A-Line Extra One of the most vicious and mean-spirited campaigns in the history of Danville politics ended Tuesday with the re-election of Incumbent Republican businessman Danny Marshall to his seat in the 14th District of the Virginia House of Delegates. Marshall held off a strong challenge mounted by Twenty-something unemployed slacker Adam Tomer. Tomer, the [...]
What a difference a week makes. Seven days after fans of Virginia Tech were sent into the depths of despair and after 100+ years of football, Boston College finally produced a second highlight, the tables were turned. It was fans of the ACC’s other Tech leaping from the roof of the Coca-Cola building. Oh, and [...]
Sometimes a game is just a game. I did not attend last Thursday’s Tech loss to Boston College. It was the first home game I had missed in a very long time. And, not only was I not among the rain-soaked Hokies witnessing fifty-six minutes of good football, I wasn’t watching on television, either. The [...]
There are times when events cause me to expand my scope a bit beyond the usual parameters of Virginia Tech and ACC sports. This is one of those times. In the summer of 2003, amid the wreckage of what was once the Big East Football Conference, a couple of athletics directors at schools left behind [...]
My enforced idleness continues. Week 2 of the pneumonia portion of the season found me again spending a Saturday not in Wallace Wade Stadium but again watching football from my recliner. It is getting a little tiresome. The Tech team didn’t seem to miss me, Vince Hall or even Tyrod as they administered their annual [...]
There is good news and bad news. The good news, obviously, is that the Virginia Tech football team is now batting .500 in trips to a Death Valley this season. Things went considerably better at the Clemson version. As for the bad news, Tech still appears to not have anything closely resembling a decent offense [...]
My bags are packed, I’m ready to go. A few hours after this communication is posted, I will be heading out for my first road trip of the 2007 football season. I will be taking the scenic route, traveling from Danville to Roanoke, then setting out Friday morning for South Carolina, collecting fellow travelers from [...]
It has become a Sunday ritual during football season. While I usually spend fall Saturdays chasing the Virginia Tech football team around the countryside, after returning home the rest of the weekend generally kicks off with my reading of message boards. You can learn a lot. There is not only riotous entertainment to be had, [...]
Another week, another game. Football was played at Lane Stadium Saturday, sort of. Scores were recorded, checks were exchanged. The most interesting part of the weekend, however, came Friday across campus from the stadium. As for the game, Tech used its defense and special teams to pound an overmatched William and Mary team into submission [...]
You blink your eyes a few times and it gets away. That is certainly the way it seems this 2007 football season. You turn your back and fully one quarter of it is gone. You have to keep your eyes on it every minute. Barely past the middle of September, three of the year’s twelve [...]
