ROANOKE TIMES 

                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, April 3, 1994                   TAG: 9404030189
SECTION: SPORTS                    PAGE: C-4   EDITION: METRO 
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STAPLES ON TV TODAY

Curtis Staples from Roanoke will join fellow University of Virginia basketball recruit Norman Nolan on the East team in the McDonald's All-America Game, to be televised by WDBJ (Channel 7) at 12:30 p.m. today from St. John's University in New York.

Staples, a 6-foot-2 guard, spent his senior year in Grayson County at Oak Hill Academy, ranked No. 1 in the country. Staples helped Patrick Henry High School win the Group AAA state championship in 1992.

Staples, Nolan and a third UVa signee, 7-3 Chase Metheney from Charlotte, N.C., will play in the Capital Classic at 8 p.m. Thursday at Cole Field House in College Park, Md. 


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