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For just about 72 hours, it was a widely known fact that the Virginia Commonwealth University men’s basketball team had taken issues with disparaging marks made by college basketball experts across the country about their inclusion in the 2011 NCAA Tournament. In just over two hours, that same team silenced all critics and completely shut…
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Catcher John Hicks had two home runs and drove in four to lead Virginia to a 7-3 victory over James Madison in a non-conference baseball matchup on Wednesday night at Davenport Field. Virginia won its 11th game in a row to improve to 17-1 overall. JMU fell to Virginia for the third straight time and…
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Davidson used a 27-10 run over 10 minutes to turn a tie game into a 17-point second half lead and cruised to an 85-65 win over James Madison in the opening round of the College Basketball Invitational presented by Zebra Pen on Tuesday night in Belk Arena. DC improved to 18-14 with its ninth win…
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We can either pay now or we can pay more, later. For once I concur with a spending bill that hit Gov. Bob McDonnell’s desk before the legislative session crosses the finish line. This is the just over $18 million price tag to more than double the amount of time Fairfax County elementary school students…
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AFP editor Chris Graham talks sports on WREL-1450AM’s “Online with Jim Bresnahan.” The main thrust in this week’s segment is the upset feelings down in Blacksburg over the latest NCAA Tournament snub of Virginia Tech. Chris and Jim break down the snub by examining Tech’s resume and the respective resumes of several bubble teams that…
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AFP editor Chris Graham talks sports on WREL-1450AM’s “Online with Jim Bresnahan.” The main thrust in this week’s segment is the upset feelings down in Blacksburg over the latest NCAA Tournament snub of Virginia Tech. Chris and Jim break down the snub by examining Tech’s resume and the respective resumes of several bubble teams that…
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Virginia and Virginia Tech need to beef up their out-of-conference schedules OK, so ACC teams don’t get to play the likes of Georgia State in January and February. That said, the Committee has made it clear that it expects power-conference teams to play more challenging nonconference schedules than Seth Greenberg likes to put together. That…
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John Hicks (Jr., Sandy Hook, Va.) singled in the go-ahead run with two out in the ninth inning to lift No. 6 Virginia to an 8-7 win over No. 4 Clemson Saturday afternoon at Doug Kingsmore Stadium in Clemson, S.C. After squandering a three-run lead, Virginia (15-1, 2-0 ACC) then rallied from a three-run deficit…
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James Madison sent 15 batters to the plate in a 12-run fourth inning and cruised to a 21-8 win over Hofstra in a Colonial Athletic Association baseball game on Saturday afternoon at Eagle Field at Veterans Memorial Park. JMU snapped a two-game losing skid and improved to 12-3 overall, 4-1 in the CAA. Hofstra dropped…
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Senior Mary Kate Lomady (Abington, Pa./Abington) tallied a game-high five goals to lead the #10/8 James Madison (5-0) women’s lacrosse team to a 16-11 victory over Richmond (2-6) on Saturday afternoon at the JMU Women’s Lacrosse Complex. Lomady scored the first three goals for the Dukes in the opening 8:14 and was one of three…
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