Category: Sports

FWST: Gary Patterson on TCU: ‘I don’t think I’ve pushed enough buttons’ BY CARLOS MENDEZ cmendez@star-telegram.com How did TCU coach Gary Patterson spend the bye week? Doing one of this favorite things. “I’m one of those guys, I’m going to press people to be the best they can be,” he said. “If I don’t think they’re…

FWST: After Big 12 vote, TCU needs to continue winning BY GIL LEBRETON glebreton@star-telegram.com One of TCU coach Gary Patterson’s favorite fair-catch signals is to stand at the podium after a victory, even a major one over a Texas or a West Virginia, and chalk it up as being one notch closer to becoming bowl-eligible. A…

http://www.gofrogs.com/sports/w-soccer/recaps/101616aaa.html GoFrogs: Soccer Falters At Oklahoma State Final Stats STILLWATER, Okla. – Oklahoma State took a 2-0 lead into the half and withstood a strong second half push by TCU to post a 3-0 victory on Sunday. Michelle Prokof led all players with six shots. The Rundown Oklahoma State struck for a pair of goals over a seven-minute…

CBS Sports: Big 12 expansion: League so unpredictable that anything could happen Monday by Dennis Dodd @dennisdoddcbs There are no absolutes in the Big 12. We’re talking about a conference that gave its best player (Baker Mayfield) an extra year of eligibility — a day after it originally decided not to. This is a conference that, without much…

NJ Advance: Stubborn Doug Pederson says he’ll stick with disastrous Halapoulivaati Vatai on Eagles’ line By Matt Lombardo | For NJ Advance Media  LANDOVER, MD — Eagles rookie quarterback Carson Wentz sat at his locker with a sizable red welt just below the back of his shoulder-blade, a fresh wound potentially resulting from being sacked five times against…

The Register-Herald: No. 12 Mountaineers now have to beware the hype By Rusty Udy Register-Herald Sports Writer Prior to Saturday’s game against Texas Tech, WVU quarterback Skyler Howard said he liked the atmosphere at AT&T Stadium in Lubbock, Texas. It was taken as a humorous reference because the fans were said to throw out tortillas…

MSN Sports: TCU Football Game Televised on ABC MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – The Big 12 Conference has announced that WVU’s Saturday, Oct. 22, Big 12 Conference football game versus TCU at Milan Puskar Stadium in Morgantown, West Virginia, will be televised at 3:30 p.m., ET, on ABC with a reverse mirror on ESPN2 in the markets that…

The Exponent Telegram: WVU needs to stay grounded while nation takes notice by Bob Hertzel For The Exponent Telegram MORGANTOWN — It was total domination, this trip West Virginia took to Lubbock, Texas, so much so that the Mountaineers should have begun it by throwing pepperoni rolls back at the fans who were flipping tortilla…

West Virginia MetroNews: Did the Mountaineers become 2016’s Team of Dustiny? By Allan Taylor in Sports, WVU Sports COMMENTARY LUBBOCK, Texas — Yup, you read that headline correctly. Just one final flat-as-forever, parched-throat jab before leaving the West Texas city where the Mountaineers’ season turned serious. Merely beating Texas Tech would’ve been a neat feather. Manhandling the Red Raiders 48-17…

FWST: Will the Big 12 pick anyone for expansion? BY JIMMY BURCH jburch@star-telegram.com The Big 12 expansion movement will take its next public step Monday when league presidents offer an update at the end of their scheduled meeting at a Dallas-Fort Worth hotel. Whether that step will be forward, backward or sideways is open to speculation.…