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Charlottesville High School alum Larry Mitchell made MLB debut 30 years ago (opens the original)
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Charlottesville native Larry Mitchell was in the bullpen at old Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia on an August day 30 years ago, having just been called up from Triple-A by the Phillies. Radford native and ex-Virginia Tech star Mike Williams (144 career saves) was making a rare start for the home team, and it wasn’t going well. Williams allowed six runs while retiring just four batters against the Houston Astros – and suddenly Mitchell was being summoned from the bullpen to make his MLB debut. “I
Tyson Brown: From Woodstock to Radford to Slovakia for a hoops career (opens the original)
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Many American men who head overseas to play pro basketball after college are in for a culture shock, since several of them have never been to another country. That has not been a problem for Virginia Beach native Tyson Brown, whose college career ended at Radford last March when the Highlanders lost to Presbyterian in the Big South Tournament in Johnson City, Tenn. Brown, who did a post-graduate year in Woodstock at Massanutten Academy, had been to Italy, Greece and Germany on family trips befor
Western Albemarle grad Chris Madison takes over as EMU softball coach (opens the original)
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Chris Madison has deep baseball roots in the area, as he played at Western Albemarle High School and was involved in local American Legion ball, in addition to playing in college at Southern Virginia and Ferrum, for the Charlottesville Tom Sox in the Valley League and in the Rockingham County Baseball League for the Elkton Blue Sox. “I played in 2014 and 2015. Some of the best summers of my life as a college kid,” he wrote to the AFP of his time in the RCBL, when he was an All-Star. Now it is an
Fort Defiance grad makes switch from Bridgewater to EMU (opens the original)
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If basketball is a microcosm for life – the highs and the lows – then Marsha (Houff) Justice has certainly encountered a wide range of emotions in her coaching career. A graduate of Fort Defiance High School who played one year of basketball at Liberty University in 1991-1992, Justice was an assistant at Bridgewater College under three head coaches: Sarah Mathews, Jason Asbell and the current leader, Stephanie Flamini. Mathews is now the coach at Guilford, while Flamini, with 421 career wins, is
The parallel careers of Virginia-born MLB sluggers Willie Horton and Justin Upton (opens the original)
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Willie Horton was born in Arno in Southwest Virgina; Justin Upton was born in Norfolk in the Tidewater region. Besides being natives of Virginia, the former Major League Baseball sluggers had a lot more in common: David Driver is a native of Harrisonburg and grew up in nearby Dayton. He played baseball for one year at Eastern Mennonite University before graduating in 1985 with a degree in English and a minor in journalism. A former sports editor of papers in Virginia and Maryland, he is a member
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