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The Virginia athletics department will present two new 30-minute installments of the popular “Building of a Program” television show the weeks of Aug. 20 and Aug. 27 on Comcast SportsNet
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Kobe Bryant threw down the gauntlet with a comment before the London Olympics that the 2012 USA basketball team was better than the famed 1992 Dream Team that rolled to gold in the first Olympic competition to feature NBA players
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U.S. Senate candidate Tim Kaine toured The Williams Company, a third-generation manufacturing and machining facility in Bristol, on Friday
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Myrtle Beach lit up Potomac starter Rob Gilliam for ten runs in four innings as the Pelicans took the rubber match of a three-game series 11-2. The P-Nats dropped five of six games to finish their road trip with a 17-42 overall road record — the worst in MiLB
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Michael Almanzar made history by reaching base in his 16th consecutive plate appearance, Keith Couch tossed the first nine-inning complete game of Salem’s season, and the Salem Red Sox steamrolled the Pelicans 6-1 on Wednesday evening at LewisGale Field
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You raise the good question, “How can Andy Schmookler win when his opponent has access to so much more money than he has?” The question could be rephrased, “How can People Power defeat the Money Power in America today”
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Jay Leno had just one request: Please tell my favorite joke. Central Virginia native Brett Leake wasn’t sure which joke the “Tonight Show” host was referring to, so he had to ask
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The James Madison football team is slated for five televised league games, including three at home, as part of the Colonial Athletic Association’s televised football package
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Recently, the story broke that foreclosures were at the lowest level since 2007. That sounds like great news—we’re finally cleaning up the mess from the real estate bubble. Except for one thing: RealtyTrac.com, a marketer of information on foreclosed real estate, noted in April that the number of short sales (where a bank allows an owner to sell for less than is owed on the mortgage) were up by 33 percent from last year
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Increasing opportunities for adults in our community through increased literary skills, a number of organizations are providing over $15,000 in funding support to LEARN (Learn English and Reading Now, Inc.), while several new members of the nonprofit’s Board of Directors and a new program coordinator have been announced
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