
Press Conference: ODU football coach Bobby Wilder
ODU football coach Bobby Wilder talks with reporters on Monday. The Monarchs (3-5, 1-3 Conference USA) play Texas-San Antonio (1-7, 1-3 C-USA) on Saturday.

ODU football coach Bobby Wilder talks with reporters on Monday. The Monarchs (3-5, 1-3 Conference USA) play Texas-San Antonio (1-7, 1-3 C-USA) on Saturday.

UVA football coach Mike London talks with reporters on Monday. The Cavs (3-5, 2-2 ACC) play at Miami (5-3, 2-2 ACC) on Saturday.

A critical component of an experiment that proved evolution happens 15 times faster than was previously believed relied upon genetic lines of chickens from Virginia Tech.

The following highway work is scheduled, weather permitting, in the Culpeper District during the upcoming week. Traffic movements may be restricted and speed limits reduced in work zones.

Frank Beamer announced today that he is retiring as the head football coach at Virginia Tech at the end of the 2015 season. For the longest time, the logical choice to succeed Beamer has seemed to be his long-time defensive coordinator, Bud Foster. But that logic has come into question as the years have gone on, to a point now where Foster is on the second tier of the lists of candidates for more than a few in the sports punditry.

Playing in a steady downpour that at one point caused a lengthy weather delay, the top-seeded Samford Bulldogs scored three times in the first half and went on to a 3-0 win over the #9 VMI Keydets in the quarterfinals of the 2015 SoCon Women’s Soccer Championship, contested Saturday night in Birmingham, Ala.

Gas prices continue their move inside the $2 a gallon mark in Virginia, with the average in the Commonwealth at $1.96 a gallon for regular unleaded Sunday morning, down three cents a gallon from last week, and 81 cents a gallon from a year ago.

Betsy Brandon (Littleton, Colo.) turned in her first multiple-goal game and the Cavaliers scored three goals in the final three minutes of the first half as No. 1 Virginia (15-1-1, 9-1-0 ACC) picked up a 6-0 win at Pittsburgh (10-7-1, 4-6-0 ACC) on Saturday night.

Four weeks ago, UVA head coach Mike London made some changes on the defensive side of the ball aimed at simplifying the scheme with the goal of getting the D to get out of trying to read and react and instead play with more aggression.

Back in 2004, rapper P. Diddy started an organization called Citizen Change and launched a campaign called Vote or Die. Diddy and the campaign were subsequently mocked in some circles, notably the popular TV show South Park.
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