As Virginia (12-5-5, 4-3-4 ACC) braces for No. 10 Connecticut this Friday at Klöckner Stadium, a berth in the NCAA Tournament’s College Cup on the line, a rejuvenated Scott Thomsen represents one of the Cavaliers’ best hopes for securing a trophy-raising end to 2013.
When No. 8 Wisconsin coach Bo Ryan steps on the court at John Paul Jones Arena Wednesday, he will be looking to best Virginia coach Tony Bennett for his 300th win with the Badgers. But over a decade ago, the two shared the court a different time, when Bennett coached on Ryan’s staff for his very first win.
Participant ribbons are farces, empty consolations to fill the void resulting from mediocre performance. That’s what the voice in my head has always told me, at least. In this last decade and a half — as an athlete, a student and a human being — the fear of the humiliation associated with those green ribbons has compelled me to constantly seek the blue ribbon of triumph. Blue means the applause of others; blue means validation.
Finals season is upon us, and there are just four weeks of the NFL regular season to go. That means it’s about time for that age-old tradition that football-fanatic college students like me participate in every year — trying so hard to concentrate on my studies, banging my head on my desk a couple of times, cursing my non-existent willpower, then heading back to ESPN.com to try to predict how the playoffs will turn out.
After defeating Maryland, the Virginia volleyball team locked arms and sang the Good Ol’ Song one last time Saturday night, wrapping up the 2013 season.
The No. 11 Virginia wrestling won two of three matches on Saturday at the Northeast Duals in Troy, N.Y.
Two hours after a first minute red card by Matt Brown, Virginia walked off the turf at Klöckner Stadium with a 3-1 victory that gave them a spot in the NCAA Tournament’s quarterfinal round.
The Cavaliers lost a pair of hard-fought games to No. 3 Tennessee and Kansas State to finish November on a three-game slide.
In the final opportunity of an otherwise wasted season, coach Mike London showed he was already thinking about next year when he decided to switch quarterbacks late.
The Virginia men’s basketball team cruised to an 83-63 win Saturday against Missouri State to win the Corpus Christi Challenge in Texas after narrowly defeating Southern Methodist in the semifinal.
The No. 1 and top-seeded Virginia women’s soccer team defeated Michigan Friday to earn a trip to the College Cup for the first time since 1991.
With a 16-6 loss to Virginia Tech in Charlottesville, Virginia has now dropped nine straight games to finish the season 2-10 and winless in ACC play for the first time since 1981.
Following a 75-53 drubbing of Liberty, the Virginia men’s basketball team will look to extend their winning streak to four games when they take on Hampton.
The Virginia swim and dive team broke seven school records and three conference records as the team competed at the Ohio State Invite on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. After leading heading into the final day of competition, the No.
John Paul Jones Arena had the atmosphere of a heavyweight prizefight Sunday when the No. 15 Virginia wrestling team took on No.
Across every sport at the University of Virginia, few achievements can match the feeling of beating the rivals from Blacksburg.
On a frigid evening in Charlottesville Sunday, the No. 1 Virginia women’s soccer team shut out Wake Forest, 2-0, in the NCAA Tournament’s third round after beating Georgetown 1-0 two days ago to advance.
The Virginia women’s basketball team had its three-game win streak halted Sunday evening at West Virginia, 68-58.
For the first time since winning the national championship in 2009, the Cavaliers advanced to the NCAA Tournament’s second weekend by quelling St. Johns, 2-0, on a sunny yet cold day in Charlottesville.
In cold and muddy conditions, the No. 10 Virginia women placed ninth and the 22nd-ranked men finished 13th in Terre Haute, Ind.
