UVA extended contract of coach two weeks after he was put on probation
Gary Taylor, the associate head coach with the UVA Swimming program, is on a year-to-year deal with UVA Athletics.
Gary Taylor, the associate head coach with the UVA Swimming program, is on a year-to-year deal with UVA Athletics.
Jim Ryan explained his decision to step down as the president of UVA, saying he did so because “I cannot make a unilateral decision to fight the federal government in order to save my own job.”
I can’t explain this one – Jim Ryan deciding to step down as the president of the University of Virginia, in the face of what felt like token pressure from the Trump Department of Justice.
The Trump Department of Justice has been scheming behind the scenes to pressure UVA President Jim Ryan to resign, citing what officials there believe is Ryan’s slow walking of the dissolution of the school’s DEI programs.
UVA Football had another losing season, Tony Bennett quit, Brian O’Connor bolted, but the sports that most people pay no attention to had good years, leading to a 12th-place finish for UVA Athletics in the 2024-2025 Learfield Directors’ Cup.
The new UVA Baseball coach, Chris Pollard, will earn $1.2 million in the first year of his seven-year deal with UVA Athletics, according to the terms of a memorandum of understanding that he signed on June 10.
A Spotsylvania County MAGA patriot pleaded guilty in federal court this week in a hate-crime case in which he tried to shoot two Latino immigrants after asking them how long they’d been in the U.S.
An 88-year-old woman was struck by a vehicle on South Main Street in Harrisonburg around 10 a.m. this morning.
Chris Pollard, the new UVA Baseball coach, grew up in Amherst County, a couple of counties down Route 29 south of Charlottesville, living and dying, as a kid, with the guys in orange and blue.
It didn’t take long to see why Virginia targeted Chris Pollard from the moment Brian O’Connor indicated that he was planning to leave to take over the baseball program at Mississippi State.
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