AFP Podcasts

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 know to click on the YouTube version – I want to beat the viewer number for Seth Davis and Andy Katz for their recent pod with Ryan Odom.

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 conversation, since I don’t think of myself as an interviewer.

We talked about his former Tea Party-ness, and how that no doubt makes it hard to get his foot in the door with some Democrats, but also, in a +3 D Sixth District, having crossover appeal can be a benefit in the November part of the cycle.

Again, hear him out.

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.

Baseball: have to apologize here. I so desperately want the ’Hoos to get back to Omaha this year, and to beat Brian O’Connor in getting there, that I’m holding Chris Pollard to ridiculously high standards.

 

https://youtu.be/s7LK6GEt7UA

#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.

Her job this week: to keep me on task talking about the April 21 congressional redistricting referendum.

We also discussed the ongoing decline of the Virginia news media, and what we’re trying to do to forge a new path forward.

Why not try to overturn the tables in front of that particular temple, right?

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.

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.

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 days by course corrections.

The solution: bombs.

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.”

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.

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, per the post: “tonight.”

Unless, from Trump, “different, smarter, and less radicalized minds prevail.”