Item by Chris Graham Waynesboro High School has a new girls’ basketball coach – and she knows the game at the highest levels. Secrett Stubblefield comes to WHS from two years of Euoleague basketball in Poland and Austria. The James W. Robinson High School (Fairfax) grad played at Okaloosa-Walton Community College (Niceville, Fla.) and in …
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Story by Chris Graham Dick Vitale thinks the ACC got a “raw deal” only getting four teams into the Big Dance last March Madness. The ESPN analyst and 2007 Basketball Hall of Fame nominee thinks the conference is going to get seven or maybe eight teams into the NCAA Tournament this year.
Story by Chris Graham It’s funny to think of now, but the people in charge of planning and designing University Hall actually had it in mind that they were going to end up with an arena that was going to serve many more purposes than simply hosting college-basketball games. “When you look at when …
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Column by Chris Graham Elizabeth Hood doesn’t look as fondly at raucous postgame celebrations that include fans rushing a college-basketball court as some of us might. “I stood up at my chair right there, and they knocked me over,” said Hood, a retired usher who worked University of Virginia athletics events for more than 30 …
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