AFP Podcasts

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 of collective bargaining for public-sector employees.

This is what Democrats do when they get elected; they forget who put them there, and try to reach out to the other side.

Predictable reaction from the other side to Spanberger reaching out: they’re still calling her a commie.

Why do we do this?

 

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 abuse of athletes at two other schools and a local YMCA.

After going into detail on Gary Taylor, we talk UVA hoops, how much it will cost the 1 percent to watch UVA Football play in Brazil, and how far UVA Baseball will get in the NCAA Tournament (spoiler: not very).

 

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 question; you don’t want to know any more about Ben Cline than you have to.

The Insane Cline Posse edition of “Street Knowledge,” debuting today, isn’t medicine, I promise.

I’ll tell you how much money Ben Cline, who pretends to hate government, has made working in government over the years.

(Hint: it’s a lot!)

Also on the show: we discuss SoCal transplant Rob Schilling, who so hated the libs on the Left Coast that he moved to Charlottesville – which, no, makes no sense at all – and hosts a MAGA radio talk show that five people listen to.

For some reason, UVA Athletics supports this crap.

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 covering the program for 30 years really thinks?

That’s all I can do.

I apologize in advance for the language.

Actually, nah.

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.