A-10 Basketball: VCU, George Mason get wins in conference openers
VCU and George Mason each notched wins in their A-10 openers on Wednesday.
VCU and George Mason each notched wins in their A-10 openers on Wednesday.

One other role that I got to play day of the show had me on the air as a backstage interviewer. In the planning, it seemed like a no big deal kind of thing. We had also written Marvin into the show, first as a competitor, and then when he pulled out of getting into the ring on the show, as an ally of Kevin Nash and Diamond Dallas Page aligned against The Rock ‘n Roll Express in the main event.

Six years later, I’m still trying to unsort everything that happened sort of minute by minute, with so much that was going on. I don’t remember keeping up with my phone much, for example, but it does strike me that at some point during the day word got back to us that we had a leak backstage.

Before I tell you that story, I’ve got a few other stories to tell you, because as with everything else that involves the wrestling business, the backstory is much more interesting than what you end up seeing in the ring.

The Finlay-Silva match actually came after two other very forgettable matches on the card. The first featured the return of Perry Saturn after a lengthy absence from the wrestling world facing off with former ECW minor player C.W. Anderson.

We’d started with Kevin Nash and Marvin Ward against The Rock ‘n Roll Express, but when it became clear that Marvin wasn’t working himself into shape to be able to perform in-ring, we wrote him out of the match with a storyline injury at the hands of the Rock ‘n Rolls suffered at a house show a month out from the pay-per-view.

I haven’t seen Hank Fawcett since the night of the pay-per-view, technically the early-morning hours the day after the pay-per-view, when he met my wife and I to give us a really big check to catch up on what he’d owed us for our work.
In what can only be called an unparalleled season for UVA Football, the Cavaliers posted their first 11-win season in program history, won the ACC regular-season title outright, finally won a Gator Bowl and will likely be listed among the Top 20 at season’s end.

I wrote a lot about my son when he was first born, mainly because it’s the only thing I could write about. The decision was beyond my control.
For a quick two hours on Sunday, Jan. 18, Virginians will have access to the Executive Mansion through an Open House being hosted by the Spanberger Inaugural Committee.
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