2-7-04 For the second straight year, the “Parade High School All-America Football Team” doesn’t have a single player from the state of Virginia on it. Perhaps this explains why UVa and Virginia Tech have mediocre records in most years: if the state of Virginia doesn’t produce blue-chippers, in the words of Charles Barkley , you [...]
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future professional point guard Tyrese Rice of Chesterfield, VA
2-6-04 Last Saturday I went up to J.E.B. Stuart High to see them host Yorktown High in boy’s basketball. Not much talent there. However, JEB Stuart High does have a freshman point guard who starts on their varsity, named Derrick Bowman , who although just 5-6, projects as a college prospect on some level. More [...]
Read More »2004: Oak Hill Academy plays at Franklin County High
1-17-04 I drove to Franklin County High School in Rocky Mount, Virginia, about 20 miles south of Roanoke, Virginia and about 40 miles north of the North Carolina border, on this icy cold winter night to see the last game of a quadruple-header. The game pitted Group AAA (large school) Franklin County High against the [...]
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