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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] I wanted to learn more about what Waynesboro could be facing if it follows through the very, very preliminary plans that have been put forth regarding the possible location of a minor-league baseball team in the River City. That’s how I came across Gary Hodge and his 20-year effort to…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] UVa. guard Sharnee Zoll and JMU guard Tamera Young are among the 20 players invited to the 2008 WNBA Draft. Zoll, a 5-7 point guard, and Young, a 6-2 shooting guard, will join luminaries including Tennessee center Candice Parker, LSU star Sylvia Fowles and ACC standouts Crystal Langhorne and Laura…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Listen to today’s “SportsDominion Show,” featuring comments from Virginia football coach Al Groh about his team’s spring-practice period. Show Length: 8:42. It has been widely assumed that Peter Lalich will be the starting quarterback at UVa. next fall now that Jameel Sewell is no longer a part of the program…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] I remember telling a 1970s-era UVa. basketball player that I was interviewing for the book Mad About U: Four Decades of Basketball at University Hall that I had tracked down Gus Gerard, the Cavalier star who famously left school early for the ABA just before what would have been his…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Staunton artist Leslie Banta will be presenting two exhibits in Charlottesville this weekend. Large landscapes and new abstract work from Banta will be on display at The Barn Swallow as part of the gallery’s “Blooms” show. A reception will be held on Saturday from 1-3 p.m. Banta will be at…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] An Afton teen in custody in connection with two shootings in Waynesboro early Thursday morning is considered a suspect in a series of shootings that were reported along a 10-mile stretch of Interstate 64 in Albemarle County. Slade Woodson, 19, was taken into custody upon the execution of a search…
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Best Seat in the House column by Chris Graham [email protected] Was it really so bad that Virginia and Virginia Tech both lost Wednesday night? Um … Well, consider UVa. coach Dave Leitao’s response to comments from Bradley guard Jeremy Crouch, who suggested that the Braves were able to confuse the Cavs defense in their 96-85…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] A shooting at an unoccupied vehicle at the DuPont Community Credit Union branch on Lucy Lane in Waynesboro may or may not be connected to a series of shootings just up Interstate 64 in Albemarle County. Waynesboro police chief Doug Davis confirmed details of the shooting, which according to a…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Virginia State Police are looking for multiple suspects in connection with a series of shootings on a stretch of Interstate 64 in Western Albemarle County that sent two people to the hospital. “We believe it’s more than one suspect. Now, that doesn’t mean that they were firing simultaneously at these…
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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham [email protected] I know I’ve done TV and radio for years and years, but that doesn’t mean that I don’t get nervous when … “Quiet on the set!” Ahem, I’m getting interviewed. And that was the case earlier today in Charlottesville, when I was in the crosshairs on “Comcast…
