Nash knows his limits

Chris Graham

Story by Chris Graham Kevin Nash isn’t bashful about being a big man. The 6-foot-11 grappler knows he’s not asked to do huracanranas and five-star frog splashes and dives from the top of cages. “I’m kind of limited in what I can do now – I’ve always been limited, because size does limit you to…

The Ann Coulter way

Chris Graham

Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham I’ve got it all figured out. How I’m going to become rich and famous, that is. Here goes … I’m going to be Ann Coulter. You know, the shrill shrew who threatens to eat her rivals’ children. Sorry, that was Mike Tyson. Coulter is the one who picks…

Can the ‘Netroots carry Webb to primary victory?

Chris Graham

The Top Story by Chris Graham   The Virginia Democratic blogosphere loves Jim Webb – but will that be enough to carry the former Reagan administration official to victory in this month’s Democratic Party Senate primary? “Most of this is going to depend on electability – whether someone feels that it’s more important to vote…

‘E-C-W! E-C-W! E-C-W!’

Chris Graham

Story by Chris Graham ECW at its height was the antithesis of what professional wrestling has become – corporate, antiseptic, formulaic. The question of the summer is – how can the people who pioneered the concept of corporate, antiseptic, formulaic wrestling possibly do justice to the memory of the ECW revolution?

Are big names worth the money?

Chris Graham

Story by Chris Graham How does an indy promoter make his product stand out in what is becoming a hypercompetitive professional-wrestling marketplace? Travis Bradshaw of the Smithfield-based Vanguard Championship Wrestling focues on getting his local talent over – even as he admits to being tempted to bring in former WWE and WCW stars to draw…

O’Connor building bright future for UVa. baseball

Chris Graham

Story by Chris Graham It is the best of times for Virginia baseball. The program is coming off back-to-back NCAA regionals appearances – which had never been accomplished before at the University of Virginia – and it appears certain that coach Brian O’Connor’s crew is headed back to the postseason next month. The good news…

The fun-and-games department

Chris Graham

Story by Chris Graham It is not as if the steroids scandal that has been the talk of the baseball world for the past year or so was a recent revelation. “Every single sports reporter covering the San Francisco Giants in the late 1990s and the early part of this decade thought that Barry Bonds…

Is the Wayne issue driving the city elections?

Chris Graham

The Top Story by Chris Graham   It has been seven months since Waynesboro City Council decided against acting on a proposal from the Wayne Theatre Alliance to have the city participate in a public-private project to renovate the 1926 downtown landmark. You’d think from listening to the rhetoric in this spring’s city-council elections that…

Hate is such a strong word

Chris Graham

The Top Story by Chris Graham The term Bush-hater today doesn’t carry with it the stigma that it used to. One piece of evidence suggesting that is that more and more people on the left – and even in the amorphous center – are for whatever reason embracing the label. You would think from listening…