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 ...

Franchising has and continues to be a great option for professional athletes. I asked Barry Word, a former NFL player who was with the Kansas City Chiefs from 1990 to 1992 to weigh in on this. He owns ...

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.

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.

As the youngest of three brothers from Halifax County who played football at Virginia between 1978-85, Barry Word quickly picked up the nickname, “the last Word.” ...