West Virginia will host a “Stripe the Stadium” promotion when Penn State visits Milan Puskar Stadium for the regular-season opener Aug. 31. Nittany Lions coach James Franklin said he expects much more from the Mountaineers.
“It’s a hornet’s nest,” Franklin told Big Ten Network at the Big Ten Football Media Days on Wednesday. “They take a lot of pride in their football team. They’ve got no pro team, so it’s all about West Virginia, all about Morgantown. So it will be a great environment to play in.”
Penn State is playing at West Virginia for the first time since 1992, and ticket prices reflect anticipation for the game. Secondary-market tickets top $200, and West Virginia has said that single-game tickets will not be available. Fans who want to attend must buy a three-game ticket package or venture into the resale market.
West Virginia recently announced its theme games for the season, designating Penn State as its “Stripe the Stadium” opponent. West Virginia is encouraging fans in alternating sections to wear blue and gold for the game, which kicks off at noon ET on FOX. West Virginia provided a Stripe the Stadium map for fans attending.
However, it appears that Penn State won’t see West Virginia’s new “Coal Rush” alternate uniform. The program announced that it will debut the “highly anticipated Coal Rush” uniforms in a Big 12 game against either Kansas, Iowa State, Kansas State or Baylor.
Penn State has fared well at West Virginia, bringing a 17-6-1 road record to the game. West Virginia coach Neal Brown called the Penn State game huge for both his program and the Big 12.
“It’s not just a big game for West Virginia,” Brown said at Big 12 Football Media Days. “It’s a big game for our league, and it’s an opportunity for our league and this new Big 12, without a couple schools that have been a part of the Big 12 for a long time in that first weekend on a marquee stage, to show what kind of football that we play in this league.”
Penn State defeated West Virginia 38-15 last season at Beaver Stadium in the first game of the two-game rivalry renewal series.
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Biden administration Drug Czar Dr. Rahul Gupta said he’s impressed with the newly expanded clinic at West Virginia Health Right on Charleston’s East End.
Gupta, the former Kanawha-Charleston Health Department director and former state Chief Health Officer, got a tour of the recently expanded space during a visit to Charleston Thursday.
The variety of help being offered there is the most impressive thing, Gupta said.
“It’s a one-stop-shop where you can get your vision, your dental and your mental and physical health while at the same time learn how to cook, how to exercise, get all of those services at one place,” Gupta said.
Gupta, whose official title is director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, knows about Health Right. He’s been a volunteer there for 15 years.
Health Right CEO Angie Settle told MetroNews last month the project has been a long time coming to provide additional care to underserved populations.
“It’s been in the planning and in the works since 2019 with a lot of fundraising going on,” she said.
Settle said the expansion is projected to allow them to serve over 60,000 patients annually. Currently the clinic serves over 44,000 patients annually. The number has increased from 15,000 in 2014 when Settle took over as CEO.
Settle said the clinic has lacked a lot of space since then. There’s a lot more room now.
“It’s just really additional treatment space,” Settle said. “We have a whole wing for behavioral health and substance use disorder. We’ve added medical and specialty spaces, vision space, dental space.”
Gupta said another asset about the new clinic is that it deals with both sides of substance use disorder.
“It’s something that for so many years we’ve figured out how to separate the head from the body but this facility here is bringing together and reconnecting the importance of substance use disorder and mental health with physical health,” he said.
Gupta said it’s critical to have such integration.
Gupta has fought the opioid epidemic on the state and national level. He said when he visits facilities like Health Right it restores his hope.
“We are need to stay hopeful that it is possible to help people who suffer from addiction. It is possible to prevent addiction from happening in the first place and when people are in recovery to help them find their success,” he said.
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