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Column by Jim Bishop The clean-cut group, The Brothers Four, hit the music scene in a big way in 1960, and then quietly disappeared with the advent of folk-rock and the British invasion. Members Bob Flick, John Paine, Mike Kirkland and Dick Foley formed in 1957 as fraternity members at the University of Washington in…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Listen to today’s “SportsDominion Show,” featuring interviews with UVa. basketball coach Dave Leitao and Virginia Tech basketball coach Seth Greenberg. Injuries have decimated Virginia’s already thin front line. That’s why we’re seeing more of freshman forward Mike Scott. “It’s a little unfair for him, it’s a little unfair obviously for…
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General Assembly Report by Rob Bell After the shootings at Virginia Tech, a lot of attention was focused on improving Virginia’s mental-health commitment system. I was appointed chairman of a special subcommittee to review these bills, and on Friday, the committee approved seven major proposals …
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] He was on the good end of a 12-hour shift. “It’s 2:30. Just a few more hours, and then I get to go home,” Dwayne Schwartz told me as he drove us across the city of Waynesboro today in a dump truck equipped with a plow to move snow from…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] It’s not the football game, but … It is still Virginia–Virginia Tech. And at least one of the teams in Wednesday night’s game in Charlottesville will be pumped a little more than usual heading in. “Playing Virginia Tech is always a challenge for us as it would be for both…
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Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen I started working on my review of “The Bucket List” on the way to the theater. After all, I’d seen the coming attractions several times. Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman play two quirky old geezers, both dying of cancer, who go off on a toot in a…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] When you’re a TV weatherman, a trip to the local burger place can be a challenge not unlike the 10K races that Eric Pritchett runs when he’s not standing in front of a television screen telling us what Mother Nature has in store for us tomorrow. “What’s it going to…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] When you’re a news reporter – print, radio, TV – it comes with the job that sometimes you have to rush to the scene of a car accident or fire or some other such catastrophe to tell folks what is going on. And it doesn’t make it any easier that…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] We’ve come to that time of year when I try to show you how smart I think I am by efforting at making calls in local election races. OK, so what I’m really trying to do is give us all something to chew on until the numbers start rolling in…
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Virginia Tech Basketball Preview by Niemo www.techhoops.com News partner to The SportsDominion Outlook Let’s skip right to my conclusion before I give the evidence. Gone are a lot of points (4,500, to be approximate) and leadership. With the extreme youth, inexperience, and lack of proven leadership on the 2007-08 Hokie team, anything over .500 is…
