Why more Virginians are betting online
Watch a close game in Virginia today, and the sportsbook is rarely farther away than the phone already showing the score.
Watch a close game in Virginia today, and the sportsbook is rarely farther away than the phone already showing the score.
With a few weeks left in the 2026 Major League Baseball season, 30 players born in Virginia have appeared in at least one MLB game this year.
Local advocates are petitioning to bring passenger rail to Harrisonburg and the surrounding Shenandoah Valley in Virginia’s 2026 State Rail Plan.
Bradley Hanner made his Major League debut for the New York Yankees over the weekend, pitching one inning of relief in Toronto against the Blue Jays.
JMU announced in late July that Christian Bourne, a former pitcher for the Dukes, will be the new pitching coaching. Bourne has been on the coaching staff at Radford.
We recently reported on Bill Buck, a long-time resident of Northern Virginia who covered the Mid-Atlantic region as a professional baseball scout for the Detroit Tigers before retiring in 2015.
This October will be the 60th anniversary of the first World Series title for the Baltimore Orioles – who have not been back to the Fall Classic, much less won it, since 1983.
It was the spring of 1993, and baseball scouts were flocking to Southwest Virginia to see Billy Wagner, a hard-throwing lefty pitcher for Ferrum College.
Long-time Ruckersville resident Tom Dulaney Slonaker has had a plethora of successful careers, including sports broadcaster, financial engineer, stockbroker, and as an insurance agent he had an office in Charlottesville.
It has been more than three years since Jimmy Jackson was the pitching coach for the JMU Baseball team.
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