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What we know on the Jahmal Edrine story

This Jahmal Edrine story isn’t one that is fun to report on. It involves a victim that UVA is not acknowledging, a young man who is facing criminal charges that could change his future course, and people who get paid good money to know better who don’t seem to have acted like they know better.

Do you sense the anguish?

That’s this podcast: anguish.

Let’s presume there will be a civil suit in the Augusta County officer-involved shooting

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 Sheriff’s Office than he is presenting as an elected prosecutor representing the people of Augusta County.

Dustin Griffin shooting case: More questions than answers

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 night of Dec. 17.

In this podcast, I go over where we are with the investigation, which is still ongoing, even as the Commonwealth’s Attorney, Tim Martin, has already decided to exonerate the deputies who shot and killed Griffin as they attempted to serve an arrest warrant at a location west of Staunton.

AFP coverage of the Dustin Griffin shooting

• Augusta County: Man killed in officer-involved shooting; one deputy airlifted
• Augusta County: Medical examiner confirms ID of man shot, killed by deputy
• The story of the man killed in Augusta County officer-involved shooting
• What’s the status of the investigation into the Dustin Griffin shooting death?
• Local media hypes jewelry store heist, ignores officer-involved shooting
• Augusta County: Prosecutor exonerates deputies in Dec. 17 shooting; still waiting for details
• Augusta County: What happened on Dec. 17 on Parkersburg Turnpike?
• Family of Dustin Griffin: ‘We want answers,’ not ‘premature conclusions’

UVA Basketball back on track, UVA Football news and notes

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 Odom Ball.

Then we spend some time breaking down the first couple of days of moves on the UVA Football transfer portal.

Story links

• UVA Basketball: ‘Hoos rebound from three-OT loss at Tech, defeat NC State, 76-61
• UVA Basketball: Virginia blows out NC State, 76-61, in Saturday ACC matinee
• Notebook: Ryan Odom talks with media after UVA Basketball win
• UVA Football: Unexpected big losses as the transfer portal opens for business
• Notebook: Eli Wood to transfer portal; Clemson hires Chad Morris to be OC

UVA Basketball: Bully ball doesn’t work if you let the other guys be the bullies

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 Basketball program.

The key points from Alan:

• We were bullied, even taking into account the whistle swallowing.
• If we’re not gonna run a scheme like the Pack Line, better brainstorm fast how we’re going to get stops in league play.

Readers think J’Mari Taylor should have risked injury to entertain them

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 earning potential when our favorite college football team needed him out there to win an exhibition game.

That, you know, they won anyway, without him.

Reggie Harris: Two-sport legend at Waynesboro High School

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 training in 1990.

“I’m just watching the previous World Series that year, in ’89, the earthquake series with San Francisco, and two weeks later, I’m on that team,” said Harris, who joined me to talk about his baseball career on the “Street Knowledge” podcast this week.

Everybody in UVA Athletics is on break; what do we talk about?

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 of something.

• UVA Football: Decisions still need to be made on the three coordinators
• UVA Basketball: How are last year’s guys doing at their new schools?
• UVA Football: ‘Hoos losing Ja’Son Prevard, Tyshawn Wyatt to transfer portal

DJ Andrew Hypes, fresh off tour with Justin Timberlake, hasn’t forgotten his hometown

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, it’s a little surreal: working in Dr. Dre’s studio, flying on private planes, standing in front of the Eiffel Tower – the real one, not the one at Kings Dominion – all stemming from his role as the official DJ for Justin Timberlake’s recently wrapped “The Forget Tomorrow World Tour.”

Breaking down the settlement in the NASCAR antitrust case

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 a sense of how things are going to play out going forward.

AFP contributor Rod Mullins joins the show to break down what we know.