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          <title>Lewis ruptures achilles tendon in Tech win</title>
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BLACKSBURG &#8212; Virginia Tech junior running back Kenny Lewis suffered a ruptured left Achilles tendon in the third quarter Saturday, and will miss the rest of the season.

He took a handoff from quarterback Tyrod Taylor, and appeared to come up lame before being tackled. He was helped off the field with 13 minutes left in the third quarter.


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BLACKSBURG &#8212; Doing just enough to win might be impressive on the road against the likes of North Carolina and Nebraska. But at home against Western Kentucky? Not so much.


No. 20 Virginia Tech pulled out an uninspiring 27-13 win against the Hilltoppers on Saturday afternoon at Lane Stadium.&nbsp;
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          <title>Tech Notebook: Evans having a class reunion of sorts at Lane Stadium</title>
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BLACKSBURG &#8212; Virginia Tech redshirt freshman running back Darren Evans will see a familiar face on the Western Kentucky sideline Saturday at Lane Stadium.
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          <title>Hokies in good hands with Boykin</title>
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BLACKSBURG &#8212; A description of Virginia Tech freshman wide receiver Jarrett Boykin must begin with his hands.
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Virginia Tech coach Frank Beamer said Tuesday during his media conference that the Hokies would request a medical hardship waiver for sophomore rover Davon Morgan, who tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee in the second quarter of Saturday&#8217;s 35-30 win over Nebraska.

&#8220;Yeah, we&#8217;re checking into it. &#8230; I know the NCAA is about what&#8217;s best for the kids. I think they would really look into that. &#8230; That&#8217;s what&#8217;s best for this guy, for sure,&#8221; Beamer said.


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          <title>Porch moves into Tech&#8217;s starting lineup on defense</title>
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BLACKSBURG &#8212; Virginia Tech was thin to begin with at rover. Now that starter Davon Morgan is out for the season with a knee injury ... well, the position has become an even bigger question mark for the Hokies&#8217; proud defense.
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          <title>Hokies get the breaks in last three games</title>
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 Tyrod Taylor doesn&#8217;t call it luck. 

Maybe he&#8217;s right, because after all, luck eventually runs out. That hasn&#8217;t happened yet for Virginia Tech&#8217;s football team. 


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          <pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 23:48:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Redshirt freshman right guard Blake DeChristopher returned to Virginia Tech&#8217;s starting lineup Saturday night.

He missed two games and most of a third with a variety of injuries, including a bruised kidney and bruised leg, sustained after taking a jarring hit during the first drive of the Hokies&#8217; season-opening loss to East Carolina.

DeChristopher returned to the field last Saturday against North Carolina, though he didn&#8217;t start. He played 48 snaps against the Tar Heels, and starter Richard Graham played 18.


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          <title>Tech Notebook: Teamwork important for the line</title>
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Virginia Tech&#8217;s defense doesn&#8217;t expect to be bothered much by fan noise Saturday night. Educated fans like Nebraska&#8217;s usually keep quiet when the home team&#8217;s offense is on the field.


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BLACKSBURG &#8212; Virginia Tech senior kicker Dustin Keys has already done twice in four games what Brandon Pace, one of the Hokies&#8217; all-time leading scorers, couldn&#8217;t do in four years.
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          <title>Virgil is the class of Hokies&#8217; D</title>
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BLACKSBURG - Some afternoons during the spring, Stephan Virgil parked his car atop a hill overlooking Virginia Tech&#8217;s practice field. He sat in silence, watching his teammates, wishing he were out there with them, visualizing how he would play a coverage or break on a pass.
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          <pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:37:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Va. Tech wide receiver convicted of DUI</title>
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A Virginia Tech wide-receiver will serve jail time for drunk driving.


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BLACKSBURG &#8212; Virginia Tech coach Frank Beamer said he plans to move practice inside to the Rector Field House Thursday, and he&#8217;ll have noise pumped in to simulate the raucous crowd the Hokies expect to see Saturday at Nebraska.
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          <pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:02:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Hokies &#8216;good test&#8217; for Nebraska</title>
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Three games into the season, Nebraska&#8217;s identity under first-year coach Bo Pelini remains a mystery with the Big 12 opener against Missouri looming. 


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          <title>Tech records second consecutive come&#45;from&#45;behind victory</title>
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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. &#8212; OK, so Virginia Tech&#8217;s last two wins haven&#8217;t had much aesthetic value. Think the Hokies care?

They forged one of the biggest comebacks in the Frank Beamer era Saturday, coming back from a two-touchdown deficit to beat North Carolina, 20-17, at Kenan Stadium.
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          <pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 23:52:00 EDT</pubDate>
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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. &#8212; For a split second, Virginia Tech quarterback Tyrod Taylor feared the worst. 


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          <title>Tech&#8217;s secondary faces biggest test to date</title>
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Is Virginia Tech&#8217;s defensive secondary flawed or fabulous? It hasn&#8217;t had much of an opportunity to answer that question this season. 

The mystery will almost certainly be solved after today&#8217;s big showdown with North Carolina at Kenan Stadium.&nbsp;
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          <title>Lewis still starting over Evans at RB</title>
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Redshirt freshman tailback Darren Evans has shown the ability to be a workhorse for the Hokies. He&#8217;ll continue to get a lot of carries, but Tech plans to proceed with its running back-by-committee approach.


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          <title>Graves first Hokie with block in three straight games</title>
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Virginia Tech sophomore defensive tackle John Graves is great at blocking kicks &#8230; and keeping secrets.
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          <pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:25:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>UNC&#8217;s Tate a nightmare for defenders</title>
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CHAPEL HILL - Blinking isn&#8217;t advisable when North Carolina&#8217;s Brandon Tate has his hands on the football.
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          <pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:44:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Hokies seek to make statement</title>
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Despite all its complexities and mind-numbing permutations, the Bowl Championship Series offers an Athletic Coast Conference team a rather simple and linear path to the Orange Bowl, one of the BCS&#8217; five major games: Win your division, make the ACC championship game, win that, book your plane tickets to Miami.
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          <title>UNC wants to avoid going for Va. Tech&#8217;s &#8216;cheese&#8217;</title>
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CHAPEL HILL - One stretch of futility at North Carolina is over, but another runs deeper and longer.
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          <pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 07:17:00 EDT</pubDate>
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          <title>Tech Notebook: Running back will redshirt</title>
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BLACKSBURG &#8212; Virginia Tech freshman running back Ryan Williams will redshirt this season, Hokies coach Frank Beamer said during his Tuesday media conference.
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BLACKSBURG &#8212; Fifteen minutes of fame would have been enough for Virginia Tech linebacker Cody Grimm. The 5-foot-11, 198-pound former walk on has been in the spotlight for much longer than he expected.
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BLACKSBURG &#8212; Georgia Tech&#8217;s Roddy Jones had a five-yard cushion between him and Virginia Tech free safety Kam Chancellor and an open field in front of him. All Yellow Jackets quarterback Josh Nesbitt had to do was complete the pass.
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          <title>Hokies settled with Taylor as starter</title>
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BLACKSBURG &#8212; Virginia Tech&#8217;s quarterback shuffle is on hold for the foreseeable future. 


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BLACKSBURG &#8212; Virginia Tech&#8217;s run blocking was much improved last Saturday, as evidenced by its best rushing total in more than a year. As for its pass protection, well, that&#8217;s something the big guys up front are still working on.

The Hokies, who rushed for 261 yards, also allowed four sacks against Furman. They&#8217;ve already yielded six sacks in two games this season. Only five Football Bowl Subdivision teams, out of 119, have allowed more.
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          <title>Hokies notes: Preparing for Georgia Tech</title>
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Virginia Tech defensive end Jason Worilds and linebacker Cam Martin are both listed as probable for Saturday&#8217;s game against Georgia Tech.

Worilds suffered a sprained left shoulder in the first quarter of Saturday&#8217;s home opener against Furman and did not return. Martin went down later in the game with a sprained left groin.
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          <title>Hokies take disciplined approach to Georgia Tech offense</title>
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BLACKSBURG &#8212; How difficult is Georgia Tech&#8217;s offense to defend? Well, about as difficult as it is to appropriately name it.

Some call it the triple-option. It&#8217;s been referred to as the multi-bone option or flex-bone option. One newspaper that covers the Yellow Jackets has designated it the option-based spread.

Georgia Tech coach Paul Johnson, who designed the offense in the &#8217;80s while serving as offensive coordinator at Division I-AA power Georgia Southern, simply calls it the spread
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          <title>Beamer responds to critics</title>
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BLACKSBURG &#8212; Virginia Tech coach Frank Beamer has heard enough of the criticism.&nbsp;
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BLACKSBURG &#8212; Virginia Tech&#8217;s defense has only one quarterback sack this season, but Hokies coach Frank Beamer says that number is deceiving.

&#8220;I think we&#8217;ve got to continue to work on the pass rush, don&#8217;t get me wrong, but I think the teams we played had something to do with us not getting sacks too,&#8221; Beamer said.
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Player of the game and other information from Tech&#8217;s game against Furman.
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          <pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 11:20:00 EDT</pubDate>
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BLACKSBURG &#8211; Fifth-year senior quarterback Sean Glennon didn&#8217;t feel he was being phased out of Virginia Tech&#8217;s offense until the second half of Saturday&#8217;s 24-7 win over Furman.


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Fifth-year senior quarterback Sean Glennon didn&#8217;t feel he was being phased out of Virginia Tech&#8217;s offense until the second half of Saturday&#8217;s 24-7 win over Furman.
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After losing to East Carolina last week, Virginia Tech&#8217;s confidence, slowly but surely, started coming back Saturday at Lane Stadium. The Hokies struggled early against Furman, a decided underdog, but eventually turned it on in the second half for a 24-7 victory.
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BLACKSBURG &#8212; Virginia Tech cornerback Macho Harris (sprained left foot) is listed as probable for Saturday&#8217;s home opener against Furman.

Harris, a senior, missed last week&#8217;s game against East Carolina. He didn&#8217;t travel to Charlotte with the team, opting instead to stay behind in Blacksburg for treatment. He watched the game from his home.


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BLACKSBURG &#8212; Kenny Lewis Jr. has always tried to gain his father&#8217;s approval, but there was a time when following in his footsteps seemed like disobedience.


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Frank Beamer has forgotten more football than most of us ever will know, and that should be taken into consideration when evaluating his most recent decision regarding the quarter backs at Virginia Tech.
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BLACKSBURG &#8211; Virginia Tech&#8217;s one-quarterback plan lasted all of one game.


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Even though its offense was sputtering Saturday, Virginia Tech didn&#8217;t entertain thoughts of playing sophomore quarterback Tyrod Taylor.

&#8220;No, we didn&#8217;t consider that,&#8221; Tech coach Frank Beamer said during a Monday teleconference with reporters.
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The cold truth is that Saturday&#8217;s loss revealed Tech&#8217;s true identity. It is, at least one game into the season, an inexperienced team that plays like it, a group for which long-term injuries to starters could prove disastrous until reliable depth materializes.&nbsp;
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Player, play and quote of the game
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Tech&#8217;s inexperienced defense has trouble wrapping up ECU&#8217;s players.
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          <pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2008 08:25:00 EDT</pubDate>
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East Carolina beats Virginia Tech on blocked punt return in closing minutes.
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Poor tackling by the Hokies helped sustain both of East Carolina&#8217;s second-half offensive drives in the Pirates&#8217; 27-22 upset win over No. 17 Tech Saturday at Bank of America Stadium.


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BLACKSBURG &#8212; Virginia Tech redshirt freshman right tackle Blake DeChristopher has extra motivation to play well Saturday. His older brother, Lane DeChristopher, is expected to be in the Bank of America Stadium crowd when the Hokies take on East Carolina.
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          <pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:08:00 EDT</pubDate>
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BLACKSBURG &#8212; Virginia Tech defensive backfield coach Torrian Gray used to think cornerback Stephan Virgil was bound for a career as a backup. Not anymore, thanks to an epiphany of sorts by the junior the last six months.
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BLACKSBURG &#8212; Two address books &#8212; one at his office, one at his home &#8212; contain many of the telephone numbers Jim Cavanaugh has accumulated in 38 years as a football coach. Some of those numbers also reside, through technology far too complicated to fathom, in the BlackBerry that he now carries almost everywhere with him.
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BLACKSBURG &#8212; Virginia Tech quarterbacks coach Mike O&#8217;Cain looked into Sean Glennon&#8217;s eyes Saturday afternoon and said, &#8220;We&#8217;re going to redshirt Tyrod (Taylor). You&#8217;re the guy. Go do it.&#8221;


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          <pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:02:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Virginia Tech Coach Frank Beamer says he hopes to redshirt sophomore quarterback Tyrod Taylor this season, barring injury to Sean Glennon.&nbsp;
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          <pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:51:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Virginia Tech coach Frank Beamer is expected to make his quarterback plans known today during his weekly press conference.

An announcement was expected Monday, but Beamer declined to answer any question about the team&#8217;s quarterback competition.
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BLACKSBURG &#8212; Virginia Tech lost a lot this offseason.
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          <pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:50:00 EDT</pubDate>
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Virginia Tech&#8217;s most uncertain position suffered another setback Monday when projected starting wide receiver Zach Luckett was suspended indefinitely by coach Frank Beamer for violating team policy.
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BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) &#8212; Virginia Tech has suspended receiver Zach Luckett indefinitely for a violation of team policy.&nbsp;
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BLACKSBURG &#8212; Kenny Lewis Jr. isn&#8217;t going to let an injury decide his fate this preseason, not with a heated battle expected among at least five players for Virginia Tech&#8217;s starting running back position.
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BLACKSBURG &#8212; The mood among Virginia Tech&#8217;s football players, coaches and the media members who cover them was pretty mellow Monday evening following the Hokies&#8217; first preseason practice.
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BLACKSBURG - One by one, they returned. Sean Glennon, Kam Chancellor, Tyrod Taylor. Virginia Tech&#8217;s players reported to the equipment room yesterday and picked up their gear for this season, right down to a fresh pair of white tube socks and turf shoes with their numbers written neatly in green marker on the heels.
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GREENSBORO, Ga. &#8212; The preseason ACC rankings surprised Virginia Tech coach Frank Beamer. He didn&#8217;t think he&#8217;d see the Hokies atop the Coastal Division.

Tech received 58 first-place votes, well ahead of second place North Carolina, which garnered four.

&#8220;Well, I&#8217;m surprised to be honest with you, that we were picked like that, because we&#8217;ve got some work to do. We&#8217;ve got some coaching to do,&#8221; Beamer said. 

The Hokies are coming off an ACC championship season, but they must replace 11 starters and a kicker from that team.


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GREENSBORO, Ga. &#8212; Quarterback Sean Glennon is preparing for his fifth season in a Virginia Tech football uniform. He started at least nine games in each of the last two seasons, during which he proved capable of successfully running the Hokies&#8217; offense.
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Virginia Tech defensive backs Victor &#8220;Macho&#8221; Harris and Kam Chancellor were among the 40 players selected to the 2008 Jim Thorpe Award (nation&#8217;s best defensive back) watch list.


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The beginning of fall practice is still a month away, but Virginia Tech&#8217;s football team has already suffered a devastating injury loss.


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Devin Radford, a fleet-footed transfer from Virginia Tech, hopes to make his mark at running back for Appalachian State.
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          <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 06:55:00 EDT</pubDate>
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For more than nine months, defensive tackle David Wang stood as Virginia Tech&#8217;s only football commitment for 2009.
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OKLAHOMA CITY &#8212; During the Virginia Tech softball team&#8217;s trip to Arizona earlier this season, pitcher Angela Tincher and shortstop Misty Hall spotted a grasshopper and started chasing it. Routine playfulness. But what happened next could happen only to Hall: She stumbled into a cactus, jamming an inch-long piece of its spine into her leg. Blood pouring out of the wound, Hall started laughing.&nbsp;
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It&#8217;s not exactly a lot of time to rest on your laurels.
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BLACKSBURG &#8212; Former Virginia Tech running back Branden Ore might play his final college season this fall at West Liberty State, a Division II school in West Liberty, W.Va.
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Barry Booker, a graduate of Amherst County High School, signed a rookie free agent contract with the NFL&#8217;s Tennessee Titans on Monday.


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Contrary to what you may have seen or heard in the last three months, this weekend&#8217;s NFL Draft impacts more than the dozen or so players slotted to go early in the first round.
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BLACKSBURG &#8212; Judging from his performance in Saturday&#8217;s Maroon-White scrimmage, it&#8217;ll be hard to keep Virginia Tech quarterback Sean Glennon out of the starting lineup in the fall. Even if his main challenger at the position is the ultra-talented Tyrod Taylor.


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Ready or not, redshirt freshmen Darren Evans and Josh Oglesby just became Virginia Tech&#8217;s top two tailbacks.
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BLACKSBURG &#8212; Sean Glennon and Tyrod Taylor are neck-in-neck in the battle for Virginia Tech&#8217;s starting quarterback spot.

Each had their moments during Wednesday&#8217;s spring practice, mini-scrimmage at Lane Stadium. Glennon, who started every game two years ago as a sophomore and shared starting duties with Taylor last season, completed seven of 12 passes for 52 yards.
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BLACKSBURG &#8212; Linebackers Brett Warren and Purnell Sturdivant made brief appearances last season for Virginia Tech&#8217;s football team, and the reviews were mostly good.
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A current Virginia Tech golfer and a former Hokies standout are scheduled to make their Masters debuts today at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Ga.

Drew Weaver, a junior at Tech, and Johnson Wagner, a 2001 Tech grad, will join the likes of Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson in the year&#8217;s first major golf championship.
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BLACKSBURG &#8212; The game was over. So was Virginia Tech&#8217;s season. Hank Thorns and Deron Washington were in lockstep heading toward the Cassell Coliseum tunnel when Thorns, a 5-foot-9 freshman guard, reached up and cradled the back of the 6-7 Washington&#8217;s head.
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BLACKSBURG &#8212; When Virginia Tech senior forward Deron Washington walked onto the court for warm-ups before Wednesday night&#8217;s National Invitation Tournament semifinal against Mississippi, he couldn&#8217;t help but notice Rebels frontcourt players Dwayne Curtis and Kenny Williams.


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It might be easier to list the football players returning to Virginia Tech this season than go through the names of those the Hokies must replace.
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BLACKSBURG &#8212; So much has fueled Virginia Tech&#8217;s recent run in the National Invitation Tournament, from its hometown fans to its defensive intensity. There&#8217;s also the desire to, as forward A.D. Vassallo put it, &#8220;miss a few days of class&#8221; if it makes it to the semifinals and championship game next week in New York.

But what&#8217;s really driving the Hokies these days is their suddenly explosive offense.
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BLACKSBURG &#8212; March Madness has taken on new meaning at Virginia Tech. The Hokies men&#8217;s basketball team is filling up Cassell Coliseum for the National Invitation Tournament and dispatching opponents in record-breaking style.
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BLACKSBURG &#8212; Virginia Tech counted down Deron Washington&#8217;s top 10 highlights on its two large scoreboard television screens before the senior forward&#8217;s final regular-season home game March 4. With each passing play, the Cassell Coliseum crowd grew louder.
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BLACKSBURG &#8212; It&#8217;s not the NCAAs, but the National Invitation Tournament is a big deal to Virginia Tech&#8217;s men&#8217;s basketball team and its fans. That was clear Wednesday night in the Hokies&#8217; 94-62 first-round win over Morgan State in front of a near-capacity crowd of 9,628 at Cassell Coliseum.
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A news release from Virginia Tech says discussions were held with Ore, and it was decided that Ore should pursue other opportunities.
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BLACKSBURG &#8212; How memorable can an 11-0 loss be? Well, if you ask the Virginia Tech baseball players, pretty darn memorable.

From the simplest of gestures, like a brief conversation Tech senior Sean O&#8217;Brien had at first base with All-Star center fielder Johnny Damon in the top of the first, to senior starting pitcher Andrew Wells&#8217; showdown with baseball&#8217;s most feared hitter, the Hokies came away with plenty of stories to tell from Tuesday&#8217;s benefit game against the New York Yankees.&nbsp;
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BLACKSBURG &#8212; The New York Yankees organization acted quickly and without reservation in the aftermath of last April&#8217;s Virginia Tech campus shootings. When team owner George Steinbrenner first heard the news of the senseless act, he immediately got team president Randy Levine on the phone and put the wheels in motion for what would eventually turn out to be one of the greatest days the school has ever seen.
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The New York Yankees have given Virginia Tech sophomore Anthony Sosnoskie some sleepless nights over the years. He has laid awake agonizing over heartbreaking losses. There were other times, after glorious wins, when he was too excited to doze off.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. &#8212; Virginia Tech&#8217;s men&#8217;s basketball team had North Carolina on the ropes Saturday in a game it desperately needed to win to get into the NCAA tournament. 

Hokies coach Seth Greenberg thinks it would be a shame for the selection committee to disregard his team&#8217;s performance just because it lost 68-66 on a last-second shot by Tar Heels forward Tyler Hansbrough.


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CHARLOTTE, N.C. &#8212; A.D. Vassallo got up from his chair, and before walking away from the postgame press conference Saturday at Bobcats Arena, gently patted Seth Greenberg on the back. 

Just moments before, Greenberg wept when he spoke of his young team&#8217;s immense growth in the last couple of months. Vassallo&#8217;s gesture wasn&#8217;t so much to console him. He was just letting his coach know the Hokies are going to be all right.
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. &#8212; Virginia Tech&#8217;s men&#8217;s basketball team is still playing. There&#8217;s no better way to convince the NCAA tournament selection committee it&#8217;s worthy of an at-large bid.
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An N.C. State win over Miami Thursday would have been little help to Virginia Tech. The Hokies are in need of quality wins, and they&#8217;re not going to get those playing teams in the middle of a massive tailspin.
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Virginia Tech forward A.D. Vassallo could have stomached a game-winning 3-pointer or even a costly turnover. The Hokies could have lost Sunday&#8217;s men&#8217;s basketball game at Clemson&#8217;s Littlejohn Coliseum practically any other way and it would have been easier to take. Instead, it came down to a questionable foul call.
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The three-letter word was repeated over and over again Tuesday night after the Virginia Tech men's basketball team extended its winning streak to four games with a 22-point victory over Wake Forest.  Fun.           ]]></description>
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BLACKSBURG - Deron Washington goes online every now and then and sneaks a peak at the NCAA Tournament predictions. He&#8217;s noticed that some of the so-called experts have Virginia Tech in the tournament. He&#8217;s noticed that some don&#8217;t.
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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. - T-shirts were placed at every seat before Saturday&#8217;s men&#8217;s basketball game at the Dean Smith Center. Fifth-ranked North Carolina urged its fans to &#8220;Turn it Blue.&#8221; Who knew that&#8217;s what the Tar Heels were about to do to the collective psyche of the Virginia Tech Hokies?
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