AFP Podcasts Chris Graham

The UVA Basketball roster looks to be set for the coming 2024-2025 season with four additions from the transfer portal.
How are things looking, then, for next season?
Pretty good, is the answer from AFP editor Chris Graham, who is not prone to just being nice for the sake of being nice.
Story referenced in this podcast:
UVA gets its guys from the transfer portal: How does the roster look for 2024-2025?

Virginia coach Tony Bennett has been busy, adding four players from the transfer portal, including former Duke player and 2023 five-star TJ Power.
AFP editor Chris Graham breaks down the pickups.
Stories referenced in this podcast:
Virginia lands Duke five-star TJ Power: How does Power fit with the ‘Hoos?
Bennett lands another big man, San Diego State’s Elijah Saunders, off the portal
Would you believe, more UVA Basketball transfer portal news? Welcome, Carter Lang
Bennett lands first 2024 transfer portal recruit: Florida State combo guard Jalen Warley

We just had the closest finish to a NASCAR Cup Series race in history - literally an inch separating Kyle Larson and Chris Buescher in Kansas on Sunday.
But there's tension behind the scenes in NASCAR-land, with the private owners of the racing series and the owners of the race teams who want to share more in the TV money at odds over how they can move forward.
Rod Mullins and Chris Graham break down the business issues, and the exciting finish to Sunday's race.

Denny Hamlin called his shot last week on his podcast, telling listeners that he was going to take the checkered flag at Dover.
Then, Hamlin, the Virginia native, went out and did it.
AFP’s resident NASCAR Cup Series writer, Rod Mullins, joins the show to break down Hamlin’s win, Kyle Larson’s second-place finish, the big wreck 72 laps from the finish that took out, among others, Bubba Wallace, and the rest of what on last weekend in Delaware.

Tyler Reddick emerged at the head of the pack in a wild finish in Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race at Talladega.
Reddick, who drives for 23XI Racing, celebrated the win with team co-owner Michael Jordan – yes, that Michael Jordan.
Reddick crossed the finish as literally all heck broke loose behind him.
AFP’s resident NASCAR writer, Rod Mullins, takes us through how it all went down on Sunday, and recaps Saturday’s exciting Xfinity Series race, which was won by 19-year-old rookie Jesse Love.

Ken Mitchell, the Democrat challenging Trump Republican Ben Cline for the Sixth District seat in Congress, isn’t going to get a writeup in Blue Virginia.
Ben Tribbett isn’t going to tweet about his campaign.
Richmond and Northern Virginia Democrats are going to ignore him, like the ignore everybody else with a D beside their name west of the Route 29 corridor.
Which is a shame.
Because Ken Mitchell is the kind of Democrat who actually has a Tom Perriello ‘08 longshot chance of winning in November.