ACC Players of the Week

AFP

Clemson redshirt-sophomore running back Andre Ellington and Miami senior defensive lineman Allen Bailey headline a list of six players recognized as the Atlantic Coast Conference Football Players of the Week, announced Monday by the ACC. Ellington rushed for a career-best 166 yards and added three scores as the Tigers topped Georgia Tech, 27-13. He finished…

UVa.-Miami game on ESPN

AFP

The Atlantic Coast Conference announced today that Virginia’s home football game versus Miami on Saturday will be televised by ESPN. The kickoff had already been announced as a noon start. The following information is confirmed regarding ACC Football games to be played on Oct. 28 or Oct. 30 (All times Eastern):   Thursday, Oct. 28…

ACC Players of the Week

AFP

Clemson redshirt-sophomore running back Andre Ellington and Miami senior defensive lineman Allen Bailey headline a list of six players recognized as the Atlantic Coast Conference Football Players of the Week, announced Monday by the ACC. Ellington rushed for a career-best 166 yards and added three scores as the Tigers topped Georgia Tech, 27-13. He finished…

UVa.-Miami game on ESPN

AFP

The Atlantic Coast Conference announced today that Virginia’s home football game versus Miami on Saturday will be televised by ESPN. The kickoff had already been announced as a noon start. The following information is confirmed regarding ACC Football games to be played on Oct. 28 or Oct. 30 (All times Eastern):   Thursday, Oct. 28…

Analyst: ‘Who will actually show up to vote?’

Chris Graham

We’re nearing the final week of the 2010 midterm elections, and one of the marquee races on the national stage next Tuesday night is right here in our backyard. Democrat Tom Perriello is trailing in the polls to Republican challenger Robert Hurt, a state senator from Southside who has run in many ways the perfect…

UVa. pulls away late to post 48-21 win over Eastern Michigan

Chris Graham

It was uncomfortably close uncomfortably late – 17-14 Virginia at the half, and 24-21 midway through the third quarter after the second of two 50-plus-yard touchdown runs by Eastern Michigan running back Javonti Green. A 70-yard kickoff-return TD by Terence Fells-Danzer changed the momentum, and another special-teams score, on a fake-punt pass by punter Jimmy…

UVa. pulls away late to post 48-21 win over Eastern Michigan

Chris Graham

It was uncomfortably close uncomfortably late – 17-14 Virginia at the half, and 24-21 midway through the third quarter after the second of two 50-plus-yard touchdown runs by Eastern Michigan running back Javonti Green. A 70-yard kickoff-return TD by Terence Fells-Danzer changed the momentum, and another special-teams score, on a fake-punt pass by punter Jimmy…

The AFP on WREL: Oct. 22, 2010

Chris Graham

AFP editor Chris Graham joins WREL’s “Online with Jim Bresnahan” to talk Virginia news and politics. The segment begins with Chris providing an update on the latest news in congressional races in the Fifth, Sixth and Ninth. Republicans appear poised to hold onto the Sixth District seat and take back the seat in the Fifth…

The building of a program: A progress report

Chris Graham

I swear I could hear some Al Groh coming out of Mike London. The first-year UVa. football coach had just been asked by a reporter how he could maintain his positive approach to his rebuilding effort in the face of the Cavs’ third consecutve blowout ACC loss, 44-10 to rival North Carolina. London was noticeably…