This week, 184 teams begin a five-week pursuit of one of the six VHSL championship games scheduled for Dec. 13.
Robert Anderson
Robert Anderson worked for 44 years in Virginia as a sports writer, most recently as the high school sports editor at The Roanoke Times. before retiring in June 2022. He has won multiple Virginia Press Association awards for sports writing portfolio and has been honored nationally by The Associated Press Sports Editors. Anderson is a North Carolina native and a graduate of Martinsville High School in Virginia and Emory & Henry College. He is a 2025 inductee into the Virginia High School Hall of Fame.
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Salem’s minor league baseball team is renamed the Salem RidgeYaks
The team retains its affiliation with the Boston Red Sox but wanted a unique name for marketing purposes.
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VHSL football playoff primer: Here are the scenarios
Here’s what to look for in the final weekend of the regular season.
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Some Virginia colleges now play a team that won’t hear the cheers: The players are deaf
Gallaudet University, a Washington-based school for deaf students, is playing its first season in the Old Dominion Athletic Conference. The coach talks about how he coaches players with hearing loss.
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Lee High School golfers face a long drive to state tournament — so the team is flying instead
The golf team’s success highlights how far away Virginia westernmost county is. A Lee County company is using one of its corporate jets to fly the golf team to Tappahannock.
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Salem honors ‘the savior of baseball’ in the Roanoke Valley
When it looked as if Salem’s minor league team would leave town in the 1980s for better facilities elsewhere, Kelvin Bowles bought the team and persuaded the city to build a new stadium.
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‘This small area can produce big things.’ Black history museum honors pro athletes from Martinsville
The Fayette Area Historical Initiative launches an exhibit featuring pro athletes from Martinville, the earliest dating to 1916.
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VHSL football schedules for 2025: Every game in the state listed
High school football kicks off Aug. 28.
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Salem’s Murray Cook built baseball’s ‘Field of Dreams.’ Now he’s turned the Bristol speedway into a diamond.
When Major League Baseball needs a field built for a special location, be it the “Field of Dreams” or this weekend’s game at the Bristol Motor Speedway, it turns to Murray Cook, who grew up in Salem and now lives in Roanoke County.
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VHSL: Auburn, Appomattox win state baseball titles, Eastside takes softball championship
Here are scores and reports from the state tournament.