
Poll: Who should be the next UVa. football coach?
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What do you think?
Who should the next UVa. football coach be?
Let your voice be heard in our ACCVirginia.com poll.
And feel free to comment on your choice below.

Pol to head up education transition Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Chris Saxman’s career in the House of Delegates is winding down. Could a new avenue be opening up with a possible job in the McDonnell administration? “Obviously that’s natural speculation,” said Saxman, who this week confirmed that he is co-chairing the Bob McDonnell transition…

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Story by Scott German UVa. sports: www.virginiasports.com Scoring 28 of his game-high 32 points in the second half, Talor Battle led the Penn State Nittany Lions past Virginia 69-66 in the opening game of this week’s ACC-Big Ten challenge Monday evening in John Paul Jones Arena. It was a game of momentum, as Penn…

Staff UVa. sports: www.virginiasports.com ACCVirginia.com will be live at tonight’s ACC-Big 10 Challenge matchup pitting Penn State and UVa. at the John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville. Contributor Scott German will be reporting from courtside. Editor Chris Graham will be joining in from the home office due to a touch of the flu bug…
Before we get to the next UVA Football coach topic, I have a commentary on a point raised in Daily Progress sports editor Jerry Ratcliffe’s column on the sacking of Al Groh. Ratcliffe wrote that it was “bush league” for the athletics department to have informed the news media of Groh’s dismissal before he could…

Staff Report ACC sports: www.theacc.com Virginia Tech freshman running back Ryan Williams—this week’s Atlantic Coast Conference Rookie of the Week—scored four touchdowns against Virginia to tie the ACC single-season record for rushing touchdowns and set the ACC freshman record for scores, while Wake Forest senior quarterback Riley Skinner had a career day in his…

Staff Report EMU news: www.emu.edu They are three men on a mission – seeking to serve up an appetizing smorgasbord of eclectic music that may otherwise not hit the local radio airwaves. John L. Horst, Ted Grimsrud and Jim Bishop produce and host weekly programs on public radio station WEMC, 91.7 FM. They do…