Virginia Golf 2009-03-26

Clinics 3:30-6 p. m. , performances 6:30-9 p. m. , Midlothian High School, 401 Charter Colony Parkway. This eighth-annual event will feature Yamaha clinicians Gifford Howarth and Kris Keeton, the Virginia Commonwealth University Percussion Ensemble, the Ian Browning Percussion Trio as well as percussion groups from James River High School, Godwin High School, Midlothian High School, Pocahontas Middle School and Powhatan Middle School. Concessions, raffles, auctions, "Fastest Hands" competition and more. usd. 4. ctmusic@netscape. com.

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Hes seen the sport evolve from a variety of angles during the last five decades: first as a decorated amateur, next as a successful agent for several top professional golfers and now dabbling in a little bit of both.

We started with a shoestring," Giles said. "We raised usd. 50,000, and within six months, we were broke. We were finding anything we could do that paid football, basketball, baseball, golf consulting, you name it. If it could keep the doors open, we did it. "

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LSU freshman golfer Sang Yi shot a 3-under par 69, leaving him tied atop the leaderboard after the opening round of the Schenkel/E-Z Go Invitational in Statesboro, Ga.

Despite Yis performance, the No. 18 LSU men and rsquo;s golf team faces an uphill battle for the remainder of the weekend after finishing tied for eleventh place.

The Tigers shot 8-over 296 as a team, leaving them tied with Vanderbilt and Virginia.

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Nkscouting, Virginia hasnt lost even ONE SINGLE recruit to VT in mens OR womens basketball. Even Leitao had a winning record against the Hokies (6-5) and Debbie Ryan is 9-2 against VT so far in the ACC. Adding Tech was a good move for the athletics department every school needs an in-state rival to get things riled up and increase donations in an effort to better the rival school. (And Virginia has certainly succeeded at that a dominating against VT in the ACC so far including all team sports thats a better winning percentage than before VT was in our conference I might add UVA is dominating VT in the recruiting of every single sport but football and maybe softball and even softball might turn around now with the new coach).

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This is Craig Littlepage and rsquo;s eighth year as athletic director at the University of Virginia, and many of the coaches he and rsquo;s hired during his tenure, including Brian Boland, Brian O and rsquo;Connor and Kim Lewellen, have dazzled. Littlepage and rsquo;s most celebrated hire, however, fizzled. After four seasons as men and rsquo;s basketball coach at U. Va. , Dave Leitao resigned under pressure last

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MINNEAPOLIS - It was roughly 25 minutes after the clock ran out on West Virginias season Saturday afternoon when DaSean Butler and Darryl "Truck and no. 39; Bryant walked out of the Mountaineers locker room and sat down on the back of a golf cart that would take them through the cavernous Metrodome to the requisite post-mortem press conference.

And when he was out there, it wasnt a pretty picture. West Virginias all-time leading 3-point shooter hit just one in four attempts. He scored only nine points, didnt have an assist and missed back-to-back free throws that could have tied the game down the stretch.

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Two kitchen workers were shot and killed around 8 p. m. Saturday at The Homestead luxury resort in the mountains near the West Virginia state line, Bath County Sheriff Larry Norfleet said. No one else was injured, and hotel spokeswoman Carol Stratford said no guests were present at the scene of the shooting. She said she didnt think guests heard the shots because a band was playing during dinner.

HOT SPRINGS, Va. (AP) -- Authorities in Virginia were searching Sunday for a resort employee suspected of shooting and killing two of his supervisors in the hotel kitchen while guests ate dinner in a nearby dining room.

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Central Virginia Sporting Clays was born about a year ago. Landseadel describes the business this way, "some people call it golf with a shotgun in that you go from station to station. So you might go to this station here, shoot a few, like hole number one in golf. "

Brad Landseadel loves clay target shooting. When he moved from Northern Virginia to Fluvanna County, he realized there wasnt a public shooting venue in the area. After getting a county permit and coaxing his wife, he turned part of his 150 acres into a shooting place for the public.

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But Monday, the Obama administration announced that it was going to waive the fees on SBA-backed loans, increase the guarantees to up to 90 percent of a loans value and even refund fees on loans that were issued since mid-February. That last perk will only affect about 20 recipients of loans through the Richmond office, which handles most of the state outside Northern Virginia.

One technicality for entrepreneurs to note: The act prohibits funds from being used by state or local government, or by entrepreneurs in the gambling, aquarium, zoo, golf course or swimming pool businesses.

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Brands performance put him in a tie for 40th overall in a highly competitive field. Medalist honors went to Penn States T. J. Howe who finished the tournament with a 209 (-7). Howes stellar performance pushed the Nittany Lions past second place Virginia Tech. Penn State won the team title with a two-under par 862, while the Hokies recorded a three-over par 867.

Marshall Universitys Christian Brand, a junior from Charleston, recorded rounds of 73, 75 and 76 for a three day total of 224 to lead the Thundering Herd mens golf team at the Pinehurst Intercollegiate that concluded .

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