McDuffie joins two other former Hargrave players and a former Clemson teammate with the Kansas City Chiefs

NFL teams want to know how quickly their players learn and by what methods. That’s one reason every college player who attends the NFL combine takes the Wonderlic Personnel Test.

The Washington Redskins entered the first day of the NFL draft hoping to get either a big receiver or a better selection of draft choices. They wound up with both, plus an extra wide receiver.

“I met my personal goal (so) I feel really good right now,” Rob Arnold said.  “It was pretty difficult (but) it was a great day to run. It was fantastic. You couldn’t ask for a better day.”

Tiger Woods could not manage a comeback at Augusta, as Trevor Immelman holds on for his first Masters win.

Two Virginia Tech golfers take on the field at Augusta.  Johnson Wagner is at even par with Tiger Woods, while Drew Weaver is 4 over heading into Friday’s second round.

Football Hall of Famer Howie Long, who attended a Boys and Girls Club while growing up in Massachusetts, thanked the community for generating the money and enthusiasm needed to start another branch of the organization in Central Virginia

Tonight is the first game of the season for the Avs.  Clemens’ son Koby plays catcher.  The first pitch is scheduled for a little after 7:00 p.m.

No, the Hillcats are nothing like last year’s team, but considering how that squad fared, that’s a good thing.

Judging by experiences in other minor league cities, Waynesboro will have a difficult, though not impossible task.

Police in Pine Township charged Wilson, 29, after he allegedly pushed Lindsey Paulat and then punched her in the face on Wednesday night.

Beginning next week, all professional tennis tournaments using an electronic replay system will offer players the same amount of challenges per match.

Red Sox resolve pay dispute, end threatened boycott of spring training game, Japan trip

As approximately 200 people looked on, the players stopped Tuesday at the Blacksburg campus to view the 32 stone memorials dedicated to the April 16 shooting victims.

Tomlin is a member of the school’s class of 1995 and was a three-year starter at wide receiver for William and Mary

The team will visit English Field next Tuesday for an exhibition game against Virginia Tech.

He has been the topic of trade rumors for three months now, most of them involving the Chicago Cubs. Rarely does an hour go by when the two-time All-Star isn’t reminded about his seemingly imminent departure from the organization with which he has spent his entire career.

Wade had surgery on his left knee and left shoulder last May. He still intends to be a part of the USA team that will compete in the Beijing Olympics in August.

Green Bay Packers QB Brett Favre retires after 17 seasons, says he’s ‘tired’

Roethlisberger threw 32 touchdown passes with only 11 interceptions in leading the Steelers to the playoffs this past season, bouncing back from a 2006 season marred by a motorcycle accident and an appendectomy.

The FBI has begun investigating whether Roger Clemens lied to Congress when he denied taking steroids, officials said Thursday in the case of another baseball star snared in a long-running inquiry into drug use by professional athletes.

Congress asked the Justice Department on Wednesday to investigate whether Roger Clemens made false statements to a House committee

Most people would call a month-long trip to Florida to watch baseball a vacation.  Ryan Thomas is calling it work.

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell hopes the NFL is close to an agreement that will allow former New England Patriots employee Matt Walsh to tell the league about the tapes he is said to have made of the St. Louis Rams’ walkthrough before the 2002 Super Bowl.

Mitchell, the Seattle Seahawks running back coach since 1999, will also have the title of assistant head coach with the Redskins. He and Zorn worked together on the Seahawks staff from 2001 through last season.

Cal Ripken, Jr.‘s selflessness is what won him over with fans during his 21-year Hall of Fame baseball career. It’s also what endeared him to Virginia Tech’s baseball team and more than 300 Hokies supporters Monday night

The New England Patriots signed veteran free agent linebacker T.J. Slaughter on Tuesday.

Always the energetic left-hander, Jim Zorn had an upbeat but nervous start to his coming-out event with the Washington Redskins.

A lawyer for Roger Clemens said Saturday the pitcher can prove he didn’t attend a June 1998 party at Jose Canseco’s home described by Brian McNamee in the Mitchell Report.

The Washington Redskins hired Jim Zorn as their coach Saturday night, a surprise ending to a monthlong search for a replacement for Joe Gibbs.  “I’ve always dreamed of being a head coach with a franchise rich in tradition like the Redskins,“ Zorn said in a team news release.