Share
Respect. Isn’t that really all parents want from their kids? Isn’t it about the hardest thing to actually teach them to do–treat us with respect? I struggle with this a great deal due to the way my two teenage boys sometimes speak to me, respond to a request, and generally behave. It is not with…
Share
Virginia Tech football coach Frank Beamer talks with the news media in advance of his team’s game on Saturday at North Carolina State. Opening Statement I’m really proud of our football team to go up to Boston College and beat a good football team. I thought we play exceptionally hard, I thought we hung in…
Share
Florida State football coach Jimbo Fisher talks with the news media in advance of his team’s game on Saturday with Virginia. Pretty good defense you’re facing this week? “Very good, they are 12th in the country, and seventh in scoring. You go watch VMI, watch Richmond, they are a very go program and then go…
Share
North Carolina State football coach Tom O’Brien talks with the news media in advance of his team’s game Saturday with Virginia Tech. On Josh Czajkowski “That’s Jerry Petercuskie’s specialty. He talks with them—they have their own meetings. They have their own séances, so he can talk to them and figure it out. I would probably…
Share
Virginia Tech football coach Frank Beamer talks with the news media in advance of his team’s game on Saturday at North Carolina State. Opening Statement I’m really proud of our football team to go up to Boston College and beat a good football team. I thought we play exceptionally hard, I thought we hung in…
Share
Ground was broken on the new Riverheads fire and rescue station in August a couple of weeks before all hell started to break loose on the future of the whole volunteer fire-rescue concept that has served Augusta County for decades. Construction crews were busy at the site Wednesday morning with quite visible signs of progress…
Share
Virginia football coach Mike London talks with members of the news media about his team. UVa. (2-1, 0-0 ACC) will host Florida State (3-1, 1-0 ACC) on Saturday at noon. Q. I have a question that doesn’t really pertain to this week’s opponent, but when you scheduled two FCS teams, did you think there might…
Share
Virginia football coach Mike London talks with members of the news media about his team. UVa. (2-1, 0-0 ACC) will host Florida State (3-1, 1-0 ACC) on Saturday at noon. Q. I have a question that doesn’t really pertain to this week’s opponent, but when you scheduled two FCS teams, did you think there might…
Share
American taxpayers bailed out the banks. They bailed out auto manufacturers. But at least they were our banks and automakers. Now, taxpayers are once again being asked to lend a hand. This time it’s to subsidize multi-billion-dollar foreign companies with names like Toshiba, Hitachi and Areva. If the going gets rough for them, taxpayers will…
Share
NASCAR SNOOZEFEST: I’m listening to Denny Hamlin on “The Scott Van Pelt Show” on ESPN Radio driving around in the Valley today, and I hear Hamlin say something that to me explains what is fundamentally wrong with NASCAR right now. Asked by Van Pelt if at this stage of the NASCAR season he’d rather win…
