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James Madison women’s basketball coach Kenny Brooks has been named the Coach of the Year by the Virginia Sports Information Directors Association (VaSID). Brooks guided the Dukes to a school-record 29 wins, a 29-8 record and a runner-up finish in the Women’s National Invitation Tournament. He earned the VaSID Coach of the Year award for…
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Third in a series It can be easy for politicians running for office to stay within the bubble of campaign events – shaking hands, making speeches, eating on the run, rinse, repeat. U.S. Senate candidate Tim Kaine has been making it a point to get out from under the bubble with a series of walking…
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The No. 25 Virginia baseball team defeated Richmond, 7-5, Tuesday night at Davenport Field. UVa scored a pair of runs in the seventh inning to break a 5-5 tie en route to the win. Stephen Bruno (Jr., Audubon, N.J.) continued his hot hitting with a 3-for-5 night as he extended his hitting streak to 10…
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Second in a series Tim Kaine had thought, like a lot of us did, that his political career was over. In January 2010, Kaine finished up his term as governor of Virginia, and looked out a landscape in Virginia politics that featured two Democrats, Jim Webb and Mark Warner, representing the Commonwealth in the United…
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Staunton Guided Tours joins the commemoration of the 150th anniversary of Stonewall Jackson’s Valley Campaign with guided daylong tours to the Reenactment of the Battle of McDowell on May 5 and a You Are There living history day at the battlefields of Cross Keys and Port Republic on June 9. The first and the final…
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Gov. Bob McDonnell ceremonially signed 13 pieces of legislation that he says will advance Virginia as the “Energy Capital of the East Coast” today in Richmond. The legislation continues Gov. McDonnell’s “all of the above” strategy for advancing development of Virginia’s energy resources. In signing this legislation and working with industry and stakeholder groups, this…
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Nathan H. Miller, chair of the Bridgewater College board of trustees, announced today the formation of a committee that will conduct the search for the next president of Bridgewater College. President George Cornelius announced March 6 that he will let his contract with the college expire at the end of the current academic year. Executive…
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No. 8 North Carolina scored four runs in the first inning and never trailed in downing the No. 23 Virginia baseball team 5-3 Sunday afternoon at Davenport Field. The Sunday attendance of 4,422 gave UVa a weekend total of 13,675, the most in program history for a regular-season series. With the win the Tar Heels…
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Freshman shortstop Chad Carroll (Oakton, Va./Oakton) tied the game with a two-run single in the ninth and James Madison scored twice in the 10th inning before holding on to defeat Old Dominion 7-6 in game two of a Colonial Athletic Association baseball series on Saturday afternoon at the Bud Metheny Complex. JMU won its fifth…
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James Madison took a commanding early lead with a seven-run third inning and benefitted from 13 walks by Old Dominion pitchers in a 13-8 victory to open a Colonial Athletic Association baseball series on Friday night at the Bud Metheny Complex. JMU improved to 10-23-1 overall and won its fourth straight CAA game to improve…
