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Column by Chris Graham I’m not buying it for a second, though I guess that makes me the butthead. “When I visited the guy in the glass,” Groh said after reading the last line in the poem “The Man in the Glass” at what turned out to be his final press conference as the head…
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Groh goes out in verse Story by Chris Graham Photos by Mark Miller With AFP Audio A reporter’s question on Al Groh’s status at the University of Virginia following the Cavs’ 42-13 loss to in-state rival Virginia Tech prompted the nine-year head football coach to pull out a piece of paper. True to form, the…
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One day left in the Al Groh Era at UVa. ACCVirginia.com editor Chris Graham analyzes what went wrong for Groh at his alma mater, talks about his admiration for Groh’s pluck in thinking his ’09 Cavs could at all be competitive in the ACC, and offers advice on what Groh should do following tomorrow’s season…
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Waynesboro man spearheads effort to breathe life into Marine Corps War Memorial Story by Chris Graham [email protected] It started, appropriately enough, with Jim Donovan’s concern over the tattered flag flying over the Marine Corps War Memorial. The effort to restore glory to the Old Glory looking down at the scene harkening back to the historic…
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Column by Chris Graham It’s come down to this – win or lose on Saturday against archrival Virginia Tech, Al Groh is done at Virginia. We all know that going in. Interesting that his players even seem to have bought into the notion as well. Senior quarterback Jameel Sewell, talking with reporters on Tuesday, said…
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Column by Bob Goodlatte www.goodlatte.house.gov On Nov. 9, 1989 the world watched as a wall in Berlin, Germany crumbled to the ground in one of the greatest triumphs of freedom in history. Twenty years later, we mark the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the victory of freedom over communist…
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Column by David Reynolds Tomorrow is truly an American holiday. It is one of the few which remains faithful to its origins. Thanksgiving 2009 will be like Thanksgiving 2008 and all the other Thanksgiving’s before it. Thanksgiving is always a peaceful day. So, peace is on my “Thank you” list. Did you know that “9/11”…
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Column by Jim Bishop Many who actually read these weekly ramblings are aware that I’m a creature of habit. I operate by a regimented timetable with little elbow room for alteration. When I come home in the evening and tell my spouse that I “had a good day,” she replies, “So, you got a lot…
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Staff Report Opening Statement: When you talk about Virginia, we are familiar with a lot of their personnel. They have had a lot of injuries, but they are getting some of those guys back. They play very tough and are relentless. They keep coming after you. If you look at last year, that was a…
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Story by Chris Graham The investigation by a House of Delegates panel into the actions of former State Del. Phil Hamilton relative to a job at Old Dominion University created through state funds that he had pushed for in the General Assembly came to an end this month when the panel decided that it had…
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