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Best Seat in the House column by Chris Graham [email protected] I was about to write a column giving some bigtime praise to UVa. point guard Sean Singletary for his gallant effort Wednesday night in College Park … When an e-mail jolted me back to reality. “Every aspect of this team’s game (with one obvious exception)…
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The SportsDominion is live at the John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville for today’s ACC game between Georgia Tech and Virginia. SportsDominion correspondent Scott German is at JPJ and will provide commentary and analysis from the arena after the game. SD editor Chris Graham will lead today’s live blog. Feel free to join in with…
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Winners and Losers column by Chris Graham [email protected] WINNER: Virginia Tech wins in Charlottesville for the first time since before I was born I had no idea it had been that long, incidentally. And I like that Jeff Allen kid. He’s going to be a star. ASCENDING: Virginia Tech DESCENDING: Virginia, obviously LOSER: Everybody is…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] One basket, at the buzzer. A one-point margin. Razorthin, that one was. And the two teams left headed in the most opposite of opposite directions. “I think we’re real dangerous. We came in, and everybody called us an underdog, basically. Everybody think we’re just a team on the schedule, but…
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Column by Scott German Virginia basketball coach Dave Leitao’s postgame press conference following Wednesday night’s gut wrenching 70-69 loss to Virginia Tech lasted just short of five minutes. Leitao was obviously in no mood to discuss, much less answer questions concerning his club’s latest loss.
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] It’s not the football game, but … It is still Virginia–Virginia Tech. And at least one of the teams in Wednesday night’s game in Charlottesville will be pumped a little more than usual heading in. “Playing Virginia Tech is always a challenge for us as it would be for both…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Some changes are in store at WMRA. WMRA-90.7FM will become the home of a host of NPR-produced news and culture shows that are currently airing on sister station WEMC-91.7FM. “Many listeners have been asking us for NPR’s ‘Fresh Air,’ ‘Talk of the Nation’ and other information programs,” said Tom DuVal,…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] I confess – I’m a weather junkie, no, a weather nerd. I know the lingo like you might know football lingo or politics parlor talk. Embedded thunderstorms – yes. Coastal lows that have the potential to be a Nor’easter. I’m there. I get jazzed up over Alberta Clippers. And can’t…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] It wasn’t that there was much left downtown, but Phil Lemons knew that whatever traffic there had been before the West End took off with the opening of Wal-Mart in Waynesboro in 2003 was pretty much going, going, gone. “Having experienced it in other towns, whenever a shopping center comes…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Somebody asked Don Morris to sign a petition protesting the pending arrival of Wal-Mart in Waynesboro six years ago. That the longtime Downtown Waynesboro business owner didn’t is an indication of where his thoughts are on economic-development issues. “That to me was a no-brainer. Staunton had a Wal-Mart, Staunton had…
