Jun 5, 2010
|Column| Hampton Roads Daily Press
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- Mike London is used to coaching at academic-oriented schools
- The team's second-semester GPA was its best in 10 years
- London: Winning is a priority, but so are academics
Spare Mike London the trite, tired and patently false notion that the...
Nov 29, 2009
|Story| Hampton Roads Daily Press
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Daily Press
After all the losses to Virginia Tech, all the recruiting failures, all the staff instability and all the disappointment, the relationship just couldn't go on — and so it ended.
Virginia coach Al Groh was fired Sunday.
Groh's ninth and final...
Dec 4, 2009
|Story| Daily Press
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Daily Press
Bill Dee spent no time basking in Phoebus' first state football championship Saturday.
"You guys set the standard," he told his players. "Now, you young guys, we're not satisfied with just one."
The highest of standards.
Phoebus dominated Patrick...
Dec 7, 2009
|Story| Daily Press
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Daily Press
One of Virginia coach Al Groh's first hires as assistant coach doesn't need a map to get around Charlottesville or the state.
Mike London, a Hampton native with ties to the University of Richmond and William and Mary, will join the Cavaliers' staff as...
Dec 7, 2009
|Story| Daily Press
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Daily Press
A couple of months ago, Mike London found himself staring at a crisis.
This particular crisis stands 6-foot-3, weighs 185 pounds and was beating him in backyard basketball 10-to-9 in a game to 11. London had never before faced such a predicament.
``He...
Jan 9, 2010
|Story| Daily Press
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Daily Press
After 36 years of football coaching, it might be easy to assume Jim Reid has done just about everything he sought out to do in the profession.
To a certain extent, that's true. He spent 19 years coaching at the flagship university of his home state of...
Dec 7, 2009
|Story| Hampton Roads Daily Press
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Daily Press
The complete transcript from the Mike London press conference, as provided by the University of Virginia:
CRAIG LITTLEPAGE (director of athletics): Good afternoon, everybody. And we appreciate your taking time to be with us this afternoon to conduct some...
Dec 4, 2009
|Story| Daily Press
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Daily Press
Nearly 300 Virginia public high schools, from Newport News to Nandua, from Annandale to Appalachia, began preseason football practice under August's searing sun. Each dreamed of perfection: an undefeated regular season, memorable playoff run and state...
Dec 4, 2009
|Story| Daily Press
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Daily Press
D.J. Parker and Matt Wright danced like children at the 20-yard line. Linebacker Maurice Boone couldn't stop crying.
Nearly four months after beginning its quest to defend its Division 5 title in football, Phoebus High got a chance to celebrate again...
Jan 3, 2010
|Story| Hampton Roads Daily Press
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No. 1: The rehabilitation of Michael Vick
The former Pro Bowl quarterback and one-time highest-paid NFL player resumes his life after a nearly two-year federal prison sentence for his role in a dogfighting operation. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell...
Mar 12, 2010
|Story| WGNO-LTV
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Plaintiffs' lawyers have been positioning themselves for a front seat in the mounting litigation arising from the sudden unintended acceleration problems in vehicles manufactured by Toyota.
Approximately 150 lawyers assembled on Friday at the...
Mar 14, 2010
|Story| Hampton Roads Daily Press
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Prior to returning to the Commonwealth in January, Virginia defensive coordinator Jim Reid remembered a side of Mike London he used to see every day in meeting rooms at the University of Richmond.
When Reid was the head coach at Richmond, and London...
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