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Best Seat in the House column by Chris Graham [email protected] Mike Krzyzewski is universally reviled in the parts of the ACC outside of Durham, but I have seen twice now how much he bleeds Atlantic Coast Conference blood. Back a couple of years ago, I famously asked Coach K about the perception that the conference…
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Story By Erin Gutzwiller Have you ever wondered how the ice cream that you eat is made, and more importantly, what it is made of? Most ice-cream connoisseurs do not know that the ingredients used to make ice cream are made from cheap and unhealthy ingredients. Which is interesting, because for me, eating ice cream…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Listen to today’s “SportsDominion Show,” featuring interviews with “Hokie Nation: A Team, A Town and the Best Darned Fans in College Football” producers Sean Kotz and Chris Valluzzo. Show Length: 23:20. I have to say, I hated every minute of the movie “Hokie Nation: A Team, A Town and the…
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Listen to “The SportsDominion Show” for a postgame wrap featuring interviews with Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski and UVa. coach Dave Leitao. Show Length: 20:04. Virginia came out like a team primed for an upset. Duke was primed for something else. The sixth-ranked Dukies held UVa. scoreless for a six-minute stretch of the first half to…
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General Assembly Report column by Del. Ben Cline With the final week of the 2008 General Assembly session upon us, 100 delegates and 40 senators have begun to close up their Richmond offices and return to their homes, families, and communities to discuss the accomplishments of the past 60 days. But just as we began…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Listen to today’s “SportsDominion Show,” featuring an interview with John Goodwin of The Humane Society of the United States. Show Length: 11:12. It’s not often that you see legislation once viewed as highly controversial make it through a legislative session almost intact from the day it was introduced and passed…
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Best Seat in the House column by Chris Graham [email protected] The life of a sportswriter … I had a 9 p.m. Sunday deadline to get my ACC women’s basketball postseason honors ballot back to the appropriate people for counting purposes. I wanted to catch a game or two Sunday afternoon before turning it in, and…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Listen to “The SportsDominion Show” ACC Basketball Monday interview with Virginia Tech coach Seth Greenberg. Show Length: 11:29. Things are rolling along for Virginia Tech. Back-to-back-to-back wins have the Hokies back on the NCAA Tournament bubble. Not that Seth Greenberg wants anybody to talk about that. He doesn’t like the…
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Column by Bob Goodlatte For many students and families, there is the promise of higher education. But for far too many others, the burden of tuition costs is seemingly insurmountable. In Virginia, undergraduate students are paying nearly 7 percent more in tuition and fees than they did last year. The skyrocketing cost of higher education…
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General Assembly Report by Rob Bell Last week, a compromise was reached between the Virginia House of Delegates, the Virginia Senate and Gov. Kaine’s office to reform Virginia’s mental-commitment laws. The new laws will constitute the most sweeping reforms of mental commitment in Virginia in 30 years. I authored several bills to address aspects of…
