Yesterday Virginia Tech basketball picked up a commitment via the transfer portal from Robbie Beran, a 6-9 forward-center from Northwestern, and I’ve got to say, I’m probably more impressed than most are about this.
The Hokies definitely got some good...
I know I’ve been hammering this “small world” theme the last couple of days, but I experienced something yesterday morning that is on my mind, and makes me want to talk about it one more day.
I had dropped by...
If you’ve been a sportswriter AND a sales guy in your life, you’ve told thousands of stories.
I know I have, and I’ve never written about the one I’m about to tell. But it is by far my favorite, plus the...
In August, the goals for this Virginia Tech football team were pretty simple: Win 6 games, beat Virginia, play in a bowl game.
At times during the season it appeared they wouldn’t make it that far. At other times...
If you’ve ever spent any time meandering the mean streets of the social media world and are a Virginia Tech fan, you have undoubtedly crossed paths on X/Twitter/whatever Elon is calling it today with Clark Ruhland.
Posting under the handle...
I don’t want to overstate this, but the importance of Saturday’s game between Virginia Tech and N.C. State is ginormous. Humongous. Massive.
Big.
Why you ask? Well, I was reminded of the answer to this this morning when on social media...
Let’s take a walk back in time to the early 1980s.
These were not the best of times for Virginia Tech’s football program. The Hokies were not thought of as a big-time program, despite their stated goal of trying to...
It was March of 1973, Bobby Stevens hit a last-second overtime jumper to give Virginia Tech an NIT championship, and I went running through my house in Norfolk as only a teenager can do, yelling and screaming about how...
There is an old saying that goes something like “when they tell you who they are, believe them.”
If Virginia Tech’s football team ever told me that, I would believe them. Except after watching Saturday’s loss to N.C. State, it...
Last night, I posted something about the state of the Virginia Tech athletics program after yet another depressing loss by the football team, and in doing so, committed a sin I have often scolded others for doing.
I identified a...