
W&L’s Leah Naomi Green wins Walt Whitman Award for Poetry
Leah Naomi Green, a professor of English at Washington and Lee University, was selected by Li-Young Lee as the winner of the 2019 Walt Whitman Award.

Leah Naomi Green, a professor of English at Washington and Lee University, was selected by Li-Young Lee as the winner of the 2019 Walt Whitman Award.

Oregon is a 12 seed. Easy win. Right? Nah. The Ducks (25-12) have won 10 straight, and remind me of one of those Harold Deane-era UVA teams from the early to mid 1990s. The ones that had Cory Alexander, and then didn’t, and had to adjust to life without him, and eventually did.

Virginia Tech coach Buzz Williams and players Ahmed Hill and Kerry Blackshear Jr. speak with reporters on the Flames’ win over Liberty in the 2019 NCAA Tournament.

UVA baseball (12-10, 4-4 ACC) broke a 4-4 tie in the bottom of the eighth by plating three runs en route to a 7-5 series-clinching victory over Pittsburgh (7-14, 1-7 ACC) on Saturday at Disharoon Park.

UVA basketball coach Tony Bennett and ‘Hoos players Kyle Guy and Ty Jerome talk with reporters on the eve of Virginia’s second-round NCAA Tournament game with Oklahoma.

For two schools that are separated 94 miles from one another, Liberty traveled 2,750 miles across the country to face Virginia Tech in the Round of 32 in the NCAA Tournament.

At its March meeting this week, the Commonwealth Transportation Board (CTB) took action on the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel (HRBT) Expansion Project.

More than 6,600 people gave during Virginia Tech’s Giving Day, which began at noon on March 19 and ran through noon on March 20.

The fourth annual Paint Staunton Quick Draw Art Competition and Wet Paint Sale promises fun for professional artists, amateur artists, budding young artists and collectors of original art.

Consider that if you kill a police dog, you could face a longer prison sentence than if you’d murdered someone or abused a child.
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