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The 30-win UVA Basketball team had one second-round pick in the 2026 NBA Draft, in Ugonna Onyenso, the backup center. Ryan Odom can squeeze value out of the talent, I tell you. I break down how Onyenso fits at the next level, and the impact of new NCAA eligibility rules on UVA Hoops, here in the pod.

We’re all tired of the headlines about the latest nonsense coming out of DC, and while we can’t change how we got here – 2016, 2020, 2024 – we can change things going forward. It’s not enough to snark online, to your spouse, among friends. I’m not the biggest fan of just going to rallies with signs, though if that helps you vent off some steam, by all means. The 2026 midterms are four months and c...

The right at 175,000 Social Security recipients in the Sixth District in Virginia could vote en masse for the party that has a plan for saving Social Security from going insolvent by 2032, and in so doing, get us moving toward saving Social Security from going insolvent by 2032. We all know that won’t happen. Sixty percent or more of that population will still vote for the MAGA incumbent, Ben Clin...

This time last year, UVA Basketball coach Ryan Odom was introducing a bunch of strangers to each other, and trying to convince them, and everybody else, that they could get Virginia Basketball back to where it had been not that long ago. Heading into his second summer as the head coach, Odom is building on a 30-win season, and it’s looking like he’s put together a roster for next season that … mig...

It was odd that Waynesboro and Staunton were each able to maintain their local daily newspapers for so long, given the realities of the media market, but we couldn’t keep the good thing going forever, it seems. The News Virginian, based in Waynesboro, let go its final remaining full-time news reporter earlier this year, and now The News Leader, based in Staunton, appears to be licensing out its lo...

“Late Show with Stephen Colbert” is no more, replaced by an infomercial, but AFP editor Crystal Graham is keeping the spirit alive. Crystal engaged fellow editor Chris Graham in a game of 15 questions, ripped straight from the 15 questions that Colbert would often lob at celebrity guests. How do our local Z list celebrities fare?

A situation similar to what we just saw play out with UVA Lacrosse coach Lars Tiffany could be in the works with the coach at UVA Men’s Golf,  Bowen Sargent . Sargent’s contract expires at the end of the academic sports year, on June 30, and word around the clubhouse is, the first offer on the table for an extension comes with his salary flat from what he signed for in 2022 – i.e., no raise.

Massive bipartisan majorities voted to pass the  Affordable Medicine Act  that Gov. Abigail Spanberger is signaling today that she plans to veto. State Sen. Creigh Deeds, D-Charlottesville, one of the authors of the legislation, which would create a Prescription Drug Affordability Board to review prescription drug prices and set payment ceilings on what certain state-regulated health plans can pay...

A Virginia man who used a MAGA social media platform linked to a former Trump aide to threaten Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, Barack Obama and former Trump FBI Director Christopher Wray, among many others, is, for now, at least, facing 30 months in prison. Who knows, Frank Lucio Carillo, 68, of Winchester, could end up being in line for some of that sweet Trump slush fund money for his troubles.

Will the real Abigail Spanberger please stand up, please stand up, please stand up? The one who ran for governor last year didn’t end up being the one who took the oath of office; that’s all we know now. We found this out this week, with her gutting of paid family and medical leave, and her veto of collective bargaining for public-sector employees. This is what Democrats do when they get elected;...

We eventually get around to breaking down the latest addition to the UVA Basketball rotation on our podcast, but first. Gotta start with how UVA Athletics is stonewalling me on the status of assistant swim team coach Gary Taylor, who is in Year 2 of a probation handed down in 2025 for emotional abuse of athletes at two other schools and a local YMCA. After going into detail on Gary Taylor, we talk...

We don’t want to be stuck with Ben Cline just because the feckless MAGA congressman was successful spending other people’s millions to convince four MAGAs on the Supreme Court of Virginia to overturn the April 21 referendum. Want to know more about Ben Cline than you ever knew before? Wrong question; you don’t want to know any more about Ben Cline than you have to. The Insane Cline Posse edition o...

Everybody has a breaking point. I got to mine today cleaning out the comment section on AFP on two of my recent UVA Basketball articles. Seems that a lot of folks want fanzine coverage of their favorite team. This ain’t the place to get your coverage, then. Want to know what a guy who has been covering the program for 30 years really thinks? That’s all I can do. I apologize in advance for the lang...

UVA Athletics is going to give us a chance to wine and dine our clients on the field at Scott Stadium this fall. The cost: $2,500 minimum. I’m going to hold out for something bigger, which I explain on this week’s rundown of what’s making news in UVA sports. Also, if you could, tell everybody you know to click on the YouTube version – I want to beat the viewer number for Seth Davis and Andy Katz f...

Rob Tracinski, running for the Democratic Party nomination in the new Sixth District, is – and hear me out on this – a former Tea Party guy. I know, a lot of y’all area already turned off, but. Hear him out, is all I’ll say here. Tracinski joined me today for what I’ll call good political conversation, since I don’t think of myself as an interviewer. We talked about his former Tea Party-ness, and...

I make my return to the podcast airwaves today with a deep dive into UVA Basketball and UVA Baseball. First, on the hoops: there’s no news, and I explain why, and apologize, because the silence is all my fault. Seriously. I’m the reason we’re all having to read the smoke wafting up from JPJ. Baseball: have to apologize here. I so desperately want the ’Hoos to get back to Omaha this year, and to be...

Actually, first, this week’s “Street Knowledge” acknowledges that, it’s going to be hot in our part of the world in the next few days – with temperatures forecast to get near or above 90 this week. A little early for that. Crystal Graham joins the show to keep me in line – good luck with that. Her job this week: to keep me on task talking about the April 21 congressional redistricting referendum....

Something is going on down at Virginia Tech, where the school’s president, Tim Sands, announced to Hokie Nation on Thursday, in a shock move, that he will be stepping down in the coming months. And it took a sports guy – not me – to figure it out.

TNA President Carlos Silva, obviously getting marching orders from big brother WWE, has forced Nic Nemeth, the former Dolph Ziggler, out of a May 1 indy match with AEW champ MJF, citing “partner conflicts.” Uh, huh.

Abigail Spanberger isn’t polling well right now, but I think I’ve got the solution. No, not better policies. I mean, a big part of the problem is that she’s not doing well with Democrats and independents, because she’s governing like a center-right Republican. We don’t fix bad poll numbers these days by course corrections. The solution: bombs.

Iran got Donald Trump to agree to a two-week ceasefire in which the Iranians basically give up nothing, and actually secured the right to charge tolls on ships navigating the Strait of Hormuz – and Ben Cline thinks this is “a beautiful thing.”

ESPN.com college basketball scribe Jeff Borzello has his “ Way-Too-Early Top 25 ” for next season out this morning, and has Virginia at #9.

Donald Trump, not at all off his rocker, is, today, threatening Iran with total genocide. “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will,” Trump posted on his Truth Social account, timestamp: 8:06 a.m. Tuesday. Deadline, per the post: “tonight.” Unless, from Trump, “different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail.”

The AWARE Foundation  is highlighting the cold case of James Davis Walker, who was last seen on April 7, 2000, in the Food Lion parking lot on Longwood Avenue in Bedford. Walker, known to friends and family as Slim – he was 6’7”, 140 pounds, at the time of his disappearance, at the age of 53 – may have been the victim of foul play, according to authorities.

A school bus driver in Lynchburg allegedly assaulted a student and has been arrested and charged with strangulation and child neglect.