
College athletics is broken: You’ll hate my ideas for fixing it
We can all just cut it with the manufactured outrage about how money is ruining college basketball, like money hasn’t been ruining college sports since college sports has been a thing.

We can all just cut it with the manufactured outrage about how money is ruining college basketball, like money hasn’t been ruining college sports since college sports has been a thing.

It’s becoming quite evident that “Big Shot” Ian Boyd has a flair for the dramatic. With less than a second to go and the George Mason University men’s basketball team trailing VCU 80-79, Boyd gobbled up an offensive rebound and converted a second-chance tip-in to give the Patriots their first win in the Siegel Center since 2011.

The Elon Phoenix scored three runs in the seventh inning, overcoming a two-run Liberty advantage for a 4-3 victory, Wednesday afternoon at Latham Park.

The No. 9 Virginia women’s lacrosse team (4-0) picked up a 16-5 win over William and Mary (2-2) on Wednesday (Feb. 28) night at Klöckner Stadium.

Top-ranked Virginia (26-2, 15-1 ACC) closes out its ACC regular-season road schedule by playing at Louisville (19-10, 9-7 ACC) on Thursday, March 1. Tipoff at KFC Yum! Center (22,090) is set for 8 p.m.

The Virginia Festival of the Book announces CFA Institute as a sponsor of select 2018 programming to support the Festival’s initiative on diversity, which seeks to increase the diversity of participating authors and attract more diverse audiences to the Festival, which takes place each March in Charlottesville and Albemarle County.

The American Shakespeare Center closed submissions for the first round of the Shakespeare’s New Contemporaries Project on February 15 at 11:59 pm PST. The company received 189 complete and eligible submissions from 32 US states and internationally from 10 countries.

The activism of students at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida give us new hope for progress in reversing gun violence. Their passion, borne of grief and love, is inspirational and contagious.

Bill Tonkins, vineyard manager at Veritas Vineyards and Winery, Afton, has been named 2018 Grower of the Year by the Virginia Vineyards Association.

U.S. Senator Tim Kaine, Co-Chair of the Senate Military Family Caucus, introduced the Jobs and Childcare for Military Families Act of 2018 to address military spouse unemployment and access to affordable childcare.
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