UVA football: Not throwing in the towel yet

Chris Graham

Not that anybody in Wahoo Nation wants to hear this, necessarily, but the UVA football team still has a lot to play for in its final four games. For example, a Coastal Division title? The last two ACC Coastal champs had two losses, which could very well mean tht Virginia, at 2-2 in the ACC, is still in the thick of things.

Virginia joins multi-state coalition supporting economic, environmental and health benefits of clean air

Chris Graham

Attorney General Mark Herring announced today that Virginia will join a coalition of seventeen other states and seven major municipalities taking legal action to support the Clean Power Plan, a national pollution-reduction strategy that will combat the impact of climate change on Virginia’s economy, coastal communities, the military, agriculture and forestry industry, and the health of Virginians.

Assessing Frank Beamer: The man who put Virginia Tech on the map

Chris Graham

A whole generation of future engineers, agricultural scientists, business majors, writers and teachers grew up thinking that heaven was a home football fall Saturday in Blacksburg, Va. That is because of one man who by rights should have been fired after going 2-8-1 in 1992, his sixth season at Virginia Tech, and only got to stay on because then-athletics director Dave Braine saw something that nobody else did at the time.