The last Saturday in June always brings an event I rather look forward to each year. That would be the Alderson Family Reunion. This year was no different. The annual gathering of the descendants of Richard Cephus and Sallie Adams Alderson was held last Saturday. Although both had checked out by the time I made [...]
The closing acts of the college sports season has brought us a monumental upset. A fairly unusual defense strategy was employed in a lawsuit directed at an ACC member. And a comedic icon has left the stage. There are a few intriguing headlines floating just ahead of the impending Dead Zone. It is human nature [...]
The days are dwindling down. A fortnight or so of the baseball version of the College World Series is all that stands between us and two months of Dead Zone barren landscape. Even now, the Sports sections of the various newspapers I read on a daily basis are carrying practically nothing of worthwhile value. This [...]
In retrospect, we should have seen it coming. More than once as I flipped over to observe snatches of that ludicrous 6 ½ hour Belmont pre-race show on both ESPN and ABC, 400 minutes of hype devoted to a 2-minute race, the question popped into my head: Who is watching all of this? The answer [...]
05/29/08 It is World Series time. Shortly after this is posted, the Virginia Tech softball team will begin play in the Women’s College World Series. Superstar pitcher Angela Tincher and the rest of the Tech team will be testing themselves against the best there is in the 8-team field. In a way, it will be [...]
05/27/08 The party continues for the Virginia Tech softball team. A week after acting as a sandman to Tennessee’s season in the Knoxville regional, the Hokies rolled into Michigan to tangle with the Wolverettes in the super-regional. After spotting Michigan the opening game to make things interesting and increase ESPN face time for star pitcher [...]
05/12/08 The news during this Dead Zone month of May might be scarce, but there is a bit to be found. It ranges from what has become my annual viewing of a softball game to Little Johnny and his ACC minions trying, again, to figure out how to maintain the league’s television gravy train. It’s [...]
Other Things 02/14/08 It was another quiet Alderson’s Birthday. Once again, as I do every February 13, I arose and quickly checked the day’s calendar to determine what events and celebrations I would be attending to mark the holiday. Once again, I discovered there were none. After several decades, I am starting to get the [...]
I recently got around to watching the replay of the Virginia Tech- Florida State game. It was immensely satisfying to observe Frank again flinging the Bowden Monkey off his back and relieving to see that between the end of the game I saw and the time Comcast replayed it Tuesday night Bobby had not found [...]
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 [...]
