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Tewaaraton finalist Steele Stanwick found Matt White for the game-winning goal with 2:33 left in overtime to push the No. 7 seeded Virginia Cavaliers (10-5) over the unseeded Bucknell Bison (14-3) on Sunday, 13-12, inside Klöckner Stadium in the NCAA Tournament first round. Virginia now advances to the quarterfinal round in Hempstead, N.Y., and will…
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The Atlantic Coast Conference had a total of 35 of its players chosen in the 2011 National Football League Draft, held Thursday, Friday and Saturday at Radio City Music Hall in New York. The ACC finished second only to the SEC (38) among collegiate conferences in numbers of players chosen. The Pac-12 Conference had 31,…
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The Atlantic Coast Conference led all collegiate conferences in players chosen through the second round of the 2011 National Football League Draft, held Friday night at Radio City Music Hall in New York. The ACC tied its all-time high with 12 players taken in the second round of the Draft. The ACC previously had a…
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The Federal Housing Administration’s Mortgagee Review Board today announced a settlement agreement with a Virginia-based mortgage lender for failing to apply FHA’s underwriting standards when approving loans. Among the alleged violations, the MRB claimed First Guaranty Mortgage Corporation ignored blemished credit and payment histories, approved loans with debt-to-income ratios that exceeded HUD’s benchmarks, and permitted…
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Steele Stanwick had three goals and four assists for the No. 2 Virginia Cavaliers (7-2), but it wasn’t enough as the No. 11 Johns Hopkins Blue Jays (6-2) broke a six-game losing streak to UVa with a 12-11 triumph on Saturday afternoon, inside Homewood Field. Johns Hopkins captured the Doyle Smith Cup for the first…
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“Here comes the sun, here comes the sun, and I say it’s all right.” – The Beatles, 1969 January creeps by more slowly than fund appeals on public broadcasting. February slips by faster than the time period between hitting the sack Sunday night and the grating buzz of the alarm clock Monday morning. March pounces…
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Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli said Thursday that Virginia will file a petition to ask the United States Supreme Court to take Virginia’s health care lawsuit without first waiting for review by a federal court of appeals. “Given the uncertainty caused by the divergent rulings of the various district courts on the constitutionality of the…
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I’m among those surprised by the sleepy 5-4 start by Virginia Tech, considering the talent that Seth Greenberg has back (Malcolm Delaney, Jeff Allen, Dorenzo Hudson, Victor Davila) and the run that this group was able to make last year, when the Hokies were jobbed out of an NCAA Tournament bid after posting a 23-7…
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It didn’t take me doing the quick bio check on Henry Hudson to figure out his political proclivities. (For the record, Hudson, the judge who ruled Monday that the purchase mandate that is key to the implementation of the health-care reform signed into law in March, was appointed to the federal bench by George W….
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The mandate to taxpayers to purchase health insurance that is a key provision in the health-care reform signed into law in March is unconstitutional, a federal judge in Virginia ruled Monday. “On careful review, this Court must conclude that Section 1501 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act – specifically the Minimum Essential Coverage…
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