
New dietary guidelines: What’s good, what’s bad, what does it all mean to me?
Remember when eggs were bad? And coffee – really bad. Caffeine in general, cholesterol, you had to avoid it. That was so … early 2015.

Remember when eggs were bad? And coffee – really bad. Caffeine in general, cholesterol, you had to avoid it. That was so … early 2015.

Colleague Scott German reminded me tonight while we were recording our UVA Sports Today podcast of a conversation that we had driving up to the season opener in Harrisonburg back in November.

In a thrilling game fitting of a fierce intra-city rivalry, Richmond (16-12, 9-6) downed #22 VCU (21-7, 11-4), 67-63, in double overtime on Wednesday night at the Robins Center.

The Milk Processor Education Program, or MilkPEP, is responding to dairy critics with a new campaign, “Get real about milk” and a related website at milktruth.com. The campaign is using the hashtag #MilkTruth.

Reading a news article about a college baseball team on a weeks-long road trip made possible by online classes made me think back to my own college years.

Delegate Sam Rasoul (D-Roanoke) applauded Attorney General Mark Herring’s announcement that his office is initiating an inquiry into Natural Bridge Zoo.

The official attendance per the UVA sports media office was 13,593. Can’t verify that independently, because I was among the masses who had to miss the game because of the heavy snow (and a mountain pass separating my home office from the John Paul Jones Arena), but watching the game on TV (as excruciating as that was), it did seem that there was a decent crowd in the house.

The Internet is a boundless source of information on how things are done. Now some U.S. farmers are sharing videos about what they do every day, with the goal of reaching consumers who have questions.

The national average price for regular unleaded gasoline has increased every day for nearly three weeks for a total of 20 cents per gallon. Gas prices had previously dropped for a record 123 consecutive days before beginning to rise again on January 27.

Fourth-ranked Duke won at unranked Syracuse in an ESPN prime-time game Saturday night, and the symbiotic relationship between The Worldwide Leader and its beloved university rose to the occasion postgame.
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