Good ol’ boy Allen facing new Virginia electorate

Chris Graham

Story by Chris Graham Jim Webb has closed the gap on George Allen – and has even, according to one newspaper poll, surged into the lead in the United States Senate race between the two. The conventional wisdom attributes the momentum that the Democratic Party nominee has been enjoying in recent weeks to an incident…

Football, Canadian style

Chris Graham

Story by Chris Graham Jack Bedell is, by day, a poet and college professor in Louisiana. On nights and weekends, though, Bedell is a football fanatic – and his football of choice is Canadian. “Everything that we like in the modern era about the NFL, and then with the rise in popularity of the Arena…

Declaration of (public broadcast) independence

Chris Graham

Story by Chris Graham It’s spring, which means it’s probably time for Congress to threaten to cut funding for public broadcasting. A move by a congressional subcommittee to slash funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting that was reversed last week by the House Appropriations Committee had people again discussing the merits of taxpayer funding…

Nash knows his limits

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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…