The first football game I covered was a 52-7 drumming of St. Francis University at Lynchburg’s City Stadium, Sept. 4, 2010. Mike Brown and Chris Summers teed off that game and made covering the story easy enough. After the game, I interviewed Brown and Summers in a quiet, shaky voice. That’s when Chancellor Jerry Falwell Jr. walked up to talk […]
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If the spring game may be used as any indication, we’ve learned a few things about Turner Gill’s 2012 football squad that takes its first snap against Wake Forest in less than 130 days. Big D The 2012 Flames looked like the Bears of the early 80s, the Steelers of the 70s or the modern day Baltimore Ravens — teams […]
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Liberty University’s feasibility study analyzing the implications and requirements of jumping to an FBS program will be presented to the powers that be March 20. I really hope Liberty gets the green light to announce its intentions to court bigger conferences because, quite frankly, the Big South is feeling awfully repetitive lately. We’ll call it the Bryce Harper Phenomenon. You […]
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This article is not nitty. It’s not gritty. It’s not slimy or grimy or scandalous. Quite the opposite, in fact. This article will tip its hat to a group of guys who left a distinct impression on a guy they didn’t have to humor or care about. This article will highlight a group of guys who took the chance to […]
Read moreLast week one of the most shocking, disgusting and unbelievable scandals ever to rock the NCAA ripped through the nation. Joe Paterno was fired. Why? Nobody really knows. A lot of people think they know. But the Penn State Board of Trustees who fired him said themselves they “were still investigating details.” Most people regurgitate the rumors they’ve heard. “He […]
Read moreHere are some crazy facts: according to cancer.org, approximately 192,000 cases of breast cancer are diagnosed every year in the United States, accounting for one in every four cancer diagnoses in American women. Men are 100 times less likely to be diagnosed, at the rate of one in every 1,000. Over 40,000 women die each year from the disease, as […]
Read moreAsa is back. Asa Chapman, the mountainous All-American nose tackle that was dismissed indefinitely from the Flames football team after news of a felony cocaine charge and misdemeanor marijuana charge just over a month and a half ago. Chapman’s Sept. 12 court date was postponed until Dec. 7, well after the Flames regular season closer against Stony Brook and in […]
Read moreHey Kevin Fogg, would you characterize your speed as “explosive,” or “incendiary?” Cruising 88 yards for a touchdown in less than 12 seconds is one of the two. Danny Rocco pegged Saturday night’s affair with Robert Morris as a payback game for last years’ road loss as well as an opportunity to make a statement to the rest of the […]
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