Tim Stephens

2 weeks ago | wvgazettemail.com | Zack Klemme |Tim Stephens

Wyatt Milum suspected he might wind up with the Jacksonville Jaguars. "I was just sitting around with my family and friends waiting," said Milum, a former Spring Valley High School and West Virginia University star selected by Jacksonville in the third round of the NFL draft last week. "I had talked to Jacksonville at the Senior Bowl. I really didn't know, but I can't think of a better place than Jacksonville.

1 month ago | wvgazettemail.com | Tim Stephens |Rick Elmore |Jarrid McCormick

The Spring Mills-Spring Valley boys basketball game was the equivalent of a medical procedure in which the operation was a success, but the patient didn’t make it. The fourth-seeded Timberwolves nearly matched the bigger Cardinals inside, being outscored just 26-24 in the paint in Friday’s WVSSAC Class AAAA state tournament semifinal at the Charleston Coliseum & Convention Center.

2 months ago | wvgazettemail.com | Tim Stephens |Tyler Kennett

HUNTINGTON — Lead the league in scoring and you’ll more likely than not be named to the all-conference team. Aislynn Hayes did just that. The Marshall University senior guard averaged 17.4 points per game this regular season and was rewarded Monday by being named All-Sun Belt Conference first team in women’s basketball. Hayes, a native of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, also averaged 4.6 rebounds, 2.9 assists and 1.0 steals per contest and made 37.3% of her 3-point shots.