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Virginia Tech Athlete Arrested On Charges He Abducted & Murdered 13-Year-Old
Blacksburg, Va. police today arrested Virginia Tech track athlete David Eisenhauer and charged him with the abduction and murder of a local 13-year-old....
Virginia Tech Wins Frank Beamer's Final Regular Season Game, Securing 23rd Straight Bowl
Virginia Tech came back and put up 17 points in the fourth quarter today to defeat Virginia and earn bowl eligibility for the 23rd straight year. Frank Beamer will now get one more game before Justin Fuente takes over as coach of the Hokies next year....
Virginia Tech Player Hits Ref In Frustration After Penalty Call
Today is Frank Beamer’s last home game for Virginia Tech, but #17 North Carolina is just now starting to pull away in the fourth quarter. Earlier in the game VT DE Dadi Nicolas was frustrated with an offside call made against him, and in his frustration, he hit the arm of referee Ron Cherry, earning...
Reports: Virginia Tech Coach Frank Beamer Is Retiring After The Season
According to reports from Mark Schlabach and others, longtime Virginia Tech football coach Frank Beamer is gong to retire after the conclusion of this season. ...
Virginia Tech Punter Makes Save Of The Year
This is an astounding play. Virginia Tech punter A.J. Hughes watches the snap fly far over his head into the end zone, and he manages to not only recover the ball but get a clean punt off that traveled 60 yards on the fly. It kept the Hokies within a touchdown of ECU, and left ESPN’s Mark Neely gras...
Yeah, That Is Totally A Gold Watch As Uniform Accessory
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The NCAA Has Always Paid Players; Now It's Just Harder To Pretend They Don't
Contrary to popular belief, the NCAA has only ever truly enforced a nationwide prohibition on payments to athletes for three years—from 1948 to 1951. Prior to that, there was no NCAA-wide rule on scholarships at all, meaning that the full flowering of the popularity of college football prior to Worl...
Here's The List Of Ridiculous Fines Virginia Tech Football Players Were Subject To
Yesterday, Virginia Tech defensive coordinator Bud Foster told reporters that he and other coaches had a policy of fining players for things like missing practices or meetings. The reason Foster was ever asked about fines in the first place was that a few beat reporters had noticed a screen in the t...
Asshole College Football Coach Comes Up With New Way To Screw Over His Players
Earlier this year, NCAA member institutions voted to redefine athletic scholarships so that they covered not only the cost of tuition, room and board, books, and fees, but also incidental expenses. Essentially, it gives players a bit of pocket money, which is really the least the NCAA could do consi...
Frank Beamer Apparently Terrifies Children
This poor little girl sitting next to Virginia Tech football coach Frank Beamer is sobbing uncontrollably, possibly because she has been seated next to Frank Beamer. Never forget:...
Ohio State's Loss To Va Tech Was The Worst Ever By A National Champ
It's nearly inconceivable that a national championship team, one that defeated the top two teams in the country with its third-string quarterback, lost earlier in the season to a school that had a losing conference record and barely qualified for a bowl game. But somehow Virginia Tech defeated Ohio ...
Now That's What I Call Respect
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Virginia, Virginia Tech Fight Over Which Team Is More Awful
Girls, girls, you're both 5-6....
Stop Celebrating. This Is Not An Occasion For Celebrating.
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Georgia Tech Wins On Last-Second FG, Swallows Own Kicker
Fellas! There's a person under there! Watch yourselves....
This Is Not Buzz Williams
The Buzz Williams era at Virginia Tech got off to an inauspicious start when Virginia Tech welcomed the former Marquette coach by appending a picture of his former assistant—another cherubic bald man—to Williams's entry in the staff directory....
Duke Wins At No. 14 Virginia Tech, May Not Totally Suck This Year
Blue Devils football, heretofore a model of futility, managed to roll into Blacksburg, Va., today and slip past a Virginia Team that was favored by almost two touchdowns. The 13-10 win made Duke bowl-eligible for a second straight year — a feat for a team that has played only nine bowl games, none o...
This Might Soon Be An Actual Virginia Tech Helmet
This design, featuring a representation of the "Hokie Stone" dolomitic limestone endemic to the Blacksburg campus, has been floating around for a couple of days. Today came confirmation: it's real....