
Raiders announce return of Antwon Young for 2013
The Richmond Raiders are excited to announce the return of their quarterback and the 2012 Professional Indoor Football League MVP, Antwon Young, for the 2013 season.

The Richmond Raiders are excited to announce the return of their quarterback and the 2012 Professional Indoor Football League MVP, Antwon Young, for the 2013 season.

I realize that the last thing you want to hear on New Year’s Eve is another speech from me. But I do need to talk about the progress that’s being made in Congress today.

Steven Rittenhouse ’11 recalls a student-teaching “aha!” moment – a turning point both for himself, then an Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) undergraduate, and for a boy who dropped into his classroom during a planning period at Thomas Harrison Middle School (THMS).

You remember the way it was on Christmas morning. You thought today would never come. December was twelve months long.

Transportation for the Elderly and Disabled (TED) Volunteer Coordinator Jacquie Horton will be mailing a holiday card to 37 TED volunteer drivers who have driven this year.

An ingenious new technique is making it quicker and easier for scientists to identify the function of uncharacterized proteins in cells. The method, developed by researchers primarily from the Wladek Minor laboratory at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, already is being used to solve some of the most stubborn mysteries of cellular function.

Moments in political history are hard to spot. However, I think I may have spotted one ten months ago. On Friday, February 10, 2012, at around 2:15 pm, there was a changing of the Old Guard of the Grand Old Party of the Old Dominion. That’s a lot of old. But that’s Virginia. Its past is never past.

An illegal hold really isn’t legal for five seconds because the ref starts counting to signal to the offending wrestler to break the hold. You knew that. You also knew that a gang of wrestlers kidnapping a rival and taking him away on the back of a truck really aren’t engaging in anything even remotely criminal, because if they were, they’d be in jail sometime after we’d get back from the next commercial break. So why do WWE and TNA – for that matter, Top Rope – keep trying to sell us on stuff both in the ring and out when we all know that not a sliver of it is on the up-and-up?

Think the blogosphere is overrated as a power source? Consider the latest from the Atlantic Coast Conference. The ACC Council of Presidents issued a statement on Thursday to “express our commitment to preserve and prospect the future of our outstanding league.”

What is it about Republicans that they can’t stand a good political fight? Are they all of the established country club wing of the party who prefer the non-contact sports of golf and tennis to the rough and tumble of a good partisan fight? Are they all Charlie Brown’s up against a Lucy who keeps saying that she will not pull away the football?
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