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Virginia Guard Shares Plans to Workout For Raptors Ahead of NBA Draft
Reece Beekman may be a prospect worth monitoring this summer.The 22-year-old point guard is the kind of defensive nuisance and point-of-attack the Toronto Raptors so desperately need to backup Immanuel Quickley going forward and, according to Beekman's agent, Toronto has already scheduled a workout with Virginia senior.FULL AUDIO @NBA Draft 2024 Prospect @reece_beekman in advance
May 10, 2024
Virginia to honor former players killed in shooting at home opener vs. JMU on Saturday
The “UVA Strong” game will honor Devin Chandler, Lavel Davis Jr. and D’Sean Perry on Saturday in Charlottesville, Virginia. (Lee Coleman/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)Virginia football will honor three former players who were killed in a shooting on campus last year in a pregame ceremony ahead of the Cavaliers’ home opener next week.Virginia will honor
September 5, 2023
Virginia is bailing on a carbon cap-and-invest program. Activists say that might be illegal.
After a blazingly hot stretch of summer in early July 2022, the skies broke open over Buchanan County, Virginia. Floodwaters damaged almost 100 homes and destroyed miles of road in the rural, overwhelmingly low-income mountain towns that dot the region. In the wake of the devastation, local officials spent $387,000 compiling a flood preparedness plan.
August 28, 2023
West Virginia basketball makes impression, has a chance for another
West Virginia wanted to make an impression during their stay at the PK85 in Portland and while it wasn’t quite as strong as it could have been, the message was still well received.This Mountaineers basketball team finished 2-1 in the three-game tournament falling to only eventual champion Purdue in their most competitive game of the
November 29, 2022
Virginia Governor Urges Parents to Rat Out Schools for Teaching Kids About “Divisive” Topics Like Racism
One of the great hypocrisies of the modern Republican Party is its insistence that its members are all about limited government, when in reality they love themselves some totalitarianism. An aspiring dictator who thinks he alone should get to decide the outcome of elections? State legislatures that decree what pregnant people can and cannot do with their own…
January 25, 2022
Virginia Gubernatorial Candidate Appeals to Taylor Swift Fans In New Campaign
The ads also contain images of Swift and Youngkin and the hashtag #WeStandWithTaylor, which fans used to support the singer amid the controversy.In 2019, Braun’s Ithaca Holdings acquired Big Machine Label Group — and with it, the entire catalog Swift released via the Scott Borchetta-owned label — in a $300 million deal. Following the deal,…
October 7, 2021
There is a virtual tie in the Virginia gubernatorial race between former Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) and Republican nominee Glenn Youngkin, with less than a month left before the polls close. The latest Emerson College/Nexstar Media poll revealed with less than one month out from Election Day, McAuliffe has a one-point lead in the poll against Youngkin, 49 percent…
McAuliffe vs. Virginia Parents: Who Knows Better?
Peter Wood, The Spectator October 2, 2021
October 2, 2021
Virginia governor’s race: What does ‘pro-business’ mean in a pandemic?
For years, Republican candidates have cast themselves as “pro-business” by hewing to a platform of tax cuts and deregulation. But 18 months into a global pandemic, the definition of “pro-business” may be shifting, with many voters now seeing the economy and public health as inextricably linked. In Virginia’s gubernatorial election, where polls show a tight race…
September 28, 2021