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UVA Basketball  alum Jenny Boucek would obviously be somebody whose agent you’d want to contact about the coaching vacancy in the UVA women’s hoops program.

First-team All-ACC guard Kymora Johnson is entering the transfer portal, and there is one possible, quite logical, landing spot for her – on the roster of legendary UVA point guard Dawn Staley down at South Carolina.

Rugby is American football, without pads and helmets, and without mass substitutions – and if you’re bleeding after a hit, nothing to it, ’tis but a scratch. “I hate being pulled out, even just to catch my breath. I want to be out there for the full 80 minutes,” said Perry Allen, a member of the  Virginia Rugby Football Club , which will host the Virginia Beach Falcons on Saturday at VFW Post 1827...

To the UVA Basketball fans who thought they wanted Will Wade over Ryan Odom, and you know who you are, Wade not only already lost his way out of his first NCAA Tournament at NC State, with last night’s last-second defeat in the First Four, but he’s also a loser.

I’ll be heading to Philly on Thursday to cover the first weekend of the 2026 NCAA Tournament, with a focus on #9 Virginia, which opens play on Friday as the #3 seed in the Midwest Region. On the podcast, I offer insight into what we’ve learned about the first-round opponent, #14 seed Wright State, the champ of the Horizon League. I also offer a travel itinerary – I get to be a tourist, too, in bet...

Beth Macy did a sitdown with me for this week’s “Street Knowledge” podcast. Macy is a triple threat: journalist, bestselling author (Dopesick), and now, congressional candidate – running for the Democratic Party nomination in the Sixth District in Virginia. We talked at length about her work on Dopesick and her most recent book, Paper Girl, which has the hook of Macy revisiting her rural Ohio home...

You want to know what I really think about how UVA Athletics treats people? You already know that I’ve been going to bat for fans who are getting screwed out of a home football game so that the fat cats can have an excuse to go to Brazil. And how I feel about the this is not a reseating reseating policy for UVA Basketball that is pricing a generation of fans out of their seats. What you didn’t kno...

Let’s see if the ‘Hoos can get back on track Tuesday night against a Wake Forest team that seems to be better than me than its 15-14 record would seem to indicate. The Deacs played Duke better in Cameron, lost by one in OT to Michigan – that one was back in November, but still. And they’re 4-2 in their last six. I wouldn’t look past them, is what I’m saying.

Thijs de Ridder hit an open three at the 17:02 mark, his second basket in the opening three minutes. We didn’t know it at the time, but  Virginia ’s next bucket wouldn’t come for another seven and a half minutes. A Chance Mallory three on a fast break got the ‘Hoos to within 19-12 with 7:52 to go, but three Duke threes – by Darren Harris and Dame Sarr – in the next two minutes pushed the lead to 1...

Tom Perriello knew when he cast his vote for the Affordable Care Act in 2010 that it may very well cost him his job as a freshman congressman. He did it anyway. Because it was the right thing to do. Imagine that. “I think when we think about what we do right and what we don't do right, what people remember is when we stand up for people,” said Perriello, who is back in the political game, running...

The 70-66 win over Ohio State on Saturday night was the sixth in a row for the UVA Basketball team, but, man, nothing comes easy for this group, does it? Selfishly, gritty wins are good for writers and podcasters, because there’s more to write and talk about. ICYMI: UVA vs. Ohio State Preview: What UVA Basketball fans need to know about Ohio State UVA Basketball: ‘Hoos rally with D down the stretc...

I think it would be helpful to know how the University handles accusations of the nature currently involving former UVA Football wideout Jahmal Edrine, who was indicted by an Albemarle County grand jury last week on rape and abduction charges, in an incident reported to police on Aug. 25, 2025. We’ve got an inquiry into UVA to learn more. In the meantime, we’re examining how the NFL would have han...

This Jahmal Edrine story isn’t one that is fun to report on. It involves a victim that UVA is not acknowledging, a young man who is facing criminal charges that could change his future course, and people who get paid good money to know better who don’t seem to have acted like they know better. Do you sense the anguish? That’s this podcast: anguish.

Augusta County Commonwealth’s Attorney Tim Martin , in the matter of the Dec. 17 officer-involved shooting of Dustin Griffin, is acting more like a defense and civil attorney for the  Augusta County Sheriff’s Office  than he is presenting as an elected prosecutor representing the people of Augusta County.

Fair or not, we can’t take the Augusta County criminal-justice apparatus at its word that there’s no there there with respect to the shooting of Dustin Griffin, 42, by two sheriff’s deputies on the night of Dec. 17. In this podcast, I go over where we are with the investigation, which is still ongoing, even as the Commonwealth’s Attorney, Tim Martin, has already decided to exonerate the deputies w...

UVA Basketball dominated from the jump in a 76-61 win at NC State that wasn’t that close. We dive into the game, and coach Ryan Odom’s technical foul – with detailed analysis on how the ‘Hoos did at Odom Ball. Then we spend some time breaking down the first couple of days of moves on the UVA Football transfer portal. Story links UVA Basketball: ‘Hoos rebound from three-OT loss at Tech, defeat NC S...

Solid email this morning from Alan, regular reader, on the Tech-UVA game, the kind of good that got me to think through what we know, to this point, in Year 1 of Ryan Odom, about our new-look  UVA Basketball  program. The key points from Alan: We were bullied, even taking into account the whistle swallowing. If we’re not gonna run a scheme like the Pack Line, better brainstorm fast how we’re going...

Shocker, right, that I got emails from a trove of White guys who think a young Black man named J’Mari Taylor should consider it a privilege to entertain them. How dare the kid prioritize his future earning potential when our favorite college football team needed him out there to win an exhibition game. That, you know, they won anyway, without him.

Two years after graduating from Waynesboro High School, Reggie Harris was taken by the Oakland A’s in the 1989 Rule 5 draft, and he made the team – the defending World Series champs – out of spring training in 1990. “I’m just watching the previous World Series that year, in ’89, the earthquake series with San Francisco, and two weeks later, I’m on that team,” said Harris, who joined me to talk abo...

We’ve been going practically non-stop since August, but now, we’ve hit a lull – UVA Football and UVA Basketball are both on an exam break, with no games for a week. What do we talk about? We’ll think of something. UVA Football: Decisions still need to be made on the three coordinators UVA Basketball: How are last year’s guys doing at their new schools? UVA Football: ‘Hoos losing Ja’Son Prevard, Ty...

Andrew Hypes  has spent the last two years travelling all over the world: Paris, London Romania, Vegas, Poland and California, to name a few. After growing up in  Waynesboro , Virginia, population 23K, it’s a little surreal: working in Dr. Dre’s studio, flying on private planes, standing in front of the Eiffel Tower – the real one, not the one at Kings Dominion – all stemming from his role as the...

NASCAR settled the suit brought by two racing teams alleging violations of federal antitrust laws on Thursday. The details of the settlement are only trickling out, but we have enough to begin to get a sense of how things are going to play out going forward. AFP contributor Rod Mullins joins the show to break down what we know.

It’s UVA-Virginia Tech football week, so I got the gang together to preview the game, and we do, eventually. But first: why are tickets so ridiculously expensive? Scott German joins me to rain down furious anger on the folks at UVA Athletics, who seem intent on money-grabbing us out of a big crowd for the Saturday primetime game. Then we direct some upset at the medical staff, for allowing Kam Rob...

Leaks of internal communications between top NASCAR executives both hurt the racing series’ legal challenge from two NASCAR teams, and are also causing massive damage to the circuit in the court of public opinion. With the trial in the antitrust lawsuit set to begin next week, Rod Mullins, the editor of Dickenson Media, joins the show to report on and break down the latest developments in the case...

Virginia Tech has officially welcomed James Franklin to Hokie Nation. Will Franklin be the guy to get Tech Football back to where it was … 15 years ago now? Yeah, it’s been awhile. I had Scott German join me to discuss. We also both give UVA Athletics administrators hell for moving the 2026 NC State home football game to Brazil. We wrap with a lengthy love letter to Ryan Odom Basketball. It’s actu...