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’08 WHS grad scores 19, but Flames fall on road Staff Report Liberty U. sports: www.libertyflames.com Liberty’s furious second-half comeback sliced Auburn’s lead from 14 points to three. However, the Tigers hung on to claim a 70-64 victory Tuesday evening at Beard-Eaves Memorial Coliseum. Redshirt freshman Devon Brown spearheaded the Lady Flames’ second-half efforts, tallying…
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Staff Report UVa. sports: www.virginiasports.com Virginia head football coach Mike London has announced four additions to his coaching staff. London has retained current assistant coach Anthony Poindexter, while adding Vincent Brown, Jeff Hanson and Mike Faragalli, who all coached with him at Richmond. London will announce specific position assignments at a future date. “All…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] With AFP Audio Tom Perriello picked a great time to be a freshman congressman, what with the country in January on the verge of the next Great Depression and with so much unresolved in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the push from the electorate in the ’08…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 of Groh’s dismissal before he could…
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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…
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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…
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