Breaking News: Woodgrove Principal Gauriloff Steps Down, Former Broad Run Principal Markley to Finish School Year at Purcellville School

(Dec. 19, 2011) - The Loudoun Times-Mirror is reporting that Woodgrove High School principal Ric Gauriloff has stepped down and that as of today, former Broad Run High School principal Edgar Markley will finish the school year as the interim principal for the Purcellville school which opened a year ago under Gauriloff's guidance. Developing story at LTM website.

Basketball: VivaLoudoun/Loudoun Times-Mirror Top 5 Hoops Poll

Well most teams have gone 12 days with just one game! Thus the poll has been in hibernation but lets get this baby out before Mother Nature spews more wintery woe our way.

Feb. 4, 2010 Poll:

Boys Top 5
1. Broad Run (17-1)
If Broad Run coach John Costello had an assistant coach named Abbott ... then headline writers everywhere would be happy
2. Potomac Falls (15-2)
Ranking a Jeff Hawes team No. 2 is a bit like tugging on Superman's cape
3. Stone Bridge (12-5)
Stone Bridge senior Sam Tripp is a shot blocker by night ... and by day, of course, he's a Daytripper
4. Loudoun Valley (8-8)
The Vikes lose and move up ... the VivaLoudoun fox sent LTM sports editor Carl Lukat's coffee out for testing and it came back mostly Sumatra blend with traces of newspaper ink
5. Briar Woods (7-9), Loudoun County (9-9) and Park View (10-8)
The Skinny: No we didn't use a dart board but Briar Woods is playing well and split with County this year and County just beat Park View which was No. 4 and earlier this year Valley beat Park View and County ... oh heck, Carl, pass your coffee over here!

Girls Top 5
1. Loudoun County (15-2)
The Skinny: Raider coach Kevin Reed rewrote Dale Carnegie's book into "How to Win Games and Influence Officials" ... we hope he doesn't throw the book at us for that joke
2. Freedom (13-4)
The Skinny: We love the Eagles because they have a AAA-caliber schedule and NBA-caliber stat crew!
3. Loudoun Valley (11-5)
The Skinny: Is it just us or is there a great athlete named Oden at Valley just about every year. You could say we are Chrystal-clear on that fact
4. Stone Bridge (11-6)
The Skinny: When you go to a Bulldog girls game there is usually Prince working the snackbar, a Prince in the broadcast booth and two Prince's on the court - talk about your principalities
5. Broad Run (9-7) and Potomac Falls (10-5)
The Skinny: We would ask BR coach Mike O'Hara to change his name to O'Hare so we could joke about his team flying under the radar but man that is way too much work. You could say that even before Facebook and Twitter that PF coach Lynn Ewald was living ... in a "Ewald" ... but honestly, we wouldn't advise saying it

What do you think? Got a Better Pun than Us? Post a comment below! First person to post a comment will receive the keys to VivaLoudoun.com Township ... if we had a township!