Liberty Christian Academy’s enrollment has more than doubled during the past four years, with 1,700 or more students expected this year.

News and notes from around the Big South Conference.

Football practice in July? Well, for one day at least. Liberty opens its fall training camp Thursday at Williams Stadium.

Some quick-hit news and notes from the Big South football media day at the Marriott Renaissance Suites, just as soon as I get those crazy kids from Vector Marketing to stop chanting “Ole! Ole! Ole! Ol-e! Oh-le! Oh-le!” …

Last year, the sports staff at the News & Advance dabbled a bit in the blog, using a wonderful template provided by the fine people at Wordpress. That was before the redesign of our Web site. With the site overhauled, we were able to move the blog to the N&A site, so you can read entries as you surf through the stories on our site. Seems much more user friendly, no?

Local and state officials are reviewing the safety ramifications of Liberty University’s planned vehicular tunnel in response to concerns from neighboring Central Virginia Community College.

Liberty University is starting work on a new road that will one day connect to the planned Crossroads Colonnade shopping center.

In the first year that Liberty University has ever closed enrollment early, its seminary school is projected to increase its student body by more than 50 percent.

Former Redskins greats Art Monk and Darrell Green are kicking off a statewide charity tour in anticipation of their induction into the NFL Hall of Fame later this summer.

For the second year in a row, the Flames football program received a preseason Top 25 nod in Lindy’s College Football Preview, as Liberty is ranked No. 19 in the 2008 edition of the magazine.

Steven Evans loves the rush of pitching in tight games, so he wasn’t exactly nervous Saturday when he was summoned from the Liberty bullpen in the seventh inning.

The last two Mays, Liberty’s pitching staff has staggered to the finish line. Arms were tired, the bullpen depleted. The Flames entered the postseason gauntlet—where a team could potentially play six games in four days—undermanned.