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PRY TUMBLES 15 PLACES ... NOW ONLY TWO AHEAD OF ELLIOTT

  Briefly told … just college football and hockey ... Hot seat … is getting hotter for Virginia Tech’s   BRENT PRY . In CBS’ 10 th  annual ranking of  Power 4 football coaches, Pry landed 63d among 68  in all. Virginia’s  TONY ELLIOTT  is 65 th  …  “Things appear headed in the wrong direction in  Blacksburg,” began the brief commentary …  explaining why Pry, about to begin his fourth season,  fell 15 spots from a year ago …. when the Hokies  finished with “an uninspiring 6-7 mark, and there’s a  bit of heat on Pry’s seat heading into 2025.” Just a  bit? … The network uses a panel of media types  (exactly how many it doesn’t say), with only two  rules: You can only rank coaches from the four  power conferences – ACC, Big 10, Big 12 and SEC  – and you must rank every one of them. “Everything  else is up to the voter.” … In other words, just about  anything goes. If a panelist doesn’t g...
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LOTS OF STUFF ... STARTING WITH 'IT'S ABOUT TIME'

  Let’s hear for the late  RAY HENDRICK , Richmond  stock car racing icon who on Tuesday was named to  NASCAR’s Hall of Fame Class of 2026. What took them  so long? … Joining Hendrick were drivers  KURT  BUSCH  and  HARRY GANT  as well as promoter   HUMPY WHEELER . They will be inducted January 23  at the hall’s headquarters in Charlotte, N.C … “Mr.  Modified,” Hendrick won more than 700 races and  dominated Friday nights at Southside Speedway in the  60s, driving the familiar Flying No. 11 for    JACK TANT . (We will have more on Hendrick. Look for it soon.)  Now it’s  Journalism , winner of the May 17 Preakness  Stakes, that is playing hard to get. Trainer  MICHAEL  McCARTHY  said Tuesday that, while the 3 year old son  of the great  Curlin  was still under consideration for the  Belmont Stakes June 7, there was no guarantee he would  compete in t...
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LIBERTY SOFTBALL DOES 'UNTHINKABLE,' BEATS TEXAS A&M TO WIN FIRST REGIONAL

  On a day in which our attention to sports figured to center on Toronto, where the Maple Leafs had taken defending Stanley Cup-champion Florida to Game 7 … and there was plenty of other stuff … even a look-back at Journalism’s one-for-the-ages stretch run to win the Preakness … to keep us more than routinely occupied … who would have believed a couple of softball games (that barely drew a blip on the national media’s radar) could have been so compelling that we were hooked? LIBERTY UNIVERSITY’S FLAMES , from  Lynchburg, Va., were wasting Texas A&M early on in  yesterday’s NCAA softball regional, 6-1 … and all the  talk from ESPN was about the heavily-favored Aggies. It  was like they didn’t know (or care) about Liberty … So,  naturally, neither  KEVIN FITZGERALD  nor  NICOLE  MENDES  bothered to question what could have been  not-too-subtle gamesmanship by A&M (a cynic might  say), which delayed the bottom of the ...
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