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VMI holds off Longwood rally to win in Big South Tourney, 90-86

No. 2 North VMI got 79 points from the trio of Stan Okoye, D.J. Covington and Rodney Glasgow, overcoming Michael Kessens’ tournament-record 36 points and a furious second-half comeback by No. 6 North Longwood. The Keydets prevailed 90-86 in an action-packed quarterfinal VisitMyrtleBeach.com Big South Men’s Basketball Championship tilt, Thursday afternoon at The HTC Center.

Brett Fisher: Codename Durango

Sony’s recent conference about their eighth generation console, the PlayStation 4, has gotten us Microsoft fans wondering what Xbox has in store for us with the Xbox 720. The original Xbox’s superiority to the PlayStation 2 and the Xbox 360’s superiority to the PlayStation 3 leads me to believe that the trend will continue. In this column, I will be predicting what we can expect to see in the Xbox 720 (codename Durango).

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Kaine meets with Pentagon officials to discuss budget issues

U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, a member of the Senate Armed Services and Budget Committees, today met with top officials at the Pentagon, including Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, Deputy Secretary of Defense Ash Carter and Army Chief of Staff General Ray Odierno, to discuss the impact of sequestration in Virginia. The discussions covered the 90,000 civilian employees at the Department of Defense who will be furloughed, reductions to military base operations across the Commonwealth and delays in training and deployments that could decrease readiness. Kaine also spent time talking with civilian employees at the Pentagon about the effects of announced furloughs.