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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.
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Story by Chris Graham Duke’s Amanda Blumenherst was ready for the Atlantic Coast Conference golf championships – with a little help from a famous Tar Heel. “We had heard that he was out there playing, and so we were all really excited,” said Blumenherst, a freshman who won the individual women’s title at the ACC…
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Story by Chris Graham Their Web sites have your attention as draft day draws near. Admit it – you wonder about the people who run them, where they get their information, whether they’re just regurgitating the opinions of other draftniks.
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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham I’m not one of those tort-reform types who thinks that people should be prohibited from suing big companies that put mouse parts in their soft-drink cans or anything, but … Seriously, this country is way, way too litigious for my liking anymore.
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Story by Chris Graham It really is a different world up there on the Appalachian Trail – one that appeals to high-school and college students, people going through various mid-life crises, recent retirees and, more and more these days, in particular, artists and filmmakers. “You really have a lot of elements with the Appalachian Trail…
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Story by Chris Graham Political commentator Chris Matthews says George Allen is the frontrunner for the 2008 Republican Party presidential nomination – and he’s not alone there. But that fact helps Allen not one bit in his drive for re-election to the United States Senate representing Virginia. Indeed, it could turn out to be a…
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