Financial challenges facing households in Virginia and how people respond
Residents of Virginia try to learn on their own how to spend money wisely and increase their income, even with high living expenses.
Residents of Virginia try to learn on their own how to spend money wisely and increase their income, even with high living expenses.
How low had things gotten for the women’s basketball program at Virginia four years ago? Kymora Johnson, local kid, big star, was like, nah, not interested.
Virginia, literally the last team announced into the NCAA Tournament field, the second from the First Four to win its way into the second round, is now the first from the First Four to play its way into the Sweet 16.
#9 Virginia notched its third straight ACC weekend series win with a 14-4 run-rule win over #24 Wake Forest on Sunday.
Kymora Johnson had 28 points, Sa’Myah Smith had 22, and #10 seed Virginia outlasted #7 seed Georgia, 82-73, in OT, on a day when temperatures in the Carver-Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City, which doesn’t have AC, got into the low 80s.
Ideally, Tennessee runs its offense through the duo of senior point guard Ja’Kobi Gillespie and freshman power forward Nate Ament, but Ament, a sublime talent, is limited by a gimpy right ankle.
Virginia’s 57-55 win over Arizona State in Thursday’s First Four ended at 11:17 p.m. Postgame interviews, getting on the bus, maybe they got back to the hotel by 1 a.m.
By my count, that was the third game Jacari White won on his own; getting a personal dub in an NCAA Tournament game is next level.

Home sales in Virginia were up 12 percent in February from January, with a staggering median sales price: $410,000. These numbers were reported on Friday by the Virginia Association of REALTORS® in its February 2026 Virginia Home Sales Report.
We didn’t seem to have any media out in Iowa City for the Virginia-Arizona State First Four game in the 2026 Women’s NCAA Tournament.