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Cincinnati scored two minutes into its first BCS game, and then Bud Foster’s defense took control, forcing four Bearcats turnovers and holding the Big East champs scoreless for the final 58 minutes in a 20-7 Virginia Tech win in Thursday’s Orange Bowl. The Associated Press reporting. Length: 0:52.
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Join us tonight at 8:30 p.m. for a Live Blog during tonight’s Orange Bowl between ACC champion Virginia Tech (9-4) and Big East champ Cincinnati (11-2). The game is being broadcast nationally on Fox. AFP editor Chris Graham will lead a live in-game discussion of the goings-on with analysis and commentary. Please feel free to…
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North Carolina is not going to go undefeated. Sorry, Heels fans. Of course, y’all were probably already aware of that. Because the ACC is, well, the ACC, and it’s practically a given that somebody is going to be there in any given year to knock off a league power. Who will it be this year?…
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Looking back on it, wouldn’t it have made sense to have started doing something about our transportation-infrastructure limitations, I don’t know, maybe a few years ago when the economy was relatively purring and the dollars were available to address the traffic jams in NoVa and Hampton Roads and the clogged arteries inhibiting commerce statewide?
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We’ve heard from the politicians howling about Tim Kaine proposing a tax increase during a recession. There’s another side howling over the governor’s proposed 30-cent increase in the state cigarette tax.
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It’s going to be hard for me not to back Creigh Deeds for the ’09 Democratic Party gubernatorial nomination, if only for all the personal reasons that I ought to have for doing so. Consider … we’re both from rural, rural, rural Virginia. As opposed to just plain ol’ rural Virginia. Bath County and Deerfield…
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AFP editor Chris Graham will be live on WINA-1070AM’s “Charlottesville-Right Now!” with Coy Barefoot at 4:30 p.m. to talk about the top stories of the year in Virginia politics. Otherwise, it’s looking like a slow news day.
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Bobbie Lawson still doesn’t sleep the night before the first day of school. “I think as long as I have that energy, then, that helps a lot,” said Lawson, a fifth-grade teacher at Bessie Weller Elementary School in Staunton, the 2008 Staunton Teacher of the Year.
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One thing is for sure when you ask Creigh Deeds a question. He’s going to give you an answer, and it’s not going to be one of those politician answers where you think afterward that he really didn’t give too much away. “The things that I talk about aren’t things that people have told me…
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The spread didn’t work when Mike Groh implemented it this year. But Al Groh seems intent on giving the offensive scheme another look. “Gregg is in the front of the pack in the development of offensive schemes that will be versatile and exciting for our players,” Al Groh said in announcing former Bowling Green head…
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