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The college-sports landscape was thisclose to apocalypse – if only Texas wasn’t Texas, and had gone along with a move to the Pac-10 that had seemed to be in the works, instead of building itself a UT TV network and convincing the nine dwarfs left in what was the Big 12 to be its programming…
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Tyrod Taylor is the key to the run at a national championship that Virginia Tech fans are hoping is in the offing in 2010. The key to Taylor’s season, and thus the Hokies’ season, could be the continued development of his backups. “We’re much better-equipped at backup quarterback this year than we were last year…
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Mike London’s initial reaction to the idea pitched to him by University of Virginia executive associate athletics director Jon Oliver about featuring the UVa. football team in a weekly television series was maybe what you’d expect. “At first, I was like, Cameras in practice? I was kind of hesitant,” said London, the first-year coach at…
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For a stretch in 2008, Marc Verica looked like the second coming of Matt Schaub. Running Mike Groh’s West Coast offense, Verica passed for 200 or more yards in six straight games, and led a Virginia team that had stumbled out of the gate to a 1-3 start to four straight wins and a brief…
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Starting in September, the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Virginia (OLLI at UVa) brings its distinguished program of university-level, short courses to Staunton. Community leaders from the Valley are excited to welcome this impressive resource that offers intellectual stimulation to active adults, including the increasing number of retirees settling in this area….
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The Harrisonburg-Rockingham Chamber of Commerce is challenging community members to envision an ideal place where they want to live, work, and play. Over the past 13 months, a diverse group of Harrisonburg and Rockingham County residents have been working together to imagine and describe the community that we aspire to become by the year 2020….
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With the wide publicity the Arizona law has received requiring police to question people if there is reason to suspect they are in the United States illegally, the Police Foundation distributed to state legislators the results of a study it had conducted on the issue. As the president of the Foundation explained in his transmittal…
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I’ve learned repeatedly in my life that whenever I give to the world, whether by direct action or donations, I get back so much more than the effort or money involved. This is a life lesson that our kids should learn as so many of them, here in America, are living the “easy life” with…
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“I can see clearly now, the rain is gone . . .” proclaims the 1972 hit by Johnny Nash, and I am more than delighted to second that emotion. Well, almost. I had just completed my annual visual exam with my long-time ophthalmologist Dr. Capstack and given an “all clear” signal for another year but,…
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I learned recently that the Page County School Board has decided to close GroveHillElementary School that I attended for my first seven years of schooling. The locality has lost too much in state education funding and local tax revenues to be able to keep the 100-year-old community school open. The longer bus rides to other…
