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Wake Forest at Virginia Tech: Oct. 16 Riley Skinner won 31 games and led Wake Forest to the Orange Bowl in 2006. Ancient history now. Riley’s gone. “That’s the good thing about having smart kids at Wake Forest. They finally figured out by the end of spring ball that Riley wasn’t coming back,” Wake coach…
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Virginia Tech at N.C. State: Oct. 2 Talk about the pressure being on. Tom O’Brien left Boston College for supposedly greener pastures within the ACC at North Carolina State. Recruiting is supposed to be easier at a state school like N.C. State than at a private school like BC. Not to mention that Boston is…
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North Carolina at Virginia: Oct. 16 Virginia Tech at North Carolina: Nov. 13 Butch Davis didn’t come to Chapel Hill to win eight games a year. The former University of Miami and Cleveland Browns head man is at North Carolina to win championships. If UNC is going to make the leap from middle-of-the-pack status to…
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Miami at Virginia: Oct. 30 Virginia Tech at Miami: Nov. 20 A 9-4 season in year three of a rebuilding job is good enough at most schools, but Miami isn’t most schools. Meaning the pressure is on UM alum Randy Shannon to produce in year four, or there might not be a year five. Shannon…
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Maryland at Virginia: Nov. 13 There’s not much you can do to dress up a 2-10 season. Maryland coach Ralph Friedgen doesn’t try to. “It’s not something that we talk about daily, but they know the score. I kind of like it like that myself. I kind of enjoy that kind of motivation,” said Friedgen,…
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Virginia at Georgia Tech: Oct. 9 Georgia Tech at Virginia Tech: Nov. 4 It’s hard to be too down on Georgia Tech. The Yellow Jackets are getting some Top 25 love, after all. But the talk in the preseason as far as the ACC is concerned is about the tough Coastal Division with Virginia Tech…
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Florida State at Virginia: Oct. 2 Change is the order of the day at Florida State. “We changed our offseason workout program,” said first-year head coach Jimbo Fisher, who takes over for the legendary Bobby Bowden after a subpar 7-6 season in Tallahassee in 2009, beginning the list of changes instituted by Fisher since assuming…
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Duke at Virginia Tech: Oct. 23 Virginia at Duke: Nov. 6 Thad Lewis made his debut in the NFL in a preseason game with St. Louis on Saturday. Which is great for Duke football, in one way of looking at it, having Lewis, one of only two quarterbacks in ACC history to throw for 10,000…
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Sixth District Libertarian candidate Stuart Bain talked with beer connoisseurs at Microfestivus in Roanoke over the weekend, and a chief topic of discussion was Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell’s plan to get the Commonwealth out of the liquor business. “I think it’s a step in the right direction, but it doesn’t go far enough,” Bain told…
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A Virginia Beach native and Montebello transplant, and former White House executive chef, Richard Christy, has launched a multifaceted cabin and studio venue nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Combining 30 years of experience in the culinary and hospitality industry with his artistic background in preserving the art of carving traditional waterfowl decoys, Christy’s Rock-n-Creek…
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