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AFP Podcasts
by Chris Graham
Augusta Free Press editor Chris Graham talks UVA athletics, pro wrestling and Virginia politics.
Episodes
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Podcast: What Carla Williams needs to be doing right now
I’m not the AD at Virginia, which, great news for Virginia there, because the donors wouldn’t give the athletics department a dime if I were running it. Kissing the asses of the money people is an important part of the job. The other part of the job involves being the ultimate person within the...
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Sure feels like UVA Football is getting near a crossroads point
The people who fund UVA Football aren’t paying millions to lose 38-7 to a program that is about to fire its coach. The ball is now in the court of head coach Tony Elliott, who has a lot of fixin’ to do ahead of this week’s game with Syracuse. I don’t know that I expect the fixin’ to be all that...
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What we know about the death of AEW star PAC, which is, not much
AEW star PAC – real name: Benjamin Satterley – passed away on Sunday in Des Plaines, Ill., hours after wrestling on the “All Out” pay-per-view. The details are beginning to trickle out, so this is, for the most part, at this stage, still a lot of unknowns. What do we know? PAC was a star. He…
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UVA Football was exposed in ugly loss to West Virginia
It’s back to the drawing board for the UVA Football program, which had its major flaw, at QB, exposed in its 38-27 loss to West Virginia in Week 3. Another flaw – defensive coordinator John Rudzinski just assuming he can game plan based on the depth and athleticism of his group – was also…
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UVA Football: We’re officially on Clemson Reaching Out to Our Coach Watch
The only job that I can imagine UVA Football coach Tony Elliott leaving us for is the one at his alma mater, Clemson, where Elliott started his career as a walk-on, ended as a co-captain with an engineering degree, then came back to as a coach to serve as the play-caller for two national champs.…
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Westwood Hills parents demand meeting with administrators, as harrowing details of shooting emerge
A group of parents of students at Westwood Hills Elementary School has launched a petition on Change.org to request a meeting with Waynesboro Public Schools administration regarding safety issues at the school, as we’re learning troubling details about just how much more tragic the shooting at…
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UVA Football | That Virginia team is who we thought they were
The national folks just don’t pay attention. The Virginia team that pummeled NC State into submission in a game that finished out with a 34-8 final score, and wasn’t that close, is who we thought they were – deep at every position group, and fine-tuned after a near-miss at a berth in the CFP.
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Pro boxer battered in 2015 match in Northern Virginia dies from injuries at 33
A former contender in the pro boxing ranks whose career ended in a disputed DQ loss in a 2015 match in Northern Virginia that left him in a vegetative state died on Thursday. Prichard Colon, 33, a native of Florida who relocated to Puerto Rico to train as an amateur boxer, was 16-0 as a pro going...
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Charlottesville filmmaker, living with ALS, makes death the focus of final doc
Award-winning documentary filmmaker Chris Farina, in 2016, began work on a new project with the working title “Death Becomes You,” with the idea of tackling what is very much a taboo subject: death. For obvious reasons, we don’t like talking about it – death – because, while it’s inevitable…
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Analysis of Baltimore Orioles-Boston Red Sox blockbuster Adley Rutschman trade
Baltimore Orioles fans are going to be upset at the news of the trade of former #1 overall pick Adley Rutschman to AL East rival Boston, and that the O’s didn’t get back any big-league talent in return. No need to fret: this one’s actually a good deal.
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The deck was stacked against a former Marine who died by suicide in a Virginia jail
The Stafford County man who died by suicide on Sunday while in custody at the Rappahannock Regional Jail never had a chance. “He said, ‘Sissy, I didn’t do this, but men don’t beat rape charges. I’m going to die in jail,’” said Elizabeth Self, whose brother, Christopher Lee Franklin, 40, was...
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Three groups of people who piss me the eff off
Not the oligarchs, surprisingly. The obscenely wealthy are nothing new; their obscenity dates back to the ancients. It's MAGA voters, the far, far, far, far, far left, and elected Democrats who don't want to rock the boat - who are afraid to stand up, and so, give up. Those people piss me the eff...
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Can Adam Dunigan pull the upset of Don Beyer in the Eighth District primary?
There’s an alternate universe, in which the Virginia Supreme Court follows the law instead of trying to write it, in which Adam Dunigan is running for a congressional nomination in a district that represents Augusta County. The Marine Corps and CIA veteran is now focused on pulling an upset in…
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NBA Draft wrap, NCAA rules impact on UVA Basketball
The 30-win UVA Basketball team had one second-round pick in the 2026 NBA Draft, in Ugonna Onyenso, the backup center. Ryan Odom can squeeze value out of the talent, I tell you. I break down how Onyenso fits at the next level, and the impact of new NCAA eligibility rules on UVA Hoops, here in the...
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We get our democracy back through putting miles on our shoes
We’re all tired of the headlines about the latest nonsense coming out of DC, and while we can’t change how we got here – 2016, 2020, 2024 – we can change things going forward. It’s not enough to snark online, to your spouse, among friends. I’m not the biggest fan of just going to rallies with...
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Last one to cash your Social Security check, turn out the lights
The right at 175,000 Social Security recipients in the Sixth District in Virginia could vote en masse for the party that has a plan for saving Social Security from going insolvent by 2032, and in so doing, get us moving toward saving Social Security from going insolvent by 2032. We all know that...
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UVA Basketball: Has Ryan Odom built himself a Top 10 team for next season?
This time last year, UVA Basketball coach Ryan Odom was introducing a bunch of strangers to each other, and trying to convince them, and everybody else, that they could get Virginia Basketball back to where it had been not that long ago. Heading into his second summer as the head coach, Odom is...
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Podcast: Are we about to lose the other of our local newspapers?
It was odd that Waynesboro and Staunton were each able to maintain their local daily newspapers for so long, given the realities of the media market, but we couldn’t keep the good thing going forever, it seems. The News Virginian, based in Waynesboro, let go its final remaining full-time news...
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#TeamAFP plays the ‘Late Show with Stephen Colbert’ 15 questions game
“Late Show with Stephen Colbert” is no more, replaced by an infomercial, but AFP editor Crystal Graham is keeping the spirit alive. Crystal engaged fellow editor Chris Graham in a game of 15 questions, ripped straight from the 15 questions that Colbert would often lob at celebrity guests. How do...
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Listen to This Article: Rumor mill: UVA is low-balling men’s golf coach Bowen Sargent on extensionets prison time (for now)
A situation similar to what we just saw play out with UVA Lacrosse coach Lars Tiffany could be in the works with the coach at UVA Men’s Golf, Bowen Sargent. Sargent’s contract expires at the end of the academic sports year, on June 30, and word around the clubhouse is, the first offer on the…
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Listen to This Article: Now we have Spanberger vetoing the Affordable Medicine Act
Massive bipartisan majorities voted to pass the Affordable Medicine Act that Gov. Abigail Spanberger is signaling today that she plans to veto. State Sen. Creigh Deeds, D-Charlottesville, one of the authors of the legislation, which would create a Prescription Drug Affordability Board to review...
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Listen to This Article: Virginia man who posted thousands of threats of Dems gets prison time (for now)
A Virginia man who used a MAGA social media platform linked to a former Trump aide to threaten Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, Barack Obama and former Trump FBI Director Christopher Wray, among many others, is, for now, at least, facing 30 months in prison. Who knows, Frank Lucio Carillo, 68, of...
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Podcast: What happened to the Abigail Spanberger who ran for governor last year?
Will the real Abigail Spanberger please stand up, please stand up, please stand up? The one who ran for governor last year didn’t end up being the one who took the oath of office; that’s all we know now. We found this out this week, with her gutting of paid family and medical leave, and her veto…
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Podcast: What’s making news in UVA Athletics this week
We eventually get around to breaking down the latest addition to the UVA Basketball rotation on our podcast, but first. Gotta start with how UVA Athletics is stonewalling me on the status of assistant swim team coach Gary Taylor, who is in Year 2 of a probation handed down in 2025 for emotional...
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Debut of the Insane Cline Posse edition of ‘Street Knowledge’
We don’t want to be stuck with Ben Cline just because the feckless MAGA congressman was successful spending other people’s millions to convince four MAGAs on the Supreme Court of Virginia to overturn the April 21 referendum. Want to know more about Ben Cline than you ever knew before? Wrong...
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You want fanzine coverage of UVA Basketball? Go somewhere else
Everybody has a breaking point. I got to mine today cleaning out the comment section on AFP on two of my recent UVA Basketball articles. Seems that a lot of folks want fanzine coverage of their favorite team. This ain’t the place to get your coverage, then. Want to know what a guy who has been...
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Get ready to pay up for field access to UVA Football
UVA Athletics is going to give us a chance to wine and dine our clients on the field at Scott Stadium this fall. The cost: $2,500 minimum. I’m going to hold out for something bigger, which I explain on this week’s rundown of what’s making news in UVA sports. Also, if you could, tell everybody you...
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Rob Tracinski discusses his Sixth District congressional campaign
Rob Tracinski, running for the Democratic Party nomination in the new Sixth District, is – and hear me out on this – a former Tea Party guy. I know, a lot of y’all area already turned off, but. Hear him out, is all I’ll say here. Tracinski joined me today for what I’ll call good political...
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Quiet UVA Basketball portal season, UVA Baseball still in Top 10
I make my return to the podcast airwaves today with a deep dive into UVA Basketball and UVA Baseball. First, on the hoops: there’s no news, and I explain why, and apologize, because the silence is all my fault. Seriously. I’m the reason we’re all having to read the smoke wafting up from JPJ....
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#TeamAFP talks referendum, decline of Virginia media
Actually, first, this week’s “Street Knowledge” acknowledges that, it’s going to be hot in our part of the world in the next few days – with temperatures forecast to get near or above 90 this week. A little early for that. Crystal Graham joins the show to keep me in line – good luck with that.…
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Why Tim Sands is stepping down at Virginia Tech
Something is going on down at Virginia Tech, where the school’s president, Tim Sands, announced to Hokie Nation on Thursday, in a shock move, that he will be stepping down in the coming months. And it took a sports guy – not me – to figure it out.
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TNA brass pulls plug on Nic Nemeth-MJF indy match
TNA President Carlos Silva, obviously getting marching orders from big brother WWE, has forced Nic Nemeth, the former Dolph Ziggler, out of a May 1 indy match with AEW champ MJF, citing “partner conflicts.” Uh, huh.
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How Abigail Spanberger fixes her polling problem: Bombs, obviously
Abigail Spanberger isn’t polling well right now, but I think I’ve got the solution. No, not better policies. I mean, a big part of the problem is that she’s not doing well with Democrats and independents, because she’s governing like a center-right Republican. We don’t fix bad poll numbers these...
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Ben Cline likes the deal allowing Iran to charge tolls on the Strait of Hormuz
Iran got Donald Trump to agree to a two-week ceasefire in which the Iranians basically give up nothing, and actually secured the right to charge tolls on ships navigating the Strait of Hormuz – and Ben Cline thinks this is “a beautiful thing.”
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ESPN’s ‘Way-Too-Early Top 25’ for 2026-2027 has ‘Hoos at #9
ESPN.com college basketball scribe Jeff Borzello has his “Way-Too-Early Top 25” for next season out this morning, and has Virginia at #9.
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Trump to Iran: ‘A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again’
Donald Trump, not at all off his rocker, is, today, threatening Iran with total genocide. “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will,” Trump posted on his Truth Social account, timestamp: 8:06 a.m. Tuesday. Deadline…
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Bedford man known as ‘Slim’ was last seen on April 7, 2000
The AWARE Foundation is highlighting the cold case of James Davis Walker, who was last seen on April 7, 2000, in the Food Lion parking lot on Longwood Avenue in Bedford. Walker, known to friends and family as Slim – he was 6’7”, 140 pounds, at the time of his disappearance, at the age of 53 – may...
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School bus driver in custody after alleged strangulation of student
A school bus driver in Lynchburg allegedly assaulted a student and has been arrested and charged with strangulation and child neglect.
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UVA Basketball: Examining the case for reaching out to Jenny Boucek
UVA Basketball alum Jenny Boucek would obviously be somebody whose agent you’d want to contact about the coaching vacancy in the UVA women’s hoops program.
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UVA Basketball: Kymora Johnson in the portal; South Carolina as landing spot?
First-team All-ACC guard Kymora Johnson is entering the transfer portal, and there is one possible, quite logical, landing spot for her – on the roster of legendary UVA point guard Dawn Staley down at South Carolina.
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Charlottesville rugby club team begins playoff run
Rugby is American football, without pads and helmets, and without mass substitutions – and if you’re bleeding after a hit, nothing to it, ’tis but a scratch. “I hate being pulled out, even just to catch my breath. I want to be out there for the full 80 minutes,” said Perry Allen, a member of the...
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Will Wade throws his NC State squad under the bus one last time
To the UVA Basketball fans who thought they wanted Will Wade over Ryan Odom, and you know who you are, Wade not only already lost his way out of his first NCAA Tournament at NC State, with last night’s last-second defeat in the First Four, but he’s also a loser.
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On the road to Philly with UVA Basketball
I’ll be heading to Philly on Thursday to cover the first weekend of the 2026 NCAA Tournament, with a focus on #9 Virginia, which opens play on Friday as the #3 seed in the Midwest Region. On the podcast, I offer insight into what we’ve learned about the first-round opponent, #14 seed Wright…
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Interview: Journalist, author, candidate Beth Macy
Beth Macy did a sitdown with me for this week’s “Street Knowledge” podcast. Macy is a triple threat: journalist, bestselling author (Dopesick), and now, congressional candidate – running for the Democratic Party nomination in the Sixth District in Virginia. We talked at length about her work on...
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UVA Athletics has its favorites: I’m not one of them
You want to know what I really think about how UVA Athletics treats people? You already know that I’ve been going to bat for fans who are getting screwed out of a home football game so that the fat cats can have an excuse to go to Brazil. And how I feel about the this is not a reseating reseating...
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What UVA Basketball fans need to know about Wake Forest
Let’s see if the ‘Hoos can get back on track Tuesday night against a Wake Forest team that seems to be better than me than its 15-14 record would seem to indicate. The Deacs played Duke better in Cameron, lost by one in OT to Michigan – that one was back in November, but still. And they’re 4-2 in...
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UVA Basketball: Man, Duke put quite the thumping on our ‘Hoos there
Thijs de Ridder hit an open three at the 17:02 mark, his second basket in the opening three minutes. We didn’t know it at the time, but Virginia’s next bucket wouldn’t come for another seven and a half minutes. A Chance Mallory three on a fast break got the ‘Hoos to within 19-12 with 7:52 to go,...
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Tom Perriello: 'What people remember is when we stand up for people'
Tom Perriello knew when he cast his vote for the Affordable Care Act in 2010 that it may very well cost him his job as a freshman congressman. He did it anyway. Because it was the right thing to do. Imagine that. “I think when we think about what we do right and what we don't do right, what…
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Another gritty win for tough-minded UVA Basketball program
The 70-66 win over Ohio State on Saturday night was the sixth in a row for the UVA Basketball team, but, man, nothing comes easy for this group, does it? Selfishly, gritty wins are good for writers and podcasters, because there’s more to write and talk about. ICYMI: UVA vs. Ohio State Preview…
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How does UVA Athletics handle misconduct accusations?
I think it would be helpful to know how the University handles accusations of the nature currently involving former UVA Football wideout Jahmal Edrine, who was indicted by an Albemarle County grand jury last week on rape and abduction charges, in an incident reported to police on Aug. 25, 2025....
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