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Let’s presume there will be a civil suit in the Augusta County officer-involved shooting (00:30:58)
Augusta County Commonwealth’s Attorney Tim Martin, in the matter of the Dec. 17 officer-involved shooting of Dustin Griffin, is acting more like a defense and civil attorney for the Augusta County She...
Dustin Griffin shooting case: More questions than answers (00:33:19)
Fair or not, we can’t take the Augusta County criminal-justice apparatus at its word that there’s no there there with respect to the shooting of Dustin Griffin, 42, by two sheriff’s deputies on the ni...
UVA Basketball back on track, UVA Football news and notes (00:19:12)
UVA Basketball dominated from the jump in a 76-61 win at NC State that wasn’t that close.
We dive into the game, and coach Ryan Odom’s technical foul – with detailed analysis on how the ‘Hoos did at O...
UVA Basketball: Bully ball doesn’t work if you let the other guys be the bullies (00:15:14)
Solid email this morning from Alan, regular reader, on the Tech-UVA game, the kind of good that got me to think through what we know, to this point, in Year 1 of Ryan Odom, about our new-look UVA Bask...
Readers think J’Mari Taylor should have risked injury to entertain them (00:12:00)
Shocker, right, that I got emails from a trove of White guys who think a young Black man named J’Mari Taylor should consider it a privilege to entertain them.
How dare the kid prioritize his future ea...
Reggie Harris: Two-sport legend at Waynesboro High School (00:28:56)
Two years after graduating from Waynesboro High School, Reggie Harris was taken by the Oakland A’s in the 1989 Rule 5 draft, and he made the team – the defending World Series champs – out of spring tr...
Everybody in UVA Athletics is on break; what do we talk about? (00:31:50)
We’ve been going practically non-stop since August, but now, we’ve hit a lull – UVA Football and UVA Basketball are both on an exam break, with no games for a week.
What do we talk about?
We’ll think ...
DJ Andrew Hypes, fresh off tour with Justin Timberlake, hasn’t forgotten his hometown (00:19:38)
Andrew Hypes has spent the last two years travelling all over the world: Paris, London Romania, Vegas, Poland and California, to name a few.
After growing up in Waynesboro, Virginia, population 23K, i...
Breaking down the settlement in the NASCAR antitrust case (00:12:38)
NASCAR settled the suit brought by two racing teams alleging violations of federal antitrust laws on Thursday.
The details of the settlement are only trickling out, but we have enough to begin to get ...
UVA-Virginia Tech preview; we get around to the game, eventually (01:00:31)
It’s UVA-Virginia Tech football week, so I got the gang together to preview the game, and we do, eventually.
But first: why are tickets so ridiculously expensive?
Scott German joins me to rain down fu...
Explosive texts, emails put NASCAR in perilous legal straits (00:35:21)
Leaks of internal communications between top NASCAR executives both hurt the racing series’ legal challenge from two NASCAR teams, and are also causing massive damage to the circuit in the court of pu...
James Franklin at Virginia Tech, UVA Football in Brazil, UVA hoops (01:16:45)
Virginia Tech has officially welcomed James Franklin to Hokie Nation. Will Franklin be the guy to get Tech Football back to where it was … 15 years ago now?
Yeah, it’s been awhile.
I had Scott German ...
The gang is back together on the bye week to talk UVA Football (00:54:45)
Chris Graham and Scott German get back together via podcast to review their preseason UVA Football prognostications, which, it turns out, were way off.
The guys thought 7-5 or 8-4 was possible, which ...
West Virginia trying to mooch off of us (00:05:46)
The West Virginia governor, Patrick Morrisey, and a Mountain State legislator, Chris Rose, think they see an opportunity to mooch off our prosperity.
Morrisey, last week, in the hours after our Blue W...
Putting a wrap on the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series season (00:50:51)
Kyle Larson snuck his way into his second NASCAR Cup Series title, winning in OT after a late wreck changed the calculus for Denny Hamlin.
And now, we have lots of questions.
Will NASCAR put the kibos...
Virginia needs to step up to protect victims of child rape (00:30:40)
The CDC tells us that one in four girls and one in 13 boys are, right know, as you read this, victims of sexual abuse – basically, let’s just call it what it is, child rape.
Do the math, and it’s not ...
NASCAR suit playing out against the backdrop of the Championship 4 (00:29:43)
It’s looking more and more like NASCAR is going to have to settle the suit challenging its charter system, not so much to save face, but to at least have a hand in setting the future direction of its ...
Intrigue in NASCAR on the track, in the courtroom, as 2025 season winds down (00:22:34)
A settlement conference in the NASCAR antitrust suit will head into a second day, after lawyers for the privately owned racing circuit and two of the sport’s top teams met in court on Tuesday to see i...
Pete Barlow to Virginia Democrats: Let’s be the big tent party (00:23:33)
Healthcare isn’t a red or blue issue, says Pete Barlow, an Augusta County Democrat running for Congress in the 2026 midterms cycle.
Farmers having markets closed to them because of the Trump tariffs –...
Lisa Vedernikova Khanna | Soon-to-be new mom running for Congress (00:20:19)
When Lisa Vedernikova Khanna called her Russian immigrant mother a few months ago to tell her that she was running for Congress, mom was, let’s just say, a tad bit disappointed.
“She was hoping that I...
Who is this ‘Humble Denny Hamlin’ of whom you speak? (00:34:32)
Denny Hamlin, who won Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series playoff race in Las Vegas, was described by our Rod Mullins as downright “humble” post-race, which leads to the question: did somebody do something to ...
Happy Anniversary, OBX news, UVA-Trump, UVA Football in the Top 25 (00:27:58)
It’s the anniversary edition of the #TeamAFP podcast. My co-host and breaking news editor, Crystal Graham, said I do 25 years ago today, on Oct. 7, 2000.
To mark 25 years of her having to put up with ...
Van Gisbergen wins at the Roval (00:39:03)
Shane van Gisbergen, shocker, took the win at the Charlotte Roval, notching his fifth road-race win of the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series season.
Rod Mullins was down in Charlotte for us this past weekend, an...
Neighbors disagree with couple’s efforts to push homeless out (00:10:01)
Augusta Free Press reporter Crystal Graham breaks down two sides to an issue involving homeless people at a Waynesboro church.
While a couple who lives next door has raised concerns about safety and...
Deep inside the dust-up between Denny Hamlin, Bubba Wallace (00:30:15)
Denny Hamlin drives for Joe Gibbs Racing. He’s also the co-owner of 23XI Racing, which has Bubba Wallace efforting to stay alive in the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series playoffs.
So, when Hamlin bumped Wallace ...
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