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The Richmond Raiders have inked five players to preseason contracts including one returning player from the 2012 PIFL runner-up and four newcomers to the team. They represent a mixture of veterans and younger players who Head Coach James Fuller believes will provide additional quality up and down the roster.
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Let’s see if I got this right. Just when the football program at the University of Virginia could not slide any further downhill along comes these announcements.
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Jim Reid is gone from the University of Virginia after his defense finished fourth in the Atlantic Coast Conference in total defense. Bill Lazor, meanwhile, continues to be employed after his UVa. offense finished eighth in the conference in total offense and ninth in scoring offense.
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The second 4-8 season in three years under Virginia football coach Mike London is ending with a bloodletting. London announced on Sunday the firings of defensive coordinator Jim Reid, recruiting coordinator Jeff Hanson, running-backs coach Mike Faragalli and tight-ends coach Shawn Moore, the demotion of special-teams coordinator Anthony Poindexter and the departure of rising senior quarterback Michael Rocco.
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The buzz at Fishburne Military School Thursday had to do with a particular gentleman wearing a sweater of a distinctive shade of blue on hand to watch the opener of the FMS Best Western Waynesboro Caisson Shootout. North Carolina coach Roy Williams was in the stands for the opener of the Shootout pitting Miller School and St. John’s Northwest Military School, ostensibly to see Isaac Copeland, a 6’9″ forward at Miller School who is getting serious attention from UNC, Virginia, North Carolina State, Missouri and Ohio State.
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University of Virginia athletics director Craig Littlepage issued a statement Tuesday addressing rampant speculation that the school is either mulling a move from the Atlantic Coast Conference to the Big Ten or has already begun making steps toward making such a move happen.
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UVa. football coach Mike London talks with members of the news media in advance of the Cavs’ game at Virginia Tech on Saturday.
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It’s official: Maryland is headed to the Big Ten. The University of Virginia should make the same move, for reasons at least partly similar to those that the folks in College Park had to consider.
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Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and university presidents Ed Ayers, Ángel Cabrera, John Broderick and Teresa Sullivan today marked the official launch of the Governor’s Holiday Hoops Classic Food Drive to benefit Virginia food banks.
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Virginia men’s head basketball coach Tony Bennett has announced the signing of guards London Perrantes (Woodland Hills, Calif.) and Devon Hall (Virginia Beach, Va.) to National Letters of Intent with the Cavaliers.
