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Clemson senior running back C.J. Spiller racked up a career-high and ACC season-best 312 all-purpose yards en route to being named this week’s Atlantic Coast Conference Offensive Back of the Week, announced today. The honor is Spiller’s first Offensive Back of the Week selection, but third overall this season, as he was named Specialist of…
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And it’s a small thing, because Waynesboro isn’t going to turn an election one way or the other all by itself. But my experience as the Democratic Party chair in Waynesboro the past couple of election seasons can be instructive nonetheless. It strikes me that I hadn’t even bothered to look at how Creigh Deeds…
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Keep calling it “socialism” and referring to the Obama administration as “Nazis” and “Communists.” That strategy will lead Republicans back to familiar territory – losses on Election Night. Virginia Gov.-elect Bob McDonnell is showing the national GOP another approach, AFP editor Chris Graham says in today’s installment of The Rant. Not that Capitol Hill is…
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I just found out this morning that a good friend, Tim Baker, is scheduled to undergo surgery to remove a brain tumor tomorrow. Talk about sudden – Tim and I play on a rec-league basketball team together, and our last game was two weeks ago. According to his Facebook Wall, he found out about the…
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MINUS: Can we make it official now? The Al Groh Era is over. Nine years into the run, Groh can’t field a competitive football team. That was plain and obvious Saturday. It wasn’t just the score – though 52-17 is, ugh, you know, it’s atrocious. Worse, far worse, are these numbers – 515 yards total…
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Story by Chris Graham Dave Norris sort of fell into the lap of Big Brothers Big Sisters. And Big Brothers Big Sisters needed something to go right after its most trying year in its 30-year history. “We are extremely optimistic about where we’re headed. Getting Dave on board was huge. We’ve had a year or…
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PLUS: Ryan Williams comes back in style He had three yards on his first four carries, and ESPN analyst Lou Holtz was saying he was running tentative after his late fumble cost the Hokies in their 20-17 loss to UNC last week. Williams promptly busted off a 46-yard, three-broken-tackle run, and ended the night with…
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So he wasn’t dead after all. Though we’d been told that he was dead for several hours. And his name wasn’t Nader. Or isn’t Nader. (Because he’s still alive. He’s not a was. He’s an is.) It’s Nidal. Or Nadal. (Or something.) He did graduate from Virginia Tech. Not in 1997, as had been reported….
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The most frequent question that Head Coach Shaka Smart received leading up to the 2009-10 season was about how his Virginia Commonwealth University basketball team was going to replace Eric Maynor. The class of 2011 showed part of that plan with juniors Larry Sanders (Fort Pierce, Fla.), Brandon Rozzell (Richmond, Va.) and Joey Rodriguez (Oviedo,…
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Friday, Nov. 6 MR. GIBBS: Good afternoon. Let me – I’m going to start with a couple of things. I was going to do a week ahead but, as you might imagine, the week ahead prior to leaving for Asia is a bit in flux. As that gets filled in throughout the rest of today,…
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