Virginia Tech football roster has holes on picture day
BLACKSBURG — Virginia Tech had its team picture Saturday at Lane Stadium. It featured fewer players than expected. Three scholarship players who appeared on the team’s initial roster this training camp are no longer part of the football team, while another is mulling his future, according to associate athletic director for football operations John Ballein. Offensive lineman Adam Taraschke, defensive lineman Jarontay Jones and cornerback Davion Tookes have all left the program.
CB Manning opts to transfer from Virginia Tech
BLACKSBURG - After mulling things over for a day, Virginia Tech cornerback Donaldven Manning has decided to transfer. The Hokies confirmed the news through the Twitter account for Frank Beamer's personal website Sunday, adding that Beamer will help the sophomore find another school. No reason was given for Manning's decision, but the former four-star recruit had been passed on the depth chart in training camp by true freshmen Kendall Fuller
McFarling: 2 little numbers are a big hurdle for Virginia Tech football
BLACKSBURG — Disappointing. Unacceptable. Surprising. Inconsistent. Motivating. The exact response varies from player to player and from coach to coach, but it takes only two numbers to elicit a cringe around these parts: seven and six. Virginia Tech’s record last year. Saturday was football media day at Tech, and 7-6 was not the primary focus. The primary focus was on unanswered questions on the depth chart, newcomers who could make
Saunders, Wagner among 6 selected to Virginia Tech Hall of Fame
BLACKSBURG - Major league pitcher Joe Saunders and pro golfer Johnson Wagner are among six former Hokies athletes who have been selected for the Virginia Tech Sports Hall of Fame. The rest of this year's class includes Roanoke County resident and former basketball player Bobby Beecher, ex-NFL player John Engelberger, ex-softball player Clarisa Crowell and former tennis player Jimmy Milley. They will be inducted on Nov. 15 and will be
Young Virginia Tech players will get chance to impress in Saturday's scrimmage
Virginia Tech's open football scrimmage Saturday night will be reserved for younger players hoping to make an impression. The Hokies will have a regular practice at Lane Stadium starting at 7 p.m. that is open to the public. They'll scrimmage near the end and run about 30 plays, although first-teamers will step aside for youngsters trying to play this year. Frank Beamer's website tweeted Friday that six true freshmen are
Virginia Tech needs 4th Fuller to step up right away
BLACKSBURG — His goatee belies his age, although Hokies freshman cornerback Kendall Fuller says that wasn’t his intent. He simply wasn’t allowed to grow one at his high school at Our Lady of Good Counsel in Olney, Md., started doing so after graduation and likes how it looks. It’s fitting, though, since Virginia Tech plans to ask the youngest of the football-playing brothers from Baltimore to have a role far
Colleges: Hokies set to face Michigan State
The Virginia Tech men's basketball team will face heavyweight Michigan State in the Brooklyn portion of the Coaches vs. Cancer Classic. The pairings for the Barclays Center event were revealed Thursday; the four participants had previously been announced. Tech will face coach Tom Izzo's Spartans at about 9:30 p.m. in the second game of a doubleheader on Nov. 22. Tech will meet Oklahoma or Seton Hall the following night. The
College football: Virginia Tech-Wisconsin series pushed back
BLACKSBURG - Virginia Tech's football series with Wisconsin has been pushed back again, although the Hokies are in the process of lining up a "major conference opponent" as a replacement. The Hokies and Badgers won't play their long-anticipated football series now until 2019 and 2020, according to Virginia Tech athletic director Jim Weaver. The teams will play at Wisconsin, Sept. 14, 2019, and in Blacksburg on Sept. 12, 2020. Weaver
Virginia Tech ready to revitalize ground game
BLACKSBURG — Trey Edmunds hears the talk. It’s impossible not to. The running back knows what people have said or written about Virginia Tech’s ground game, which slogged through the 2012 season, struggling close to as much as it has during the Hokies’ 20-year bowl streak. All he does is internalize it. “Us individuals who are in the running back room, we all stick together and we all just work
Hokies suspend running back for Virginia Tech season opener (with video)
BLACKSBURG — Virginia Tech’s Joel Caleb is excited about his recent move from wide receiver to running back, eager to have the ball in his hands a lot more. That won’t be until after the season opener, however. As expected, Caleb has been suspended for the Alabama game because of an unspecified violation of team rules. The redshirt freshman read a prepared statement before interviews Tuesday. %%Video-beamerExum%% “I broke a
VIDEO: Virginia Tech's Exum talks about his knee injury
Antone Exum says he hopes he'll be playing in two months, but he's not putting a timetable on his return.
VIDEO: Hokies' Manning discusses his preparation to compete for a starting role
Donaldven Manning says he's working to get his speed back now that he's added a few pounds to his frame.
College notebook: Jamelle Hagins to French league
Former William Fleming and Delaware standout Jamelle Hagins will be playing pro basketball overseas. Hagins, last season’s Colonial Athletic Association defensive player of the year, has signed with Chorale de Roanne of the France Pro A League. Hagins, who was bypassed in this year’s NBA draft, played in both NBA summer leagues last month but did not make much of an impact. The power forward played in four games for
Cavaliers count down to BYU -- and Virginia Tech
CHARLOTTESVILLE — Forget one game at a time. When you haven’t beaten your rival in nearly a decade, cliches go out the window. That’s why in the Virginia football locker room, the Cavaliers have two countdown clocks. One ticks down the days, hours, minutes and seconds until UVa’s season opener against Brigham Young. The other? It displays the time remaining until the regular-season finale against rival Virginia Tech, which has
Virginia Tech cornerback Exum has ‘work to do' (with video)
BLACKSBURG — Virginia Tech cornerback Antone Exum’s hopes of being back for the Alabama opener are over. Exum, who tore his ACL, lateral and medial meniscus and broke a bone in his right knee playing pickup basketball in January, went to Pensacola, Fla., on Monday to have his six-month checkup with orthopedic surgeon Dr. James Andrews. The news wasn’t what Virginia Tech fans were hoping to hear. “Upon exam, he
5 questions for Virginia Tech football
BLACKSBURG - Forget about Alabama. OK, not like that. Virginia Tech's season opener is less than a month away, but the Hokies' coaches don't want their players getting so swept up in playing the No. 1 team in the country that they forget what's important. "We're going to focus on the everydays. Not Alabama," offensive coordinator Scot Loeffler said. "Every day we've got to find a way to be a
Former Virginia Tech pitcher takes ‘wicked' curve pro to Pulaski Mariners
PULASKI — Eddie Campbell’s New England bona fides are unassailable. The clincher is the vocabulary test. Campbell blew away the pop quiz the other day at his place of employment, the Pulaski Mariners clubhouse. The pitcher was asked to define the following list: Frappe? “Milkshake,” he said without hesitation. Grinder? He nailed that one, submarine sandwich. Dungarees? “Blue jeans, but I don’t use that one.” Then he threw in one
Virginia Tech kicker Abbott to transfer, FB steps down
BLACKSBURG - Virginia Tech announced after reporting for practice Sunday that place-kicker Brooks Abbott has decided to transfer and fullback Riley Beiro will end his career for medical reasons. Abbott came to Tech as a U.S. Army All-American last year out of Jacksonville, Fla., agreeing to join the Hokies as a preferred walk-on. He burned his redshirt early last season, taking over kickoff duties in the fourth week against Bowling
Mansassas QB picked Virginia Tech
Greg Stroman, an athlete from Stonewall Jackson High in Manassas, announced Saturday that he plans to sign with the Hokies next February. Stroman picked the Hokies over Virginia and Duke. The 5-foot-11, 160-pounder is a quarterback for Stonewall Jackson but projects as a cornerback in college. Virginia Tech defensive backs coach Torrian Gray was his primary recruiter. Stroman threw for 1,667 yards and 20 touchdowns last year with seven interceptions.
ACC to weigh whether channel is next logical step for conference
ACC commissioner John Swofford has a vision of what a TV channel devoted to the league would look like. It would have a reasonable number of football and men's basketball games, the lifeblood of any endeavor like this. Live and replay programming. Historical shows. Coaches shows. Awards shows. And, best of all, it would be constant. "I think the beauty of it is it would be ACC all day, 24/7,"
Denver Nuggets send Erick Green to Italy
Erick Green is heading overseas. The former Virginia Tech point guard said Tuesday he has agreed to sign a one-year contract with a basketball team in Siena, Italy. The Utah Jazz chose Green in the second round of last month’s NBA draft on behalf of the Denver Nuggets, who then acquired the point guard’s rights in a trade with Utah that same night. Green said it was the Nuggets’ decision
1. 41-vehicle wreck ties up traffic Sunday on I-81 in Rockbridge County
2. Virginia Tech football roster has holes on picture day
3. Medicare penalties hit hospitals in Roanoke, New River Valleys
4. Microfestivus beer event gets downtown Roanoke hopping
5. McFarling: 2 little numbers are a big hurdle for Virginia Tech football
6. DAN CASEY: Copter cost still stirring up dust
7. Roanoke farmers markets making local foods more accessible
8. Arrest made in case of missing Nelson County teen
9. Virginia attorney general's office grows under Ken Cuccinelli
10. Man's drowning is 5th in Lynchburg area
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