Chelsea Shine received a perfect birthday present from her teammates: the basketball.

It appears Virginia Tech’s football team won’t have to make a trip to Cincinnati in 2012 as earlier planned. The two teams, who met in last season’s Orange Bowl, will face off instead at FedEx Field in Landover, Md., according to a written release.

Like the two men who interviewed before him, Brandon Streeter arrived at Liberty’s football operations last winter dressed to the nines in a suit and tie, eager to speak to Flames coach Danny Rocco for the position of offensive coordinator.

Growing up in Lynchburg, Heritage High graduate Brielle Spencer and her family made an annual trek to Chapel Hill, N.C., nearly every November to watch the University of North Carolina’s women’s soccer team play in the early rounds of the NCAA tournament.

Like the two men who interviewed before him, Brandon Streeter arrived at Liberty’s football operations last winter dressed to the nines in a suit and tie, eager to speak to Flames coach Danny Rocco for the position of offensive coordinator.

The Randolph College men’s basketball team is no longer a rookie learning the ropes of the Old Dominion Athletic Conference.

BLACKSBURG — A decision Ryan Williams made in the first quarter of No. 16 Virginia Tech’s first game turned out to be the best thing that could have happened for Jayron Hosley. It turned out to be a pretty good thing for the Hokies football team, too.

Tuesday, Big South Conference commissioner Kyle Kallander submitted a report to the NCAA FCS playoff committee on Liberty, the conference’s only potential playoff team.

22nd-ranked Clemson obliterated the Flames with a 79-39 win Tuesday, leaving Liberty to deal with the second worst home loss in LU’s Division I era.

The Tigers’ suffocating defensive pressure turned a normally team-oriented Liberty club into a bunch of one-on-one basketball players.

TAMPA - Tony Bennett pursed his lips, leaned back in his court-side seat and let out a big sigh.

It appears Virginia Tech’s football team won’t have to make a trip to Cincinnati in 2012 as earlier planned. The two teams, who met in last season’s Orange Bowl, will face off instead at FedEx Field in Landover, Md., according to a written release.

Lynchburg College finished 4-22 last season and won just two of its 16 games in the Old Dominion Athletic Conference under first-year head coach Hilliary Scott.