UVa. rallies for 66-64 win over Richmond

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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Listen to today’s “SportsDominion Show,” featuring commentary and analysis from SportsDominon editor Chris Graham on last night’s first-round College Basketball Invitational game between UVa. and Richmond and interviews with Virginia coach Dave Leitao and Richmond coach Chris Mooney. Show Length: 18:22. Dave Leitao called one timeout, then another, trying to…

Overtime

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General Assembly Report column by Del. Ben Cline Under Article 4 of the Constitution of Virginia, “no regular session of the General Assembly convened in an even-numbered year shall continue longer than sixty days.” That means that the 2008 session should have adjourned for the year on Saturday, March 8. However, as the hours passed last Saturday,…

Obsess much over sports?

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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Listen to today’s “SportsDominion Show,” featuring a discussion of sports in American society with Eastern Mennonite University athletics director Dave King. Show Length: 25:53. You wouldn’t expect an athletics director at a university to be preaching the message that sports has become too much an obsession in today’s culture. It’d…

Basketball polls, CAA playoff contenders, ‘Skins can’t cover T.O., NFL refs can’t see

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Winners and Losers column by Chris Graham [email protected] LOSERS: Virginia beats #17 Arizona, doesn’t get a sniff in national polls I know – the polls don’t mean anything this time of year. But still … I’m guessing nobody saw the game – it ended early Sunday morning local time – and that somehow the final…

Next on the Mark Warner agenda: Is former governor, White House candidate ready to again be a player on Virginia political scene?

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The Top Story by Chris Graham   Mark Warner made it a point to tell Virginia politics reporters covering the final year of his term as governor of the Old Dominion that he really felt he was hitting his stride in the job – and while the focus of their editors seemed to be on…

O ‘Shenandoah,’ how long to hear you? Controversy over state-song pick rages on

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The Top Story by Chris Graham   “Shenandoah” is a fine tune – on that point, few will disagree. As fine a tune as it might be, though, is “Shenandoah” – which is, depending on who you believe, either about the Shenandoah Valley, a Native American tribal chief or life on the Western frontier –…

Life by design: Debate heats up over new theory of how we got here

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The Top Story by Chris Graham The fact that President Bush thinks intelligent design should be taught in American public schools is more than enough for JoAnne Shirley. “I absolutely hope that this becomes an issue here locally and statewide. Students need to be given a choice, as the president said,” said Shirley, a former…