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The Top Story by Chris Graham The conventional wisdom is that the military vote and veteran vote both tend to lean strongly in the Republican direction – but Democratic Party Senate nominee Jim Webb, a Vietnam War veteran and former Reagan administration Navy secretary, might just be able to turn the conventional wisdom on…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham Mark Warner sure has come a long way since the days when his claim to political fame was that he once came in second among candidates with the surname Warner in a United States Senate race. The former one-term Virginia governor is now considered by more than a…
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Story by Chris Graham Last year it was baseball. Now it’s Floyd Landis and Justin Gatlin … and baseball. The issue of the use of performance-enhancing drugs by athletes continues to get scads of press – and you know what that means.
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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham I went to see “Talladega Nights” over the weekend, and, well … It wasn’t “Animal House.” Here we go again – he’s going to go on about how “Animal House” changed the world. That is how I judge the quality of a comedy. “Seven years of college down…
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Story by Chris Graham Jack Bedell is, by day, a poet and college professor in Louisiana. On nights and weekends, though, Bedell is a football fanatic – and his football of choice is Canadian. “Everything that we like in the modern era about the NFL, and then with the rise in popularity of the Arena…
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Story by Chris Graham Everything about soccer in the United States would seem to point in the direction of the sport taking on more prominent status in American popular culture. An estimated 18 million Americans are on an organized youth or adult soccer team – only basketball has more active team participants.
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Story by Chris Graham Softball seemed poised to become the next big thing in women’s sports after the successful barnstorming tour of the United States Olympic team preceding the 2004 Athens Games that drew sellout crowds in 22 cities. At least one more tour of the States could be in the offing – in 2008…
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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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Story by Chris Graham It was somebody on the dais that first brought up the words White House. U.S. Sen. George Allen, for his part, is focused on the task at hand – namely, what could prove to be a tough Senate re-election battle. “I don’t know what the future will hold. All I do…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham James Webb has some explaining to do to Democratic Party voters in Virginia this spring. But if he can wade through that minefield like he did through a long military career that included a tour of duty in Vietnam and a stint as Ronald Reagan’s secretary of the…
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