I believe tonight’s Virginia Tech win over Wake Forest was a big one for head coach Brent Pry.
Not in the sense of leading to a championship of some kind this season. But since he’s become head coach, there’s been...
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...
Today, I'm going to preach, so have your money ready when the collection plate is passed.
The sermon is about believing. Faith. Taking an opportunity and turning it into something.
Just like Virginia Tech’s football team is doing.
You see, if you...
There are a lot of positive things that could happen if Virginia Tech beats Tulane in tomorrow’s Military Bowl, but only one thing matters to me, and it’s been on my mind for four long years.
Yeah, it’s nice to...
On February 6, 1967, Muhammad Ali was fighting Ernie Terrell in the Houston Astrodome for the heavyweight championship of the world. He was angry. Formerly known as Cassius Clay, he had changed his name to Muhammad Ali and Terrell...
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...
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...
As I normally do on a Saturday morning, I got a cup of coffee, fired up the X-machine and went looking for news I’d missed overnight. Among the items I saw of interest was the San Francisco 49ers hiring...
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...