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After World War II ended, thousands of GIs were guaranteed a college education by the newly passed GI Bill of Rights; however, many had been blinded in combat and were unable to read the textbooks that they had been given. Anne T. Macdonald, Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic’s founder, had been working at the…
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East Carolina scored four runs with two out in the second inning, and the Pirates made it stand up in a 4-3 win over the No. 10 Virginia baseball team Sunday afternoon at Davenport Field. Virginia, which dropped its first game in seven outings this season, scored single runs in the sixth, seventh and eighth…
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Richmond brought the winning run to the plate in the ninth inning, but Bucknell avoided the threat and won another close game at Pitt Field, 4-3, Sunday afternoon in the rubber-match of a weekend series. Freshman SS Mike Small was three-for-four with an RBI for the Spiders. Bucknell DH Casey Vanderbeck broke the 3-3 tie…
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Behind a masterful performance on the mound and at the plate from Danny Hultzen (Jr., Bethesda, Md.), the Virginia baseball team earned a 10-1 win over East Carolina Friday night at a windy Davenport Field. Virginia (5-0) scored 10 runs in the third and fourth innings to turn the game into a blowout. Hultzen (2-0)…
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Trailing 3-2 after three innings, Le Moyne struck for six unanswered runs over the three middle innings to record an 11-7 baseball victory over James Madison on Friday afternoon at Eagle Field at Veterans Memorial Park. JMU dropped its first game of the season to drop to 4-1 overall while Le Moyne picked up its…
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It was another reality check, the day aided and abetted by spritely spring like weather to soften the blow. I hadn’t planned to raise the subject of retirement again in this space anytime soon, but am finding that the theme is saturating my marshmallow mind to the point that speaking about it publicly is energizing…
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Forward Frank Hassell and guard Kent Bazemore combined for 40 points as Old Dominion took down James Madison 75-59 in a Colonial Athletic Association men’s basketball game Thursday night at the JMU Convocation Center. ODU improved to 23-6 overall and 13-4 in the CAA, sweeping the head-to-head series for the season. JMU fell to 20-10…
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The William and Mary men’s basketball team led wire-to-wire on the strength of strong free throw shooting in recording a 69-65 Senior Night victory over Georgia State at Kaplan Arena. The Green and Gold connected on 29-of-37 from the free throw line, including 80 percent (20-of-25) in the second half, and outrebounded a bigger Panther…
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Enjoy it while you can – it being free stuff on the ‘Net. Free stuff being free information – free magazine content, free newspapers, free Facebook. i say this to those who have been expressing to me their increasing frustration over web ads. You hear it a lot on Facebook, which has a great business…
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Virginia residents donated more than $2 million to U.S. Navy Vets, an organization under investigation in at least six states for defrauding donors, the Office of Consumer Affairs within the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Forestry reported this week. The organization was headed up by a man using the name Bobby Thompson who donated $55,000…
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