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Virginia Tech almost couldn’t hold off a game Miami squad, but a clutch three late by senior Malcolm Delaney helped push the Hokies to a tight 72-68 win over the ‘Canes on Sunday. Tech (14-6, 4-3 ACC) led 40-30 at the half and maintained a seemingly comfortable six- to eight-point lead until the final six…
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Trailing 50-31 with over 13 minutes to go, James Madison used a full-court pressure defense and penetrating offense to go on a 30-11 momentum-swinging push to rally for a 77-71 win over Delaware in a Colonial Athletic Association men’s basketball game Saturday afternoon at the Bob Carpenter Center. JMU improved to 17-6 overall and 7-4…
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Wake Forest coach Jeff Bzdelik got his first ACC victory as his Demon Deacons rallied from a 10-point second-half deficit to knock off Virginia 76-71 on Saturday. Virginia (11-10, 2-5 ACC) led 48-38 midway through the second half. A 20-9 Wake Forest run gave the Deacs their first lead of the second half at 58-57.
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An 11-0 first-half run gave Fishburne a working margin over rival Fork Union, and the Caissons broke it open in the second half with a stretch of eight field goals in nine attempts en route to an easy 75-50 win in Saturday’s finale to the Virginia Military Postgrad Challenge. It was nip-and-tuck for the first…
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The Virginia baseball team has been named the favorite to win the ACC Coastal Division in the 2011 ACC Baseball Coaches Preseason Poll, released today by the conference office. It marks the second straight year in which the Cavaliers have been touted as the Coastal Division favorite – last year UVa made that pick stand…
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The midpoint in the 2011 session is fast approaching. Under the procedural rules adopted at the beginning of every session, the House of Delegates and the Senate must take final action on bills introduced in that body by crossover. The process would not work without self imposed time limits and rules, so by February 8…
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This week, President Obama gave his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress. It was encouraging to hear the President focus on the pressing need to get our fiscal house in order. Where there is room for consensus on these important issues that affect job creation, I look forward to working…
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Boy, I’m sure glad I live in Rockbridgeland . . . and not in Virginia. And that our three local governments can take the year off. After all, we were told that almost everything was accomplished in paradise during 2010. But that the Commonwealth has all sorts of problems, from textbooks to roads, from funding…
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The Screenwriting Workshop taught by Matthew Marshall and sponsored by the Waynesboro Cultural Commission has been postponed due to the weather. The new dates are Thursday, Feb. 3, and Thursday, Feb. 10. The workshops begin at 6 p.m. and will be held at the Wayne Theatre Alliance office at 533 W. Main St. in Downtown…
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AFP editor Chris Graham talks Virginia news and politics on WREL’s “Online with Jim Bresnahan.” The segment begins with … snow. Chris, for one, has had enough of it, though schoolkids aren’t seeming to mind the unexpected days off. Administrators will come SOL time this spring, Chris points out. The conversation then turns to politics….
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