AFP Podcasts
Street Knowledge is hosted by Chris Graham, the award-winning editor of The Augusta Free Press (Waynesboro, Va.), with episodes highlighting local news, Virginia and national politics, arts and culture, mental health, sports and professional wrestling.
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People who read AFP for our sports coverage know that I got the label “fringe media” from a mainstream sportswriter last year, and decided to adopt what was meant as an insult as a badge of honor, because that’s how you disarm people who want to diminish you – by making their attempts at insults into a big joke, to point out the absurdity.
What I’m going to do here today is tell you, it’s not just the dwindling numbers in what is l...
UVA Football faces William & Mary, an FCS school, in Week 3, so, not as much need to get folks ready.
This allows us to take the mid-week to review the disappointing 35-31 loss at NC State in Week 2.
It was disappointing because, in a lot of ways, the ‘Hoos did everything but win that game.
Today’s postmortem grades the offense, defense and special teams.
NASCAR Podcast | Preview of the Bristol night race, playoff eliminator
Denny Hamlin punched the second ticket to the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs Round of 12 with his win in Illinois.
Who will join Hamlin and Chase Briscoe in the Round of 12?
Rod Mullins will be representing AFP at Bristol Motor Speedway for Saturday’s night race, the eliminator for the Round of 12.
On the podcast, we go through the drivers on both sides of the ...
I don’t live in the 35th House District anymore, but the wide-expanse district – which stretches from Bath County, into Highland County, through the western half of Augusta County, to the northeast into a corner of Rockingham County – is still where I spent the bulk of my life.
The district covers 1,963.7 square miles – an area bigger than the state of Rhode Island (1,545 square miles), and not far behind Delaware (2,489 square mil...
UVA Football is in the Triangle for a Saturday noon kickoff at NC State, with the Pack installed as the 2.5-point favorite.
My job: to get you ready for the main storylines in the matchup.
I go through the Five Things to Watch For, and break down State based on what we saw in its 24-17 win over ECU in Week 1.
ICYMI
UVA Football vs. NC State | Five things to watch for in the Week 2 matchup
Podcast | Briscoe takes NASCAR playoff opener; latest in the charter lawsuit
Chase Briscoe took the checkered flag at Darlington, punching his ticket to the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs Round of 12.
Briscoe was the big winner, but plenty of playoff contenders lost ground in the opening race of the 2025 playoffs.
Rod Mullins joins the show to break down the list of guys who have a lot of work to do to stay on the right side of th...
The UVA Football team opened its 2025 season with a visually impressive 48-7 win over Coastal Carolina on Saturday.
What did we really see, though?
Part of my job is to try to make sense of such things.
On the pod, I go over the basics, tell a nice story about Cam Ross, the game MVP, who has been in college since 2019, and then break down, in granular detail, my Week 1 Report Card.
ICYMI
A Waynesboro man is on a mission to improve safety for everyone on the road after his daughter, Robyn, died tragically in New York City while doing bicycle messenger work in 2019.
Three weeks after their death, his younger daughter, Rachel, who was doing a training ride, was hit by the driver of a car in Charlottesville. Rachel, thankfully, was not seriously injured in the bicycle crash.
“Think about that for a moment,” Jay Hightma...
The 2025 NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs begin this weekend, with a Sunday night race at Darlington.
Rod Mullins joins the show to help get us ready.
We also break down the 2026 NASCAR schedule, which was released last week, and talk through the latest in the lawsuit challenging the NASCAR charter system, and what it could mean for 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports.
Austin Dillon stole one of the remaining spots in the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs with his win at Richmond on Saturday.
Two spots remain in the final race of the regular season, coming up Saturday night at Daytona.
Rod Mullins joins us to break down the field of contenders, and bid-stealers.
We also discuss the new sponsor for the second-tier series, O’Reilly Auto Parts, which will replace Xfinity as the title sponsor in 2026.
...I had a nice, informative – I’d like to think, to both sides – back-and-forth with an AFP reader this week, on the costs to attend the University of Virginia, and the impact that UVA Athletics does or doesn’t have on that.
The reader was responding to my recent series of articles discussing the approach that the athletics director, Carla Williams, has been taking to keep UVA Athletics competitive in the still-developing era in whic...
#TeamAFP staff writer Rod Mullins was down in Bristol this weekend – both days, as it turned out – for the 2025 MLB Speedway Classic at Bristol Motor Speedway.
The Atlanta Braves got the win, 4-2, over the Cincinnati Reds, but that was just part of what was going on at the iconic NASCAR venue.
Rod takes us in the press box and on the field to give us insight into what was going on behind the scenes.
The Cincinnati Reds and Atlanta Braves are on their way to Bristol after the splitting the first two games of a four-game series.
Why Bristol?
Rod Mullins previews the 2025 MLB Speedway Classic, which will feature a record-breaking crowd – more than 85,000 are expected – at Bristol Motor Speedway, which has been remade into a state-of-the-art baseball stadium for a one-night-only game on Saturday.
Rod was at BMS on Thursday, and he...
If you want to know what you need to know about UVA Football, you need to follow the money.
AFP staff writer Scott German joins the podcast for our summer UVA Football preview, and most of what we do over the course of the hour is, follow the money.
Scott talked last week with the new GM for UVA Football, Tyler Jones, and the assistant GM, Justin Speros, to learn more about the massive influx of dollars into the NIL budget, and how...
Two topics on the news podcast today:
- It has been made abundantly clear to me that UVA Athletics does not want to say anything, publicly, privately or otherwise, regarding the finding of misconduct against associate head swim coach Gary Taylor.
- I have had it up to, wherever, with Virginia Democratstelling me, several times a day, everything that Winsome Earle-Sears is doing wrong. Main issue for me here being: they never tell ...
An appeals court lifted an injunction in the antitrust suit filed by the owners of 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports against NASCAR, which could put the status of the two race teams in doubt ahead of the beginning of the trial in December.
Rod Mullins joins me for the podcast to break down the latest developments in the case/.
Rod also reports on the pending closure of the company that produces the grandfather clocks presented ...
UVA President Jim Ryan, whose contract was extended in 2022, before the MAGAs started gaining power on the BOV, was a goner; the only question was, how?
There was plenty to work with – the issues with leadership at UVA Health, which led to the resignation of its CEO, Craig Kent, in February; the failures on several fronts that factored into the entirely preventable shooting deaths of three UVA Football players in 2022.
Turns out, t...
NASCAR legend Richard Petty seems to think Shane Van Gisbergen did something wrong when Van Gisbergen won his way into the 2025 Cup Series playoffs this past weekend.
We talk about that, plus break down Dale Earnhardt Jr.’s one-off this coming weekend as a crew chief at Pocono.
Butch Wells, a member of the Augusta County Board of Supervisors, called me on Wednesday to address the controversial cancellation of a planned Pride Month event at the Augusta County Library that had been scheduled for this past Monday.
The explanation for how things went down last week on this doesn’t put anybody involved in the decision to pull the plug on the Pride Month event in a positive light.
Still no news on the status of Gary Taylor, the head coach of Cavalier Aquatics, the Piedmont Family YMCA competitive swim team, and an assistant coach with UVA Swimming, who is currently serving a two-year probation handed down by the U.S. Center for SafeSport.
AFP was the first to report on the investigation that concluded with Taylor admitting to emotional misconduct while coaching swimmers from 2015 to 2022 at North Carolina St...
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