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Excerpted from Mad About U: Four Decades of Basketball at University Hall, by Chris Graham and Patrick Hite In an effort to set a new Virginia women’s basketball single-game attendance record, the promotion that helped set the current mark 22 years ago is back on Nov. 22 vs. Tennessee – Hot Dog Night. All Cavalier…
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Staff Report Frank Spaziani – Boston College Opening Statement: Sunday we got our seventh win of the season and our first road victory of the year. It was a hard-fought contest, but we are ready to look forward towards next week’s game against North Carolina.
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Staff Report QUESTION: How have you seen Clemson’s offense evolve this year? COACH GROH: A lot of it has to do with the development of Kyle Parker as the quarterback. For those of you who are not familiar with his background, this is a superior athlete. And I would use his resume, not my opinion…
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Staff Report The Virginia Department of Transportation will hold a public hearing concerning improvements to Route 640 (Goose Creek Road) in the Fishersville region of Augusta County. The meeting will take place from 4 to 7 p.m., Wednesday, December 16 at the Preston L. Yancy Volunteer Fire Department located at 2015 Jefferson Highway, Fishersville, Va….
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Staff Report Dabo Swinney – Clemson Opening Statement: I am really proud of our guys. Defensively we held Florida State to 17 points. It was a great job by our defense with five takeaways. Offensively, I was very pleased with our balance. I think it was 242 pass and 241 rush, so that was good….
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Dear EarthTalk: I don’t understand why many people oppose wind power just because they have to look at the turbines. If you ask me, wind turbines are much nicer-looking than coal-fired, waste-to-energy or nuclear power plants. – Michael Hart, via e-mail Whether it’s a wind farm, a coal-fired power plant, a nuclear reactor or even…
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Friday, Nov. 6 MR. GIBBS: Good afternoon. Let me – I’m going to start with a couple of things. I was going to do a week ahead but, as you might imagine, the week ahead prior to leaving for Asia is a bit in flux. As that gets filled in throughout the rest of today,…
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I hopped into Mr. Peabody’s Wayback Machine, fastened my seat belt and set the dial to the year “1959.” The destination: the 50-year reunion of the Montevideo High School class of 1959 the evening of Oct. 24 held at the Clear Spring Homestead west of Dayton. I was invited to bring my stax of wax,…
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Week of Monday, Nov. 2 Dabo Swinney – Clemson Opening Statement: It was a good win last week. I thought our team responded well to an emotional win at Miami and went back to work. For the most part we played well, and it is always good to play a lot of guys. It has…
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Story by Chris Graham They didn’t have a chance. A group of young men from Bedford, about an hour and a half down the Blue Ridge Parkway from Waynesboro, were among the first Allied soldiers to storm the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944, D-Day. The Bedford Boys, they are known to us now,…
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