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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Basketball coaches are assumed to prefer layups and short and medium-range jumpers to shots from behind the three-point arc that offer high reward in terms of the amount of points that can be scored per basket but at considerable risk to one’s offensive efficiency. And if you’re looking at Dave…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Virginia fell short of its improbable dream of winning the ACC. The consolation prize – the program’s first New Year’s Day bowl appearance in 14 years. “We’re very excited to be coming down to the game. This is a game that we kind of had in our sights once the…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Al Groh was getting ready for what turned out to be a nailbiter with Connecticut when he saw something on the TV that worried him about another game that his Virginia team had on the schedule. “We had a later game the day that Virginia Tech was playing Duke –…
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We are live at the John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville for tonight’s ACC-Big 10 Challenge game between Virginia and Northwestern. Virginia is 5-1 on the season – and is coming off a 74-60 loss to Seton Hall on Saturday in the final round of the Philly Hoop Group Classic. Northwestern is 1-3 on the…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The Biggest Football Game Ever Played is set for Saturday in Charlottesville – but the biggest football game of the opening weekend of the 2007 Football Championship Subdivision playoffs will be going on down the Blue Ridge in Boone, N.C., when the last two I-AA national champs meet in Kidd…
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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham [email protected] Pictures can sure take you back, can’t they? I’m looking at one on my desk right now of me and a little girl named Emilee who is holding my hand in the picture, a smile on her face. I’m a lot skinnier in this photo, incidentally, than…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] We’ve come to that time of year when I try to show you how smart I think I am by efforting at making calls in local election races. OK, so what I’m really trying to do is give us all something to chew on until the numbers start rolling in…
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Winners and Losers column by Chris Graham [email protected] WINNERS: Fans of Virginia and Virginia Tech Finally, the big game after Thanksgiving means something. Virginia’s win over Wake Forest on Saturday basically sealed the deal – the winner of the Nov. 24 game in Charlottesville between UVa. and Virginia Tech will represent the Coastal Division in…
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Mad About U: Four Decades of Basketball at University Hall By Chris Graham and Patrick Hite The following is an excerpt from Mad About U: Four Decades of Basketball at University Hall, a book on the history of University of Virginia basketball at University Hall, which closed in 2006. The book was published in 2006…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] I always wonder how I would react if I had everything taken away from me and had to fight to get it back. Cara Atkins has been there, done that – and says it is the most difficult thing you can imagine having to go through. “It’s been really difficult…
