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First recruit for Smart

VCU new men’s basketball coach, Shaka Smart, has landed his first recruit, a guard from Portsmouth — Darius Theus, a 6-3, 175, out of Norcom High.
Theus said he will sign a letter of intent today. “The timing was good between me and him,” said Theus, a second-team all-Tidewater selection this season after averaging 17.2 points, […]

Wanted: A point guard who can run like the wind

The late signing period for college basketball started on Wednesday. It runs through May 20. VCU’s new head coach of men’s basketball, Shaka Smart, has been highly praised for his recruiting skills. With at least two scholarships in hand, now we’ll see about that.
While the Rams are looking strong enough at positions two through five, […]

Wolf’s Save Our Schools blog

Former journalist and local school board member Carol A.O. Wolf has been active in discussions at several of the popular community news web sites in the last year. Now she has launched her own blog — Save Our Schools.
In the blog’s sidebar Wolf has a couple of quotes that give a reader some idea of […]

VMFA galleries to go ‘off view’ in June

Work on the VMFA expansion project continues with the Grand Opening set for May 1, 2010.

The Grand Opening of the expanded and transformed Virginia Museum of Fine Arts will be May 1, 2010, VMFA Director Alex Nyerges has announced. The new James W. and Frances G. McGlothlin Wing “is now sealed and protected from […]

Assault on Grace St.

On Apr. 17, at 2:04 a.m., an aggravated assault at 2720 W. Grace Street was reported by a male who said he was assaulted by three unknown males.
– The information above was provided by the RPD

Year of Actual Mushroom dance?

What year did the event on this handbill take place? And,
who designed the poster?

Fairness and truthiness

“That’s not fair!” is a commonly-used exclamation, employed more and more by those expressing disappointment that something hasn’t turned their way. Frequently it has little or nothing to do with the actual issue of “fairness.”
In days gone by, complaining about a lack of fairness usually had to do with equality issues. They were calls for […]

Sipping Kool-Aid and calling it tea

Teabaggers gathered in Downtown Richmond, to join with their counterparts coast-to-coast. At SLANTblog you can read exclusive commentary on the protest/party.
Still, what exactly the teabag tempest was about looked fuzzy to me. It came off as a rude bag of mixed metaphors and convoluted symbols. Like, was the protest over government spending? Over high taxes? […]

Smart fills out his staff

Three familiar faces around the state are the latest additions to the Virginia Commonwealth University men’s basketball staff with the announcement of assistants Mike Rhoades and Bill Courtney, along with Director of Basketball Operations Kyle Getter, head coach Shaka Smart announced Wednesday.
“I’m extremely ecstatic about the staff we’ve assembled. It possesses the ideal blend of […]

About Richmond’s slave jails in Shockoe Bottom

A piece I wrote for the new Richmond.com is up. Instead of focusing on Shockoe Bottom’s floods, its farmer’s market or randy saloons, this commentary is about righting the record of what was going on down there in the 1800’s, before the Civil War. And, get this — it makes no mention of baseball whatsoever.
“Doing […]

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