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AFP editor Chris Graham talks local and Virginia sports on WREL-1450AM’s “Online with Jim Bresnahan.” This week’s segment begins with a look back at Virginia Tech’s big win over then-#1 Duke. Did the victory cinch an NCAA bid for the Hokies? Chris thinks Tech still has some work to do, but the squad is looking…
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Former Virginia standout Ralph Sampson is one of eight members of the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame’s induction class of 2011. Sampson is the first Virginia player to be selected for induction into the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame. The induction class, which was announced on Monday (Feb. 28), includes players Chris Mullin,…
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Virginia Tech’s Jeff Allen has been selected as the ACC Player of the Week. In earning the Player of the Week award for the third time this season and fourth time in his career, Allen averaged 17.5 points, 11.5 rebounds and 2.0 assists as the Hokies posted key ACC wins over Wake Forest and Duke….
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The Harrisonburg-Rockingham Chamber of Commerce, in partnership with the Daily News-Record, is hosting its Regional Job Fair on Thursday, March 17, noon to 6 p.m. at the Harrisonburg First Church of the Nazarene, 1871 Boyers Road in Harrisonburg. This event is brought to you by the Shenandoah Valley Energy Partnership and the Workforce Investment Board….
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How shall we pay for roads? It’s a simple question but Virginia likes to make it difficult. Every year governors and the General Assembly wrestle with the question, yet fail to come up with a satisfactory answer. 2011 is no exception. Those running this state live in another state — the state of denial. As…
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It was great to be back in Central and Southside Virginia for the past week. I believe that my ability to be a good representative in Congress depends on listening to and hearing from the people across the Fifth District, and this past work week I had the opportunity to meet with a variety of…
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After World War II ended, thousands of GIs were guaranteed a college education by the newly passed GI Bill of Rights; however, many had been blinded in combat and were unable to read the textbooks that they had been given. Anne T. Macdonald, Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic’s founder, had been working at the…
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East Carolina scored four runs with two out in the second inning, and the Pirates made it stand up in a 4-3 win over the No. 10 Virginia baseball team Sunday afternoon at Davenport Field. Virginia, which dropped its first game in seven outings this season, scored single runs in the sixth, seventh and eighth…
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The No. 12 Virginia women’s lacrosse team used smart, clean and efficient play to upset No. 9 Syracuse, 21-10, Sunday afternoon in the Carrier Dome. The 21 goals scored marks the most the Cavaliers have ever scored against the Orange, while the win is the seventh-straight for Virginia in the all-time series with Syracuse. It…
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A Terrell Bell three-pointer tied the game with 4:40 to go and propelled a 17-7 game-ending run that lifted Virginia Tech to a 64-60 upset of top-ranked Duke before a frenzied Saturday-night crowd at Cassell Coliseum. Tech (19-8, 9-5 ACC) had led most of the first half, but Duke (26-3, 12-2 ACC) closed to within…
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