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Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley have agreed to a friendly wager on the Virginia Tech vs. Clemson University ACC Championship football game on Saturday. Haley has wagered that if Virginia Tech wins, she will send South Carolina barbecue from Hudson’s Smokehouse to McDonnell. Should Clemson win, McDonnell will send Haley…
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Sens. Jim Webb and Mark Warner today announced that the U.S. Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology will invest $212,800 in GENEDGE ALLIANCE, a statewide manufacturing support program based at Patrick Henry Community College in Martinsville, Virginia. Both Senators have consistently supported federal funding in Congress for the program, which supports industrial…
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Virginia head coach Mike London was named the Atlantic Coast Conference Coach of the Year, as announced by the league on Tuesday. London becomes the fifth different UVa head footballcoach to garner coach of the year accolades. London joins a list of Bill Elias (1961), George Blackburn (1968), George Welsh (1983, ’84, ’89, ’91, ’95) and…
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State Del. Bob Marshall has introduced bills adding coaches or athletic directors of private sports teams (HB 3) and institutions of higher learning (HB 4) to the list of those who are required to report child sexual abuse, and other similar abuse, to local authorities. “The indifference and inaction of coaches at the University of…
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The Virginia State Police are investigating a fatal motor vehicle crash that occurred on November 15, 2011, on the campus of James Madison University. The crash occurred at 9:52 pm at the intersection of Carrier Drive and Bluestone Drive. The crash involved a transportation bus owned by the City of Harrisonburg and a pedestrian which…
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QUESTION: Can you talk a little bit about the opportunity that major collegiate athletics and a game like this affords for raising awareness of causes and diseases like this? COACH LONDON: When you have an opportunity that’s presented with a platform such as this, with a guy like Coach Fisher—a well-respected coach in college football…
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WVPT congratulates Kevin Camden of Charlottesville as the winner of its Fender Telecaster electric guitar giveaway. Kevin Camden, an IT specialist at the University of Virginia, was automatically entered in the guitar drawing after he signed up as a contestant in TALENTWAR$, the station’s first online video talent contest and fundraiser. TALENTWAR$, offering $6,000 in…
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Virginia opened the 2011-12 basketball season Sunday afternoon with a 75-38 win over South Carolina State University in John Paul Jones Arena. The Cavaliers were without the services of three players expected to play significant roles this season but it made little difference against the totally overmatched Bulldogs. Senior guard Sammy Zeglinski and freshman guard…
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It’s become a second-Wednesday-of-November tradition at Fishburne Military School. “It means the program is progressing. We’re doing the right things. We have guys matriculating on to four-year schools and universities,” said FMS postgrad basketball coach Ed Huckaby, who saw 10 of his players sign letters of intent with Division I college programs on Wednesday. The…
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The good news: Virginia’s surprise win at Miami last week has the Cavs in position to become bowl-eligible for the first time since the 2007-2008 season. At 5-3, and with winnable games at Maryland this weekend and at home against Duke on Nov. 12, UVa. seems a lock to get to six, and who knows…
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