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Virginia men’s basketball head coach Tony Bennett has promoted assistant coach Ron Sanchez to associate head coach. Sanchez has served as an assistant coach at Virginia for the last six seasons after holding the same position on Bennett’s staff at Washington State for three seasons from 2007-09.
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Full text of the annnouncement from former U.S. Sen. Jim Webb that he will seek the Democratic Party nomination to run for president in 2016.
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Nellie Rodriguez hit his 10th home run of the season, and Luigi Rodriguez went 3-for-5 with a double and an RBI to pace the offense in a 6-2 Hillcats victory Wednesday night at Frawley Stadium.
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The Potomac Nationals (36-39 Overall, 21-17 Home, 3-2 Second-Half) used a 9th inning walk-off double from SS Stephen Perez blasted to right-center field to down the Carolina Mudcats (37-38 Overall, 14-22 Road, 3-3 Second-Half) by the final score of 6-5 in the series finale of a three-game series at Pfitzner Stadium on Tuesday evening.
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Congressman Robert Hurt (R-Virginia) recently introduced the Supporting Home Owners Rights Enforcement (SHORE) Act, H.R. 2929, along with Congressman G.K. Butterfield (D-North Carolina), Congressman Bob Goodlatte (R-Virginia), Congressman Morgan Griffith (R-Virginia), and Congressman Markwayne Mullin (R-Oklahoma).
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A Virginia Commonwealth University engineering professor has received a $5 million grant to develop a more cost-effective way to manufacture two important drugs used to treat HIV and AIDS.
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How nice was it to be Nats starter Jordan Zimmerman Tuesday night? Zimmerman took the mound in Atlanta in the bottom of the first with a 4-0 lead, and cruised from there, holding the Braves scoreless on six hits in seven and two-thirds innings, in a 6-1 Washington win.
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Lynchburg capped off a series sweep of the Salem Red Sox with an 11-4 win Tuesday morning at LewisGale Field at Salem Memorial Ballpark. Every member of the Hillcats recorded a hit in the game, totaling 15 hits in the contest.
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Augusta Free Press editor Chris Graham talks sports with WREL host Jim Bresnahan – focusing on the Washington Nationals and Baltimore Orioles, wrapping last week’s College World Series win by 2015 national champion UVA, and sneak peeking ahead to the upcoming college football season.
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As we celebrate the birth of our great nation, we remember all of those who have sacrificed so much so that we may be free and those who continue to defend our American way of life for future generations.
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