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I’m struggling to explain how a quadruple amputee ended up in Charlottesville after police say he shot a man in Maryland, then drove a couple of hours to Central Virginia to check himself into a hospital. Story online: augustafreepress.com/news/quadrup... #cornhole

VCU announced on Monday that it has extended the contract of Phil Martelli Jr., who just wrapped a 28-win season in his Year 1 with an upset of UNC in the NCAA Tournament. Story online: augustafreepress.com/news/vcu-ext...

Virginia, literally the last team announced into the NCAA Tournament field, the second from the First Four to win its way into the second round, is now the first from the First Four to play its way into the Sweet 16. Story online: augustafreepress.com/news/uva-bas...

I’m about to get myself in trouble here, but in terms of the best UVA Basketball seasons that ended too soon, those who have been fans long enough know, there are a lot of them, and we’ve all got feelings about them. Online: augustafreepress.com/news/uva-bas... #UVA #uvabasketball #collegebasketball

I’m about to get myself in trouble here, but in terms of the best UVA Basketball seasons that ended too soon, those who have been fans long enough know, there are a lot of them, and we’ve all got feelings about them. Only at UVA. augustafreepress.com/news/uva-bas... #uvabasketball #collegebasketball

I’m about to get myself in trouble here, but in terms of the best UVA Basketball seasons that ended too soon, those who have been fans long enough know, there are a lot of them, and we’ve all got feelings about them. augustafreepress.com/news/uva-bas... #UVA #uvabasketball #collegebasketball

I’m writing this from the 30th Street Amtrak station in Philly, so, not only not even home yet, but as I’m putting thoughts to tablet, I just got out of the Uber that drove past the Xfinity Mobile Center, where our 30-win UVA Basketball season just ended. Online: augustafreepress.com/news/uva-bas...

39 hours ago Trump gave Iran a 48 hour deadline. Iran responded by saying “You’re Fired” and Donni Dollhands just retreated. If Americans had said the same in 2024, we wouldn’t be here today.

If you were to show up at an airport in a tactical vest that said ICE on it and a temporary Punisher tattoo you get from a gumball machine you could do some real bad shit right now. Granted you'd have to cosplay as a guy with a lobotomy who can't do a pushup.

All that work that we did to put an ever-so-slightly left-of-center majority on the Waynesboro City Council over the past two election cycles, and the reward for us is: they’re still letting the MAGA do-nothings run the city. Online: augustafreepress.com/news/waynesb... #waynesboro #waynesborova

I just read the postgame transcript, and it’s definitely a good thing I didn’t ruin the UVA Basketball presser with questions about the actual game that was played tonight. Story online: augustafreepress.com/news/thats-a... #UVA #uvabasketball #NCAATournament #MarchMadness #collegebasketball

Virginia attacked the rim a lot more than Tennessee did – 25 shots at the rim to 15 for UT. At the least, you would expect the free-throw attempts to be a decent amount in favor of the ’Hoos. Story online: augustafreepress.com/news/uva-bas... #NCAATournament #MarchMadness #collegebasketball

#9 Virginia notched its third straight ACC weekend series win with a 14-4 run-rule win over #24 Wake Forest on Sunday. Story online: augustafreepress.com/news/uva-bas... #UVA #uvabaseball #collegebaseball #baseball #sports

The NCAA made a mistake and gave me some other writer’s seat on the floor.

It’s been 20 years since Donald Trump bragged that, as a star, he could do anything — even assault women — and get away with it. Column online: augustafreepress.com/news/power-w... #DonaldTrump #politics

What’s wrong with college sports: the guy at the bar in the media hotel here in Philly. Story online: augustafreepress.com/news/whats-w... #NCAATournament #collegebasketball #MarchMadness

Syracuse is making the splash hire to try to replace Jim Boeheim a second time, going with another Boeheim acolyte, Gerry McNamara, who just had Siena thisclose to an upset of #1 Duke in the NCAA Tournament. Story online: augustafreepress.com/news/syracus... #collegebasketball #syracuse

VCU losing starting guard Nyk Lewis in the first minute wasn’t why the Rams lost to #3 seed Illinois on Saturday, but it sure didn’t help. Story online: augustafreepress.com/news/vcu-fal... #vcu #NCAATournament #MarchMadness #collegebasketball

Donald Trump is in the midst of an epic Donald Trump bender. This one, with applause for the death of Robert Mueller, and a threat to commit war crimes in Iran, might be the Donald Trump bender of all Donald Trump benders. Online: augustafreepress.com/news/trump-a... #DonaldTrump

Good move by the local organizing committee for our next No Kings protest, which will be held next Saturday, March 28, in and around the Gypsy Hill Park Bandstand in Staunton, a few blocks away from downtown. augustafreepress.com/news/no-king...

The Nelson County Board of Supervisors is positioning the county as a MAGA haven, in a move that might not be good for its business base. Online: augustafreepress.com/news/nelson-...

Live your life in such a way that pedophiles and rapists despise you.

UVA Swimming has won its sixth straight women’s team national championship, taking the top honor at the 2026 NCAA meet that concluded on Saturday in Atlanta, Ga. Story online: augustafreepress.com/news/uva-swi... #UVA #uvaswimming #swimming #collegeswimming

Oh. Stage an assassination attempt, you say? Interesting.

I wrote on Thursday, on the train to Philly, about the one concern I had for UVA Basketball heading into its first-round NCAA Tournament game – that for seven of the nine rotation guys, it would be their first NCAA Tournament game. Online: augustafreepress.com/news/uva-bas...

Kymora Johnson had 28 points, Sa’Myah Smith had 22, and #10 seed Virginia outlasted #7 seed Georgia, 82-73, in OT, on a day when temperatures in the Carver-Hawkeye Arena in Iowa City, which doesn’t have AC, got into the low 80s. Story online: augustafreepress.com/news/womens-...

Ideally, Tennessee runs its offense through the duo of point guard Ja’Kobi Gillespie and power forward Nate Ament, but Ament, a sublime talent, is limited by a gimpy right ankle that UT coach Rick Barnes concedes won’t fully heal until the season is over. Online: augustafreepress.com/news/uva-bas...

LEFT: 1960s Robert Mueller, a wounded and highly decorated soldier in Vietnam. RIGHT: 1960s Donald Trump, a draft dodger at reform school, not athletic enough to make the team so picking up jock straps as “staff.”

Allison Sheets, a fourth-year UVA nursing student, is heretofore to be known as Alli Brackets, a name that I’m giving her because she was among the final 0.01 percent of folks with a perfect bracket in the 2026 ESPN NCAA Tournament Bracket Challenge. Online: augustafreepress.com/news/alli-br...

Remind us- what do Republicans think should happen to immigrants who commit fraud? We’ll hang up and listen

Tennessee coach Rick Barnes starts three guys 6’10” or taller, though they don’t play together that much, outside of the first three or four minutes. Story online: augustafreepress.com/news/ncaa-to... #UVA #uvabasketball #collegebasketball #MarchMadness #NCAATournament

Three former Tony Bennett-Ron Sanchez UVA Basketball alums advanced with their teams to the second round of the 2026 NCAA Tournament. Story online: augustafreepress.com/news/former-... #UVA #uvabasketball #collegebasketball #basketball #NCAATournament #MarchMadness

Eric Becker homered, Joe Tiroly and Harrison Didawick each drove in three, and Henry Zatkowski notched win #4 of the season, as #9 Virginia opened a weekend series with #24 Wake Forest with a 10-6 win on Friday night at The Dish. Story online: augustafreepress.com/news/uva-bas...

Virginia’s 57-55 win over Arizona State in Thursday’s First Four ended at 11:17 p.m. Postgame interviews, getting on the bus, maybe they got back to the hotel by 1 a.m. Online: augustafreepress.com/news/womens-... #uvabasketball #collegebasketball #womensbasketball #NCAATournament #MarchMadness

What was Sam Lewis thinking, tossing the ball at TJ Burch after Burch was whistled for a reach-in foul with 5:32 to go, Wright State up one, 68-67. #UVA #uvabasketball #collegebasketball #basketball #NCAATournament #MarchMadness Story online: augustafreepress.com/news/ncaa-to...

Jacari White had 26 points on 10-of-12 shooting, 6-of-8 from three, with seven points and an assist in the final 4:07, as #3 seed Virginia closed on a 15-3 run to get past #14 seed Wright State, 82-73, on Friday in Philadelphia. Online: augustafreepress.com/news/uva-bas...

We’re getting close to seeing gas prices up a dollar a gallon since the start of the undeclared war in Iran. Story online: augustafreepress.com/news/gas-pri... #gas #DonaldTrump #iran

Home sales in Virginia were up 12 percent in February from January, with a staggering median sales price: $410,000. These numbers are from the Virginia Association of REALTORS® in its February 2026 Virginia Home Sales Report. #RealEstate Online: augustafreepress.com/news/home-sa...

North Carolina led VCU by 19 with 14:58 to go, by 14 with 6:13 to go, but the Heels ran out of gas, entirely because head coach Hubert Davis, who might not be long for the job, dramatically shortened his bench. Online: augustafreepress.com/news/ncaa-to... #vcu #UNC #CollegeBasketball #MarchMadness

Local Democrats are bound and determined to f—k up the 2026 midterms, to a point where I’m wondering if it will do us any good to pass the redistricting referendum, and still lose to the feckless Ben Cline. Column online: augustafreepress.com/news/democra... #Congress #politics #Democrats

If you’ve never been in an arena for an NCAA Tournament game, it can be hard to know just how tense it is just to be there. #UVA #uvabasketball #collegebasketball #basketball #NCAATournament #MarchMadness Online: augustafreepress.com/news/uva-bas...

FCC chair Brendan Carr wants to change a federal rule so that the Trump-friendly Nexstar Media Group can buy out the Northern Virginia-based Tegna, in a move that would give Nexstar reach into 60 percent of U.S. households. Online: augustafreepress.com/news/state-a... #DonaldTrump #FCC #nexstar

At the risk of stating the obvious, it’s at least possible that two members of Waynesboro City Council want to call the Trump regime over the Multicultural Festival that Waynesboro Public Schools held at Kate Collins Middle School on Tuesday. Story online: augustafreepress.com/news/waynesb...

UVA and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello just rendered their supposed highest honor, a Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal, utterly meaningless, with the move to give one of their 2026 medals to Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts. Story online: augustafreepress.com/news/uva-set...

Good rule to follow – if you have anything medical going on, don’t Google it or rely on AI. This is doubly true when it comes to a potential poisoning. Story online: augustafreepress.com/news/uva-hea... #UVA #UVAHealth #PoisonControl

Midweek staff days are rough, especially the back end of two. As #9 UVA found out on Wednesday, in a 14-12 win at Liberty that was a 14-4 game at stretch time. augustafreepress.com/news/uva-bas...

Don’t know who the play by play guy is, but it sounds like a local high school stream is missing its star guy.

Will Wade throws his NC State squad under the bus one last time www.youtube.com/watch?v=otI2...

Kymora Johnson grew up in Charlottesville, went to school at St. Anne’s-Belfield, practically on Grounds. Story online: augustafreepress.com/news/uva-bas... #UVA #uvabasketball #collegebasketball #womensbasketball #MarchMadness #NCAATournament