Daily Progress sports specialist -- Charlottesville, Va.

Even with more of a desk background, it never hurts to apply.

The writer that left the U-T came to Charlottesville to fill our UVa men's basketball beat. He was full-time in San Diego, but covering the ACC was a big draw for him.

 

Jerry Miller is good people. We've ran into each other a few times when I had been dispatched to cover preps. Any clue as to where his next stop is?

 

ACC basketball was a draw for that writer, and the fact that Charlottesville goes everywhere with the Cavs was another. They really hammer UVa coverage, as you'd expect for the hometown paper. They were the only ones to go to Puerto Rico for the San Juan Shootout last year.

Good people at this paper. Great town, which has a Chipotle, which is enough of a selling point for me. [/bitter_that_my_town_has_no_good_burrito_place]

 

Miller is leaving the newspaper business to focus on his daily local radio show and launch his own web site covering Central Virginia sports.

We do follow Virginia basketball and football everywhere and take our UVa coverage seriously. We send four staffers to home football games, which is how I got a chance to chip in while I had this position last season.

And the Chipotle in town is solid. It's a recent addition and they gave away free burritos when the story opened last September. But what was even better was when they let you score a free burrito last Halloween if you dressed up as a burrito. After covering myself in a few feet of aluminum foil, I was enjoying a delicious lunch.

 

McLovin,

How many people on the sports staff?

 

That's it. I'm making the hour commute if this promotion is going again. Though the drive up 29 might be tough unless I cut eyeholes in the foil.

 

Maybe if you wrap your car in tinfoil, they'll give you some to go!

 

Burritos for all my people!!!

 

Now you people are making me hungry. Damn you.

 

As a Daily Progress alum, I can tell you it is a good newspaper to work for. Jerry Ratcliffe is one of the best bosses I have ever had and I would run through a wall for the guy. The paper covers UVa extremely well and does a good job on preps as well. As previously mentioned, the money is not great, but this is a good job.

 

Sounds good ... but I dunno how my car will endure all that foil. Could I just be one of the Hanson Brothers ready with the foil?

Seriously ... I've heard nothing but good things about Charlottesville and Jerry Ratliffe, though I know next to nothing about either. The lure of the ACC drew a writer out of sunny San Diego. I can't say as I'm shocked.

 

You'll find better burritos on campus and downtown. Atomic Burrito, Baja Bean Company, Aqui es Mexico, Amigos, among others. And there's a Qdoba's in town too, which I contend is better than Chipotle's.