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Alright Hokie Nation! The first home game of the season is this Saturday, Sept. 12, at 1:30 p.m. That means it is our first tailgate of the season and to help you get ready for your tailgate our sponsor GobblerGear.com is having a big sale on Saturday at their Salem location!

They will be open from 7 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Selected T-Shirts will be marked down to $5 (yep, you read that right – 5 bucks!!); 10% off Champion shorts; AND 25% off selected Hokie tye dyes! Get your tailgating season off to a good start with a trip to GobblerGear.com’s Salem location at 603 College Ave.

Go Hokies!

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Are you like me? You’re so anxious and excited about the Sept. 5 season opener again Alabama that you can’t sleep well at night? Though I haven’t tested the theory, I’m pretty sure if you cut me, I’d bleed Burnt Orange and Chicago Maroon. Yeah, I’m that much of a Virginia Tech Hokies football fan. I’ll be at every home game again this season with 66,000 of my closest friends. I’d love to see you there at the game and now, thanks to our partners at HokieJerseys.com, you have a chance to win free Virginia Tech Hokies football jerseys in time for the 2009 season!

Go to the HokieJerseys.com sweepstakes Web page and sign up to be eligible for the following prizes:

• 1st Prize: One replica home jersey, one replica away jersey, AND one jersey tee
• 2nd Prize: One replica away jersey
• 3rd Prize: One jersey tee

Good luck and GO HOKIES!

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Our proud sponsor here at VTHokieFans.com, GobblerGear.com, opened its first brick and mortar store on Saturday, Aug. 1! This weekend, Virginia residents will enjoy the “Virgina Sales Tax Holiday,” which means you can buy certain items with no state sales tax!

That means that selected items are tax exempt this weekend at GobblerGear.com’s new store in Salem! Kids are going back to school in a few weeks, so get selected Virginia Tech Hokies gear for school tax free! Visit Gobbler Gear at 603 College Avenue, Salem, Virginia 24153.

Need more info? Give them a call at 540-387-0434, and tell them VTHokieFans.com sent you!

See more pictures of Gobbler Gear’s new store!

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VTHokieFans.com is pleased to announce an exciting new partnership with HokieJerseys.com. HokieJerseys.com offers top-of-the-line Virginia Tech Hokies football jerseys, both home and away, for men, women and children. And best of all, every purchase benefits the Virginia Tech Relay for Life! The guys at HokieJerseys recently donated a No. 28 road jersey as a give away at the Roanoke Valley Hokie Alumni Chapter’s annual golf tournament scheduled for Aug. 7. Check ‘em out!

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The Roanoke Valley Chapter of the Virginia Tech Alumni Association is hosting its 21st annual golf tournament on Friday, Aug. 7, and Virginia Tech football hall-of-famer and current Hokie color analyst Mike Burnop is the featured speaker.

For $85, you get 18 holes of golf at beautiful Hanging Rock Golf Club in Salem, Va., a golf cart, a cookout dinner following golf with guest speaker Mike Burnop, beverages during your round of golf, and chances to win great door prizes and if your golf game is good enough, more prizes!

VTHokieFans.com will be there along with sponsor GobblerGear.com, which has also signed on to sponsor the golf tournament. For more information, check out the brand spanking new Web site for the Roanoke Hokies Alumni Chapter (www.roanokehokies.com).

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Okay Hokie fans, it’s time for a deep breath as we head into summer. Football season is more than three months away (yay!) but we’ve managed to keep ourselves occupied this off season with national signing day, spring practice and the NFL draft. We’ve also had quite a few verbal commitments for the 2010 recruiting class. Safe to say that Virginia Tech football is now in cruise control. So, what do we do until fall practice (which actually takes place in the dead of summer)? One word … GOLF!

I don’t know about you guys, but I like to get away from the hustle and bustle of life and if you like to golf, I strongly recommend Myrtle Beach golf vacations! Myrtle Beach is the golfing capital of the east coast! Every summer since 2003 I have made an annual pilgrimage to this golfing mecca and each summer I drool over the seemingly endless choices of golf course on which to play. And when I say “play” I mean “tear up.” I may not be very good at golf, but I’ve pretty much perfected the sand wedge and I can blast a golf ball out of six inches of rough like no one else on the PGA tour.

The great thing about having so many golf courses from which to choose is that the green fees are very competitive! And there are plenty of deals, discounts and packages out there from which to choose – all you have to do is Google (officially a verb) Myrtle Beach golf package and you’ll see an endless stream of options! So, instead of sitting around your house all summer with the air conditioning on full blast and watching your old worn out VHS tape of the No. 4 ranked Virginia Tech Hokies’ 62-0 beatdown of the trash-talking No. 16 ranked Syracuse Orangemen (at the time they were the Orangemen, not the Orange … that’s stupid) – get off your butt, get online and look for golf packages in Myrtle Beach, book it and go get your golf on!

Oh, and don’t forget the GPS locator so you don’t get lost in the woods looking for ball! Lastly, I can’t think of golf without thinking of the best golf movie of all time, Caddyshack and the best golfer of all time, Tigerwoods… enjoy!

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