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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham Another year, another graduation season without me being asked to deliver a commencement address. Alas. And I would be so good at it, too – you know, regarding delivering advice to high-school seniors about to venture out into the world. Which is why I’m offering this column –…
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Will Goodlatte run alone in November? Story by Chris Graham David Layman isn’t giving up on the idea that Sixth District Democrats will be able to field a challenger to Republican Congressman Bob Goodlatte this fall – but it’s safe to say that the prospects of that happening are not looking good at this point….
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Golf Things Considered column by John Rogers [email protected] It seems to be the instinct of most of us non-tour players to grip a club like we’ve gotten a hold of the neck of an IRS agent. It’s like we’re arm wrestling with the club – fingers, wrists and forearms straining with our effort to hit…
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Story by Chris Graham It is the best of times for Virginia baseball. The program is coming off back-to-back NCAA regionals appearances – which had never been accomplished before at the University of Virginia – and it appears certain that coach Brian O’Connor’s crew is headed back to the postseason next month. The good news…
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Story by Chris Graham Barry Bonds is black. Babe Ruth was white. Now that we have that established, we can tune into the national discussion that has been ongoing for some time now regarding Bonds’ pursuit of the Bambino’s spot on the all-time home-run list. And you had thought it was all about the two…
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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham “The question that I’ve been getting is, Is the best man still married? Or did his wife end up leaving him after that toast that he made?” My best friend from college, Jay, got married last month – and given that he was my best friend, and more…
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Story by Chris Graham Angela Tincher has always been able to bring it – but as the Virginia Tech sophomore has learned the part of the game that Yogi Berra figured was somewhere in the area of 45 percent mental, she’s become virtually unhittable. “The more I pitch, the more the scouting reports get out…
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Column by Chris Graham The late end to the Division I college baseball season impacts everybody in the summer-baseball world – except for Bruce Alger. “We won the championship in 2002 with basically Division II players. Sixty percent of our roster was Division II players. We’ve made the final round three of the last four…
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Story by Chris Graham Can Jim Webb overcome his past Republican ties – including his endorsement in 2000 of potential 2006 general-election candidate George Allen – in his quest for the Democratic Party Senate nomination? Webb said Thursday in Staunton that he doesn’t have a strategy oriented toward that end. “All I have is issues…
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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham Why is it that when we sweat, we smell like pigs? You’d think if all this stuff about evolution was on the money, we’d have figured out a way as we evolved to sweat vanilla creme.
