• Hometown Sports Extra

  • By: WDBJ7
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Hometown Sports Extra

By: WDBJ7
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  • Summary

  • Hometown Sports Extra is an examination of the importance of sports to our hometowns through the people who help us love them.
    2022
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  • Hometown Sports Extra: The man who shocked the world

    Hometown Sports Extra: The man who shocked the world
    Aug 14 2024
    Before winning gold in the men’s 1500 at the Paris Olympics, Cole Hocker spent a year training in one of our hometowns. Hear from Virginia Tech track and field coach Ben Thomas about his connection to Hocker, and why he was honing his world-class skills in Blacksburg. File in the folder in your newstore - Cole Hocker Podcast Thank you for your help!
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    13 mins
  • Hometown Sports Extra- Becoming and Olympian

    Hometown Sports Extra- Becoming and Olympian
    Jul 17 2024
    There may not be a greater honor in athletics than having the chance to represent your country in the Olympics. For one former Wahoo who now calls Blacksburg home, she gets to do exactly that in Paris this year after setting the women's national record in pole vault.
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    18 mins
  • Hometown Sports Extra - A Viking through and through: Northside’s Bill Pope and his basketball journey

    Hometown Sports Extra - A Viking through and through: Northside’s Bill Pope and his basketball journey
    Jun 12 2024

    Bill Pope has been the head coach of the Northside boys basketball varsity team for almost 4 decades. WDBJ7 did a feature on Pope a few weeks before he won his third state championship, but only a fraction of the interview made it on-air. Now, you can listen to the full interview where we talked about everything from his earliest memories of playing basketball to the major milestone moments of his coaching career thus far.
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    47 mins

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