So how has Chris Tierney, a player coming out of the University of Virginia who wasn’t deemed good enough to be selected in the draft proper of Major League Soccer, turned himself into a regular starter in the top soccer league in the United States? He did it by never getting ahead of himself, and instead focusing on the here and now.
Phil Gosselin was hot in April and May, like many of his Gwinnett teammates. The G-Braves cooled off drastically as a team by June, though. Gosselin never has. Gosselin leads the International League in hits (139), doubles (28) and total bases (182) while ranking second with a .351 batting average.
Shortstop Chris Taylor, a Cox High graduate who played at the University of Virginia, made his major league debut Thursday night in Seattle.
The whole point of holding Washington Redskins training camp in Richmond is to get players away from home and out of their comfort zones. So in a sense, Morgan Moses has it easy. Out of the 90 players attending camp, Moses is the only one who gets to practice at home. The rookie offensive lineman is Chesterfield native who graduated from Meadowbrook High School in 2009. At Meadowbrook, he was an All-Metro player. He went to college at the University of Virginia and was taken by the Redskins in the third round of the 2014 NFL Draft.
New Zealander Greg Foran has been appointed the new United States boss of Walmart, the world's largest retailer. Foran has a diploma in management from the New Zealand Institute of Management, along with advanced programmes at both Harvard University and the University of Virginia, according to his company biography.
The Southwest Virginia Medical Clinics board of directors has provided a final yet lasting shot in the arm for the benefit of health care oriented students at The University of Virginia's College at Wise. The SVMC board on Thursday announced its decision last week to give back to the region that supported them for more than four decades by providing UVa-Wise $700,000 for medical related scholarships.
National political analysts Larry Sabato of the University of Virginia and Stu Rothenberg of the Rothenburg Political Report say the race leans in Mooney’s favor.
(Commentary) Now today, Larry J. Sabato of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics called Minnesota's U.S. Senate race, "The sleeper" (sound familiar?), adding: “One final rating shift that will leave many shaking their heads is in Minnesota, where we’re changing the rating from Likely Democratic to just Leans Democratic. But hear us out: While polling doesn’t really support such a move, history suggests this race won’t be a cakewalk for Sen. Al Franken (D).”
A new “Crystal Ball” analysis by University of Virginia political scientist Larry J. Sabato cautions that even while Republicans potentially could pick up between four and eight Senate seats this fall, the air is going out of the Republican balloon – making it highly unlikely we’ll see another “wave” or landslide election as in 2010, when Republicans regained control of the House.
Larry Sabato, a University of Virginia political science professor, said he's not surprised that Warner is gearing up now. "Remember, incumbents only lose in three circumstances," Sabato said. "When they take a race for granted and don't campaign hard. Second, when there's a scandal. There isn't one that we know of. And third when there is a wave. Now, there could always be a wave. We don't see it yet."
Getting nominees through the Senate may get harder after the November elections. The Democratic Party is likely to lose seats or even control of the chamber, according to Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball, an election analysis website run by the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics.
"Rand Paul is the Energizer Bunny of the Senate Republicans," said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics.
Venturing into New York makes sense for other Republicans to woo Manhattan donors and "capitalize where they think Christie has goofed," said Larry Sabato, a professor of politics at the University of Virginia.
(Audio) Megan Juelfs-Swanson is on to go over her research into how many of us are really "underemployed."
Could Virginia’s taxpayer-backed employee pension fund have been too clever, depressing its returns during an historic bull market? It’s a question pressed by Ed Burton, a former overseer and chairman whose 17 years at the Virginia Retirement System were characterized by Neill-like contrarianism. Burton, who left the VRS board of trustees earlier this year, estimates the nation’s 22nd largest retirement program left more than $6 billion on the table.
From visiting a remote central Haiti village with United Nations head Ban Ki-moon to stumping at a Haitian diaspora town hall in North Miami, Lamothe last week was everywhere a candidate needs to be — although the start of the 2015 Haitian presidential race is more than a year away. “That is how prime ministers run,” said Robert Fatton, a University of Virginia politics professor and Haiti expert. “That is not a Haitian thing. This is politics.”
Heritage Theatre Festival’s production of “One Man, Two Guvnors,” which continues tonight through Aug. 2 in the University of Virginia’s Culbreth Theatre, is “non-stop silliness,” said Robert Chapel, Heritage’s producing artistic director.
(Commentary) University of Virginia, Charlottesville's Dr. Kenan Yount and others' investigation of academic cardiothoracic surgical centers finds that "running simultaneous operating rooms can be efficient and does not appear to negatively affect patient outcomes." In their 2014 report, resident involvement was disclosed. Nonetheless, are good outcomes the litmus test of moral justifiability?
Many people apparently hate that idea. Just before I left Baltimore I happened to read about a new study by psychologists at the University of Virginia and Harvard, which found that people were so adverse to being alone in a room for a little while (six to fifteen minutes) with nothing to do but think or daydream that some would rather give themselves painful electrical shocks than do nothing for that time.