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Virginia football coach Mike London talks with the news media on Monday. Virginia (4-7, 1-6 ACC) travels to Virginia Tech (9-2, 7-0 ACC) on Saturday. QUESTION: What is the game plan as far as Tyrod Taylor? LONDON: I tell you what, you’ve seen a lot of people try to game plan him certain ways, but…
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Senior forward Denzel Bowles (Virginia Beach, Va./Kempsville) had a game-high 20 points and sparked a second-half run to lead James Madison to a 74-67 men’s basketball victory at The Citadel Saturday night at McAlister Field House. JMU picked up its first win of the season to improve to 1-1. The Citadel dropped to 0-3 on…
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Virginia Tech dominated the fourth quarter to break open a close game with Miami en route to posting a 31-17 win over the Hurricanes in South Florida on Saturday and clinching the ACC Coastal Division title in the process. Virginia, meanwhile, went scoreless after halftime in Chestnut Hill and couldn’t convert on a first-and-goal in…
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After 11 years and an ACLU lawsuit, the Virginia Department of Corrections confirmed today that it was finally allowing prisoners with long hair or beards out of segregation. The ACLU lawsuit, filed in 2003 on behalf of Muslim and Rastafarian prisoners, claimed that DOC’s policy requiring inmates to be clean shaven and to keep their…
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Virginia Tech football coach Frank Beamer talks with the news media. Virginia Tech (8-2, 6-0 ACC) travels to Miami (7-3, 5-2 ACC) on Saturday. Opening Statement I can tell you it’s not getting any easier. You turn on that tape of Miami and you see a really good football team, a team that can strike…
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Virginia Tech football coach Frank Beamer talks with the news media. Virginia Tech (8-2, 6-0 ACC) travels to Miami (7-3, 5-2 ACC) on Saturday. Opening Statement I can tell you it’s not getting any easier. You turn on that tape of Miami and you see a really good football team, a team that can strike…
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Virginia coach Mike London talks with the news media. Virginia (4-6, 1-5 ACC) plays at Boston College (5-5, 3-4 ACC) on Saturday. Opening Statement Unfortunately I have to report on one of our captains, Ras I Dowling, who started the game and after the first couple of reps in the contest he came out with…
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Miami coach Randy Shannon talks with the news media. Miami (7-3, 5-2 ACC) hosts Virginia Tech (8-2, 6-0 ACC) on Saturday. Opening Statement This week’s opponent is Virginia Tech. It’s the last ACC team we play this season as well as a Coastal Division game. It’s an opportunity for us this week to put ourselves…
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AAA today projected the number of Americans traveling for the Thanksgiving holiday will increase 11.4 percent from 2009, with approximately 42.2 million travelers taking a trip at least 50 miles away from home. Last year, 37.9 million Americans traveled during the Thanksgiving holiday. The 2010 Thanksgiving holiday travel period is defined as Wednesday, Nov. 24…
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For all the rhetoric from the newly elected Republican House members on repealing the health care law, we hear absolutely nothing about their solutions to our health care crisis. I have not heard one politician who talks of repeal propose a single viable solution to fix our dysfunctional insurance system. Maybe the Republicans offer no…
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