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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham [email protected] I know I’ve done TV and radio for years and years, but that doesn’t mean that I don’t get nervous when … “Quiet on the set!” Ahem, I’m getting interviewed. And that was the case earlier today in Charlottesville, when I was in the crosshairs on “Comcast…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Listen to today’s “SportsDominion Show” for our postgame report from Monday’s College Basketball Invitational quarterfinal game between Virginia and Old Dominion. Show Length: 18:56. It was the last 30 seconds of Sean Singletary’s college-basketball career. Old Dominion was ahead 74-70 and had point guard Brandon Johnson at the free-throw stripe…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Fourteen months of traveling the Sixth District comes down to the last few weeks for Sixth District Democratic Party congressional nomination candidate Sam Rasoul. Democrats in the district will meet April 19-21 to select delegates to the district convention in May. Effectively, then, the race between Rasoul and Drew Richardson…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The 49,860 votes that two independent congressional candidates received combined in 2006 in the Sixth District made Drew Richardson stand up and take notice. Nearly one in four voters who came to the polls in the Sixth in ’06 cast their lots for Republican incumbent Bob Goodlatte’s two challengers. I…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Listen to “The SportsDominion Show” to hear Virginia Tech professor Jaren Pope discuss the tie between college-sports success and admissions. Show Length: 8:35. You hear college and university administrators say it often. We want to win on the field, but it’s more important that we win in the classroom. And…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Listen to “The SportsDominion Show” to hear Virginia football coach Al Groh talk about his linebacker play. Show Length: 4:53. Al Groh does everything by the book. I can only imagine that the Groh book makes War and Peace look like Dr. Seuss. I digress. Groh has a number of…
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Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen There is absolutely no historical evidence that Henry VIII was also known as “Henry the Horny,” but he was obviously a mite impatient when it came to personal relationships. He had six wives and enough affairs to fill a moderately-sized hamlet’s phone book. Well, you can’t really…
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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham [email protected] I just finished reading To Kill A Mockingbird, and lemme tell ya … It’s a cryin’ shame that my high-school English teacher had us watch the movie instead. I understand why. Harper Lee was true to 1935 Alabama in her language, and it included an uncomfortable, to…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Listen to today’s “SportsDominion Show” to hear Virginia football coach Al Groh talk about his team as it begins spring practice. Show Length: 11:59. Al Groh would have reason to be frustrated. He lost his starting quarterback, Jameel Sewell, to grades. He lost a starting defensive end, Jeffrey Fitzgerald, to…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Creigh Deeds lives 85 miles from Charlottesville. That’s how far I am from Richmond, give or take a mile or two. Can you imagine a legislative district that would somehow link Waynesboro and Richmond? Yeah. Not much of a community of interest there. Right? But Deeds represents Charlottesville in the…
