For most of this season, as depressing as the Virginia basketball team's performance has been, there was always a lively student section to cheer me up.
Virginia used great pitching, a strong performance from its freshmen and a little bit of luck to complete a four-game sweep of Lehigh (0-4). The No.
Fresh off its victory at the ITA National Indoor Championship, the No. 1 Virginia men's tennis team swept two Saturday matches against No.
Late in the second half Sunday afternoon, the Virginia women's basketball team found itself in a familiar position, looking poised to pull off an upset of one of the ACC's powerhouses.
The Virginia women's swim and dive team brought home the 2008 ACC Championship crown this past weekend, capturing their first title since 2004 and their sixth all-time. Virginia blew the competition out of the water, tallying 800 points in the course of the three-day meet.
Despite the excitement of a few extracurricular activities that honored both a great coach and a great player, the Virginia women's basketball team held off Clemson 83-71 at John Paul Jones Arena last night. Virginia (20-7, 8-3 ACC) celebrated coach Debbie Ryan's June induction into the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame with a video tribute at every media timeout while senior point guard Sharneé Zoll closed in on the ACC career assists record throughout the game.
The Virginia baseball team is set to open the 2008 season this weekend when it hosts Lehigh in a pair of doubleheaders Saturday and Sunday. The series was scheduled to start today but was postponed due to anticipated inclement weather. The series kicks off a very busy start to the season for the No.
Last season at Klöckner Stadium ended much like it started for the Virginia men's lacrosse team.
Coming off of three straight wins, the Virginia women's tennis team will face off against Old Dominion today and Tennessee Sunday.
The Virginia men's tennis team denied Ohio State University another national championship this past weekend by becoming the first ACC team to win the ITA National Team Indoor tournament.
As does any college sports program, the Virginia women's lacrosse team lost a few key players from last year's national championship runner-up squad.
Only one wrestling team, Maryland, remains undefeated in ACC play. Virginia hope to deal the No. 22 Terrapins their first loss to an ACC team this Sunday at 1 p.m.
The Virginia softball team enters the upcoming season looking to start fresh following a last-place finish in the ACC last year.
I got a Facebook message the other day telling me to add the official NCAA Tournament Bracket application in anticipation of the return of tourney pools next month.
As senior point guard Sharneé Zoll approaches an ACC record for career assists, the Virginia women's basketball team returns home tonight for a conference matchup with Clemson at 7. The Cavaliers (19-7, 7-3 ACC) enter the contest standing fourth place in the league after their 62-53 triumph at Virginia Tech Sunday afternoon. Meanwhile, the Tigers (10-15, 3-7 ACC) come to Charlottesville on a two-game losing skid after dropping games at North Carolina and against Duke at home, which Clemson lost by an average of 30.5 points. However, the game itself somewhat takes a backseat to Zoll, the team's captain.
Now that the tide has been reversed, the Virginia men's basketball team will attempt to start a new streak tonight -- a winning streak.
There is an athletic team at Virginia that has won two consecutive ACC Championships, played for last year's national championship and returns an All-American and National Rookie of the Year from last year's team.
It was April 9, 2006, and the then-No. 29 Virginia women's tennis team was taking on then-No. 6 Miami.
I am writing this in a T-shirt with the window open. If my "Forecastfox" add-on is right, you'll be reading this with mittens on, possibly while riding a snowmobile. So in the spirit of spring, and because I have the attention span of a gerbil in this weather, today is about bouncing around the sports world.
The Virginia women's golf team finished third as a team and placed four players in the top 15 at the 12-team Qdoba Invitational in Miami Lakes, Fla.
