I am a language guy. Not every writer is -- the bestseller lists are rife with happy souls free to employ whatever word occurs. But I stand with Flaubert, for whom the synonym was mythic as the ...

Barry Word, who has emerged this week as the voice of Wahoos past, paused for a moment when he learned the identity of Virginia’s new football coach, Bronco Mendenhall.

Sometimes, if you're a lover of literary fiction, you read something that speaks to you so personally and at the same time is so beautifully illuminating of the human condition that you feel uplifted.

As a former ACC player of the year who spent seven seasons in the National Football League, Barry Word has some credibility when he speaks about the football program at his alma mater. Word played at ...