Sports briefs
BASEBALL
The Rams lost the third game in their four game series with the Central Florida Knights this past Saturday, 12-6. Senior Justin Wright (Yorktown/Grafton) finished the game a perfect 4 for 4 at the plate. Wright also scored three runs while driving in another.
A T.O. with T.H.
This week Jim Calhoun, the head coach of the Connecticut Huskies, fired off at a member of the press when the reporter asked Calhoun about his salary.
Ken Krayeske asked Calhoun if he minded being the highest-paid state employee in Connecticut, despite the tough economy.
This week
MEN’S BASEBALL
Fri., Feb. 27, Long Island, The Diamond, 3 p.m.
Sat., Feb. 28, Long Island (DH), The Diamond, 2 p.m.
Sun., March 1, Long Island, The Diamond, 1 p.m.
MEN’S BASKETBALL
Sat., Feb. 28, Georgia State, Siegel Center, 4 p.m.
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
Thu.
An exercise in bracketology
March Madness is right around the corner and the coveted No. 1 seeds are still up for grabs. Right now there are several teams that could end up a No. 1. If the season ended today, here are the sports editors’ picks for their No. 1 seeds.
Jerome’s Picks
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Weekend Calendar
Thursday 2/26
“Wall Drawing #541: A Masterpiece of Conceptual Art?” Art talk by John Ravenal, curator of modern and contemporary art discusses the removal and reinstallation of a Sol LeWitt wall drawing. 2 p.m. Free. The Pauley Center. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
Practice makes perfect
It is cold in the garage, but the members of The Onset don’t even notice-they’re too busy practicing for their first show.
Drums, guitars and amps take up floor space as rock music fills the air while the band practices its songs.
The Onset formed when two of its members, drummer Eric Bandy and lead vocalist Charlotte Kennedy, were both in different bands.
Gorilla Productions brings battle to Richmond
Opportunities for small bands to pick up music industry knowledge and get a real shot at success rarely come. But Gorilla Productions has been working for the past six years to change this with the Battle of the Bands planned for Sunday at Alley Katz.
These music battles occur in 75 different cities all over the country, but Gorilla Productions has only been involved in Richmond for a few years.
First-run movie theater to open
City dwellers will not have to drive out to Short Pump or Midlothian to see the new Jonas Brothers’ movie Friday, or “Confessions of a Shopaholic,” or even the new “Madea goes to jail,” film. They will not even have to leave the city limits because for the first time in nearly four decades, Richmond is set to welcome a first-run Cineplex theater.
Faculty finesse
“The Big Knife” premieres this Thursday at the Shafer Street Playhouse’s Newdick Theatre. Unlike the soulful but thrifty student-directed plays put on by the Shafer Alliance Laboratory Theatre, this play marks the second time a faculty member has taken the director’s chair at the theatre.
Pursuing passion through printing
Sean Kuhnke trashed the bathroom located in the basement of his parents’ house back in high school. This was not a result of Kuhnke’s hard-partying ways; it was where he started making screen printed T-shirts-a passion he still pursues today as a senior graphic design major.