
AFP Sports Blog – Thursday, Feb. 12, 2009
– News: UVa. releases ’09 football schedule, Thursday, 4:15 p.m. – News: Five Cavs invited to NFL combine, Thursday, 4:15 p.m. – News: VCU pulls out nailbiter over JMU, Thursday, 9:15 a.m.

– News: UVa. releases ’09 football schedule, Thursday, 4:15 p.m. – News: Five Cavs invited to NFL combine, Thursday, 4:15 p.m. – News: VCU pulls out nailbiter over JMU, Thursday, 9:15 a.m.

– News: Citizens group leading fight against reassessments releases petition locations, Monday, 11:58 a.m. – News: Celebrate Black History Month on The Journey Through Hallowed Ground, Wednesday, 9:20 a.m. – News: Scholarships for children of fallen service members, Wednesday, 9:20 a.m.

Virginians want immediate government action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. A recent survey by the Miller Center at the University of Virginia found that 55 percent of Virginians who see carbon emissions as a manmade problem, “strongly support” requiring electric utilities toproduce sizable amounts of renewable power. This would be power from sustainable sources such…

For the sixth straight game the Virginia Cavaliers fell behind by double digits in the first half of play, and as a result dropped they dropped their sixth straight game, losing at home to Boston College 80-70 in Atlantic Coast Conference basketball action Wednesday night.

– Stuarts Draft man charged with murder for hire, Thursday, 6 p.m. – Miss America 2008 to speak at JMU on eating disorders, Thursday, 5:50 p.m. – Family Foundation praises passage of marriage curriculum bill, Thursday, 5:50 p.m. – White House announces formation of faith-based partnerships office, Thursday, 5:50 p.m. – Wagner picks up several…

The AFP will be live at the John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville for tonight’s ACC basketball game between Virginia (7-10, 1-5 ACC) and Boston College (17-6, 5-3 ACC) Tipoff is scheduled for 7 p.m. The game is being broadcast on ESPNU. AFP contributor Scott German will be leading the live blog tonight. Feel free…

– Perriello criticizes tobacco tax in SCHIP bill, Wednesday, 1:40 p.m. – Conservation easements top 100,000 acres in Valley, Wednesday, 12:50 p.m. – Treasury announces new restrictions on executive compensation, Wednesday, 12:50 p.m. – House GOP pushing mental-health reforms, Wednesday, 12:50 p.m. – House bill allowing government-sanctioned sectarian prayers at government meetings unconstitutional, ACLU says,…

You could call James Storm a TNA Original. You’d be right in more ways than one. “That’s me in real life, man. That ain’t no role. That’s me in real life. Drinking my beer and beating people up,” said Storm, one-half of the TNA world tag-team champions as Beer Money Inc. with Robert Roode.

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