Transcript: UVa. welcomes Mike London

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  Staff UVa. sports: www.virginiasports.com CRAIG LITTLEPAGE (director of athletics): Good afternoon, everybody. And we appreciate your taking time to be with us this afternoon to conduct some very important business as it relates to our football program. I want to reiterate the message that Jim brought us from President Casteen. He’s deeply disappointed that…

Focus | Verga makes case for GOP nomination in Fifth

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   Story by Chris Graham [email protected] What’s wrong with America, if you ask Laurence Verga, isn’t just with the direction that the Obama administration and the Democratic Congress is taking, but what their Republican predecessors did, or rather didn’t do, ahead of them. “One of the reasons our country is in the challenged position it…

Angels among us

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Story by Chris Graham [email protected]   The angel came to Mary Martin not in a vision, but on the phone. “We’re putting an addition on the back of your house, and you can’t say no,” the angel told Mary, mother of Joseph, in our modern-day retelling of the Christmas story an active Waynesboro 12-year-old who…

Live Blog | Penn State-UVa.

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   Staff UVa. sports: www.virginiasports.com ACCVirginia.com will be live at tonight’s ACC-Big 10 Challenge matchup pitting Penn State and UVa. at the John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville. Contributor Scott German will be reporting from courtside. Editor Chris Graham will be joining in from the home office due to a touch of the flu bug…

Focus | The next UVa. football coach

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  Column by Chris Graham [email protected] Before we get to the next UVa. football coach topic, I have a commentary on a point raised in Daily Progress sports editor Jerry Ratcliffe’s column on the sacking of Al Groh. Ratcliffe wrote that it was “bush league” for the athletics department to have informed the news media…

Vision and brain injury

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  Column by Chris DeWald Columns, letters: [email protected] A person who has suffered a traumatic brain injury (TBI) or cerebral vascular accident (CVA) may often experience difficulties with balance, spatial orientation, coordination, cognitive function, and speech. In most cases, a referral for visual consultation only occurs if there’s an injury to an eye or if…

Poetic ending?

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Groh goes out in verse Story by Chris Graham Photos by Mark Miller With AFP Audio A reporter’s question on Al Groh’s status at the University of Virginia following the Cavs’ 42-13 loss to in-state rival Virginia Tech prompted the nine-year head football coach to pull out a piece of paper. True to form, the…

Live Blog | UVa.-Virginia Tech

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The day is here, and ACCVirginia.com will be live in Scott Stadium in Charlottesville for the annual in-state rivalry game between the University of Virginia Cavaliers and the Virginia Tech Hokies. Kickoff is set for 3:30 p.m. The game is being broadcast on ABC-TV. Editor Chris Graham will be live in the press box providing…

Vols knock off UVa. women in front of record crowd

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Story by Scott German A combination of two Hall of Fame basketball coaches and free hotdogs and sodas helped the University of Virginia establish a new women’s single-game attendance record of 11,895 here Sunday afternoon in John Paul Jones Arena. Unfortunately most of fans went home disappointed as No. 6 Tennessee Vols (3-0) rode the…

Focus | Cavs grow in 76-55 win over Oral Roberts

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Story by Chris Graham With AFP Audio Virginia and Oral Roberts traded baskets for 10 minutes. Then the Cavs put the clamps down. “I think the adjustments were solid. The guys played a little harder and smarter,” coach Tony Bennett said after UVa.’s 76-55 win over Oral Roberts on Saturday in Charlottesville. It was the…