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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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10:53

UVA Football | Preview of ‘Hoos vs. NC State in Week 2

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2025/09/05

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 UVA Football Week 2 | What ‘Hoos fans need to know about NC State Chandler Morris update | UVA Football QB a

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22:31

Briscoe takes NASCAR playoff opener

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2025/09/03

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 the cut line the next two weekends. We also discuss the latest in the

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34:16

Review of UVA Football’s Week 1 win over Coastal...

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2025/09/01

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 Report Card | Grading out UVA Football in the 48-7 win over Coastal Carolina UVA Football | The Cam Ross you saw

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34:46

Grieving father advocates for bicycle safety

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2025/09/01

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 Hightman told AFP. “I nearly lost both of my children to road violence in

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22:21

It’s NASCAR Cup Series playoff season

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2025/08/27

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.

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26:38

One race left for drivers to punch NASCAR playoff ticket

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2025/08/18

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.

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11:30

UVA athletes are getting paid: Some people have a...

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2025/08/08

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 which college athletics finances are driven by the need to provide

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34:33

#TeamAFP was in Bristol for the 2025 MLB Speedway...

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2025/08/04

#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.

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31:12

MLB Speedway Classic preview

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2025/08/01

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 takes us behind the scenes to get us ready for this most unique

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01:06:49

Mo’ money, no problem for UVA Football

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2025/07/29

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 that changed things in terms of recruiting.

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13:59

UVA Athletics isn’t sorry; Abigail Spanberger needs...

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2025/07/11

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 me what the person who I want to be governor, Abigail Spanberger, wants

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30:02

NASCAR charter lawsuit latest

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2025/07/11

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 to winners at Cup Series races at Martinsville Speedway and the

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11:57

UVA President Jim Ryan resigns

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2025/06/27

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, the leverage point would be DEI, with a pair of UVA alums in the Trump

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30:08

Richard Petty didn’t like Shane Van Gisbergen...

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2025/06/20

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.

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13:27

Inside the decision to cancel the Augusta County...

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2025/06/20

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.

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23:46

Cav Aquatics, UVA Swimming coach Gary Taylor on...

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2025/06/11

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 State, Auburn and Cavalier Aquatics. On the podcast, I report on what

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16:49

VSP, FBI, Homeland Security involved in Harrisonburg...

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2025/06/06

Eight immigrants went to work in Harrisonburg on Tuesday morning and didn’t return home that night.Crystal Graham tracked down the story of what happened to them, talking with a witness at the scene where the FBI and Homeland Security detained the eight, and threatened locals who tried to intervene to inform the immigrants of their rights.

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13:53

Bartender, drag queen finds home in Staunton

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2025/06/06

The Alejandro Queen will bring all her showmanship to the stage – big hair and makeup and elaborate clothing – Saturday night at The Foundry in Waynesboro. On the pod: I speak with AFP editor Crystal Graham, who interviewed Alejandro Circelli, the Staunton man behind The Alejandro Queen, to talk about how he became a drag performer, his life as a gay man in the conservative Shenandoah Valley, and the importance of LGBTQ+ allies.

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13:53

Brian O’Connor got his bag of money from Mississippi...

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2025/06/06

The world learned Thursday night that Brian O’Connor, who had signed an extension with UVA just last June that paid him $1.4 million a year, making him the eight-highest-paid coach in college baseball, is now the second-highest-paid coach in college baseball, at $2.9 million a year. Mississippi State Athletics went out of its way to make this public – which is to say, they didn’t make reporters file a FOIA request and wait five days to get a copy of the term sheet. The former Mississippi

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40:07

Everything I know about what’s happening with UVA...

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2025/06/03

I’d much rather be writing about UVA Baseball getting ready for another Super Regional weekend, but things didn’t work out as expected.Instead, the news is, Brian O’Connor left town in the middle of the night for Mississippi State, supposedly because Mississippi State is a better situation baseball-wise. I’ve been covering this from all possible angles – examining the money, the impact of the move on O’Connor’s legacy, and where UVA goes to for its next baseball coach.

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