CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) - Billy Wagner is in his 13th season as the head coach of the Miller school baseball team. He started coaching there soon after retiring from the major leagues in 2010. “I truly wanted to give back…
Dawn Staley, the head coach of the South Carolina Gamecocks women's basketball team, made a special appearance at Columbia University's softball team on Wednesday evening. The Columbia Softball team posted on X, "An Evening with the GOAT! Giving us the Championship word! Thanks…
WINCHESTER — Just over three years since he retired from the Washington Nationals, Ryan Zimmerman is still trying to figure out exactly what he wants to do with the rest of his life. And for the former major leaguer who’s raising…
Another episode of Bringing the Heat with Bryan Nolen rolls in as the calendar turns to May. In this week’s episode, Fronstretch’s Luken Glover sits down with one of the famous names in racing, Wood — specifically Leonard Wood, whose Wood Brothers Racing…
J.C. Snead at the 1983 Players Championship. Snead died Friday at home. (Fred Vance/PGA Tour archives HOT SPRINGS — Throughout his lifetime, Paul Siple called the star he coached at Valley High School in the 1950s the greatest all-around athlete…
J.C. Snead joined the PGA TOUR in 1968 at a time when the TOUR already featured another Snead, a player of some renown, someone who happened to be J.C.’s uncle. Throughout his life, Sam Snead, the winner of 82 PGA…
NASCAR on Monday announced the 15 nominees for the NASCAR Hall of Fame’s Class of 2026 — including Halifax County native Jeff Burton — and the five nominees for the Landmark Award for Outstanding Contributions to NASCAR. Burton, who won…
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. – Virginia senior Gretchen Walsh (Nashville, Tenn.) has been named the 2025 Honda Sport Award winner for Swimming & Diving, as announced today by Chris Voelz, Executive Director of THE Collegiate Women Sports Awards (CWSA). This is her second…
Al Pearce, who reported on NASCAR racing for more than a half-century, died Wednesday. He was 82. Pearce, a native of Rocky Mount, won every major auto-racing journalism award, including the American Motorsports Media Award of Excellence, and is a…
Al Pearce, whose reporting on auto racing covered more than a half-century, died Wednesday. Pearce was a correspondent for Autoweek for decades, reporting from Daytona Beach, Indianapolis, Darlington, and every other stop on the NASCAR circuit. His travels took him to all…