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Inside Higher Ed’s recent story, “UVA Presidential Hire Raises Process Concerns,” frames the controversy surrounding Scott C. Beardsley’s appointment as the University of Virginia’s president.
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The Atlantic 10 simply cannot compete with the ACC and other power conferences when it comes to placing multiple teams in the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. No surprise there.
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Miriam (Mim) Mumaw coached several women’s sports at what was then EMC in Harrisonburg in the 1960s and 1970s and was inducted into the school’s Hall of Fame in 2002.
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As a recent podcast guest on “Chris and Company,” Lynchburg native Brandon Inge told the host about when future Hall of Fame catcher Pudge Rodriguez joined the Detroit Tigers prior to the 2004 season.
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This has been a difficult year for the New York Giants – even by the club’s dubious standards since the end of the 2013 season.
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Seven natives of Virginia made their MLB debut in 2025 – one less than in 2023. That year eight Virginia natives broke into The Show, which was the most for the state in one year in nearly 30 seasons.
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An event at Mary Baldwin University aims to help students and the broader community better understand what it is like to live in poverty.
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It was a clear, quiet evening on a recent Saturday in Shenandoah County. The cloudless blue sky made Massanutten Mountain clearly visible to the east, with the sound of a few birds the only noise breaking the silence just off Route 11.
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Sean Ryan played baseball at the University of Richmond in the 1990s, and in his first year, his roommate was Mark Budzinski, now the first base coach for the Toronto Blue Jays.
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Justin Verlander, the former Goochland High and ODU star, made his final start of the 2025 season on Sept. 27 for the San Francisco Giants, who had already been eliminated from postseason play. And it was an historic outing – on several counts.
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