A look at MLB players from the 2026 season who were born in Virginia
With a few weeks left in the 2026 Major League Baseball season, 30 players born in Virginia have appeared in at least one MLB game this year.
With a few weeks left in the 2026 Major League Baseball season, 30 players born in Virginia have appeared in at least one MLB game this year.
The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services has broken ground on expansion projects at regional animal health laboratories in Harrisonburg, Lynchburg and Warrenton.
Here we go again, with the Virginia Department of Health needing to put out a release to tell people that vaccines are safe, this time the focus being, flu, COVID-19 and RSV.
Virginia Tech wasn’t the only ACC program to open its season on Saturday with a layup drill – Syracuse beat New Hampshire, 66-3; Pitt beat Miami, 59-14.
Preseason #11 Virginia, off to a 1-3 start, dominated previously unbeaten Boston College from jump in a 2-0 win in the teams’ ACC opener on Friday night at Klöckner Stadium.
Rutgers scored late in the fourth quarter to make things interesting, but #5 Virginia held on to complete a 2-1 win in the squad’s opening match of the Big 10/ACC Challenge at the Bauer Track and Field Complex in Piscataway, N.J., on Friday.
Tenth-ranked Tennessee got out to an early lead, #12 Virginia got an equalizer two minutes into to the second half, and the teams stalemated from there on their way to a 1-1 draw on Thursday at Klöckner Stadium.

Some amount of our tax dollars are going to a Virginia Tech-Virginia Tourism rollout of a “Virginia is for Hokie Lovers” promotional campaign, which will accomplish, what exactly?
Willie Horton was born in Arno in Southwest Virgina; Justin Upton was born in Norfolk in the Tidewater region.
It’s hard to win playing 9-on-11, as the ‘Hoos learned in the 2-1 loss to Florida Gulf Coast on Monday night at Klöckner Stadium.
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