may have fared better Monday against Shelby Valley than the last two teams the Wildcats have played, but that’s not saying much considering SVHS’s last two games have b...
Chapmanville Tigers fell Friday night to Tug Valley in the in the Class AA Region 4 sectional championship game at Logan High School’s Willie Akers Arena. However, Chapmanville gets another chan...
Tug Valley’s Michael Evans cuts a piece of the net after Tug Valley’s sectional championship victory over Chapmanville. A full story on the game will be published in the Sunday edition of William...
MATEWAN — With seconds remaining on the clock, the raucous crowd at Matewan’s Tiger Dome made their presence heard and felt from both sides of the stands after Gilbert held on to their 1-point lead...
After defeating the Tolsia Rebels Tuesday, the Tug Valley Panthers will play a familiar opponent in the Chapmanville Tigers tonight at the Logan Field House for the sectional championship. The two...
(Photo Courtesy/TOM BOGAR) Belfry’s Thomas Varney (11) goes in for a lay-up in Belfry’s win over the Sheldon Clark Cardinals Thursday, 71-64. Varney scored 12 points for the Pirates in the regiona...
ATHENS, Ga. (AP) — John Calipari waited until Wednesday morning’s shootaround to remind his Kentucky players they were playing for more than a national championship. Sensing they needed a lift, Ca...
The Associated Press West Virginia BOYS BASKETBALL Magnolia 67, Tyler Consolidated 47 Weir 65, Oak Glen 29 AA Region 2 Section One Keyser 46, Berkeley Springs 44 AA Region 3 Section One ...
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