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Story by Chris Graham Everything about soccer in the United States would seem to point in the direction of the sport taking on more prominent status in American popular culture. An estimated 18 million Americans are on an organized youth or adult soccer team – only basketball has more active team participants.
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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham I have this running game that I’m playing with the guy in charge of ordering at the grocery store. The game: I buy two boxes of Peanut Butter Cookie Crisp each week, and he keeps the Peanut Butter Cookie Crisp coming.
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Story by Chris Graham It’s spring, which means it’s probably time for Congress to threaten to cut funding for public broadcasting. A move by a congressional subcommittee to slash funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting that was reversed last week by the House Appropriations Committee had people again discussing the merits of taxpayer funding…
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Golf Things Considered column by John Rogers [email protected] The Valley has been changing, and the daylight stretching out, as the solstice draws near. There’s a fullness along the country roads where trees recently bare take on a middle-aged kind of thickness, swaying contentedly with the last of spring breezes. The cacophony of cicadas, tree…
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Story by Chris Graham Kevin Nash isn’t bashful about being a big man. The 6-foot-11 grappler knows he’s not asked to do huracanranas and five-star frog splashes and dives from the top of cages. “I’m kind of limited in what I can do now – I’ve always been limited, because size does limit you to…
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Story by Chris Graham The jury was still out on where J.J. Redick would fit in next week’s NBA draft before the news about his ailing back hit the newswire. And now you have to factor in his arrest for drunken-driving charges from last week.
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Story by Chris Graham Olivia is getting ready for medical school – well, to be more accurate about it, her parents are getting ready for the idea of sending her to medical school. And then she shocks them and shocks her world by announcing what she plans to do before she enrolls – namely, that…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham The Virginia Democratic blogosphere loves Jim Webb – but will that be enough to carry the former Reagan administration official to victory in this month’s Democratic Party Senate primary? “Most of this is going to depend on electability – whether someone feels that it’s more important to vote…
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Story by Chris Graham ECW at its height was the antithesis of what professional wrestling has become – corporate, antiseptic, formulaic. The question of the summer is – how can the people who pioneered the concept of corporate, antiseptic, formulaic wrestling possibly do justice to the memory of the ECW revolution?
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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham “You’re a card-carrying member of the ACLU,” the missive began. Honest and for true. The sentence was so matter of fact that I actually checked my wallet. You know – for my card. I figured it had to be in there. When I didn’t find it immediately, I…
