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0FFICIATING HURTING (ALL SPORTS) AS HOKIES LEARNED, THE HARD WAY

  Trying to catch up … knowing we never will … Officiating (all sports) is at an all-time low … perhaps  reflecting widespread difficulty finding willing  participants on local level. Or is it simply a sign of the  times. Draw your own conclusions. *****  Boy, did Virginia Tech get the short end of what  ESPN’s  LOUIS RIDDICK   described as “a really bad  call” in  Saturday’s 34-17 loss to Miami, Fla.  Down by 17 points but showing some offensive spark in  the second half (after scoring three points total in the  first), the Hokies completed 17-yard pass-run play that  carried inside the Miami 40 ... nullified by an inadvertent  whistle. Get this: QB  KYRON DRONES , ignoring blitzing  BR Y CE  FITZGERALD,  who had him low, around the ankles,  launched a perfect toss to  AYDEN GREENE  … but,  with ball in the air, suddenly you heard the whistle.  ESPN’s crack crew didn’...
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BUNCH OF STUFF ... LIKE: DID DOBSON HIT McAVOY WITH SHOT DELIBERATELY?

Headline seen on-line: Will Penn State live to regret  firing James Franklin? Better to ask: How Long Before Franklin Wears Out His Welcome at Virginia Tech? *****  YOU COULD almost feel sorry for  BILL  BELICHICK … except it is Belichick after all … so  what doesn’t seem fair gets a pass, nevertheless, when the  media goes out of their way to trash the six-time Super  Bowl winner for attending his 24 year old girl friend’s  cheerleading contest after his North Carolina football  team loses another game. Given a choice, it says here, every one of his critics  would do the same thing. Besides, his assistant coaches  had to be pleased, too, that is if rumors of Belichick’s  reaction to losses while coaching in the NFL are only half  true. We know one former aide who told horror stories of  Belichick unable to sleep which meant his staff had to  stay up all kinds of crazy hours and work, too. *****  WAS IT only...
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FRIVOLOUS, THY NAME IS SUIT REGARDING ROSESHIRE

  If ever there was a frivolous lawsuit, it would be Henrico  County’s attempted takedown of Roseshire, the new  gambling site at Staples Mill and Glenside. Granted, Churchill Downs, the object of the county’s  wrath as owner, has been nothing but arrogant by its  willful disregard of any and all correspondence from  Henrico. Lawyers orders, I’m sure. Then again, the home of the Kentucky Derby was under  no obligation either. Frankly, it (cliche alert) caught the  county with its pants down by beating a deadline (barely)  that would have permitted county residents to vote in a  referendum … that quite likely would have passed  anyway, We were told by someone who should know that the last  13 referendums held in Henrico “passed easily,” and there  really was no reason to think this one wouldn’t sail  through either. So more than 200 angry citizens turned out to vent on the subject. So what! They were a distinct minorit...
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