Augusta County Commonwealth’s Attorney Tim Martin, in the matter of the Dec. 17 officer-involved shooting of Dustin Griffin, is acting more like a defense and civil attorney for the Augusta County Sheriff’s Office than he is presenting as an elected prosecutor representing the people of Augusta County.

Fair or not, we can’t take the Augusta County criminal-justice apparatus at its word that there’s no there there with respect to the shooting of Dustin Griffin, 42, by two sheriff’s deputies on the night of Dec. 17.

In this podcast, I go over where we are with the investigation, which is still ongoing, even as the Commonwealth’s Attorney, Tim Martin, has already decided to exonerate the deputies who shot and killed Griffin as they attempted to serve an arrest warrant at a location west of Staunton.

AFP coverage of the Dustin Griffin shooting

UVA Basketball dominated from the jump in a 76-61 win at NC State that wasn’t that close.

We dive into the game, and coach Ryan Odom’s technical foul – with detailed analysis on how the ‘Hoos did at Odom Ball.

Then we spend some time breaking down the first couple of days of moves on the UVA Football transfer portal.

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Solid email this morning from Alan, regular reader, on the Tech-UVA game, the kind of good that got me to think through what we know, to this point, in Year 1 of Ryan Odom, about our new-look UVA Basketball program.

The key points from Alan:

Shocker, right, that I got emails from a trove of White guys who think a young Black man named J’Mari Taylor should consider it a privilege to entertain them.

How dare the kid prioritize his future earning potential when our favorite college football team needed him out there to win an exhibition game.

That, you know, they won anyway, without him.

Two years after graduating from Waynesboro High School, Reggie Harris was taken by the Oakland A’s in the 1989 Rule 5 draft, and he made the team – the defending World Series champs – out of spring training in 1990.

“I’m just watching the previous World Series that year, in ’89, the earthquake series with San Francisco, and two weeks later, I’m on that team,” said Harris, who joined me to talk about his baseball career on the “Street Knowledge” podcast this week.

We’ve been going practically non-stop since August, but now, we’ve hit a lull – UVA Football and UVA Basketball are both on an exam break, with no games for a week.

What do we talk about?

We’ll think of something.

Andrew Hypes has spent the last two years travelling all over the world: Paris, London Romania, Vegas, Poland and California, to name a few.

After growing up in Waynesboro, Virginia, population 23K, it’s a little surreal: working in Dr. Dre’s studio, flying on private planes, standing in front of the Eiffel Tower – the real one, not the one at Kings Dominion – all stemming from his role as the official DJ for Justin Timberlake’s recently wrapped “The Forget Tomorrow World Tour.”

NASCAR settled the suit brought by two racing teams alleging violations of federal antitrust laws on Thursday.

The details of the settlement are only trickling out, but we have enough to begin to get a sense of how things are going to play out going forward.

AFP contributor Rod Mullins joins the show to break down what we know.

It’s UVA-Virginia Tech football week, so I got the gang together to preview the game, and we do, eventually.

But first: why are tickets so ridiculously expensive?

Scott German joins me to rain down furious anger on the folks at UVA Athletics, who seem intent on money-grabbing us out of a big crowd for the Saturday primetime game.

Then we direct some upset at the medical staff, for allowing Kam Robinson to return to the Duke game and tear his ACL.

Dumb, just dumb stuff.

I promise that we break down the game at the end.