A look at the five natives of Staunton who played Major League Baseball
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In all, five natives of Staunton made it Major League Baseball as players – and three of them were named Larry.
Search Results for Virginia State University
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Clemson fired its gymnastics coach: Why? Emotional misconduct
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One way to deal with allegations of emotional misconduct involving a coach is what the Piedmont Family YMCA and UVA Swimming have done with Gary Taylor: pretending that nothing happened, and hoping the story goes away.
Climate and Energy News Roundup: July 2025
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Jeff Heie, the founder and director of the local nonprofit GiveSolar, received a Faith Alliance for Climate Solutions 2025 Sustainability Champions Award.
Faculty, staff groups at UVA pushing Board of Visitors on forced departure of Jim Ryan
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A workers group is trying to organize resistance to the forced departure of UVA President Jim Ryan, and a faculty group is calling for an independent investigation into the role played by the UVA Board of Visitors into pushing Ryan out the door.
Former UVA Board of Visitors member dunks on outgoing president Jim Ryan in radio hit
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A reader asked me today, why didn’t UVA President Jim Ryan just comply with the Board of Visitors directive to shutter the school’s DEI office?
UVA leaders lay out how things will proceed with Jim Ryan’s pending departure
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Jennifer “J.J.” Wagner Davis, the executive vice president and chief operating officer at the University of Virginia, will assume the role of acting president upon the effective date of President Jim Ryan’s resignation.
UVA extended contract of coach two weeks after he was put on probation
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Gary Taylor, the associate head coach with the UVA Swimming program, is on a year-to-year deal with UVA Athletics.
Jim Ryan explains decision to step down as UVA president: ‘Real and direct harm’
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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.”
UVA President Jim Ryan resigns: Making sense of something that doesn’t make sense
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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.
Update: Trump DOJ pressuring UVA President Jim Ryan to resign
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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.
