Sports

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.

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.

The new multiuse complex also will offer a place for residents to play basketball, street soccer and hockey.

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.

The Fayette Area Historical Initiative launches an exhibit featuring pro athletes from Martinville, the earliest dating to 1916.

High school football kicks off Aug. 28.

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.

Wagner will be the first Virginian from west of Culpeper, and the first in the modern era, to be inducted into baseball’s hall of fame.

Wagner will be the first modern-day player inducted. Four of the previous five Virginians were stars in the Negro League.

The USA Cycling Endurance Mountain Bike Championships will be held next week at three sites across the Roanoke Valley: Carvins Cove, Explore Park and Elmwood Park.