Call it an overstatement, call it over the top, but the parallels between the 2007-08 Virginia tennis team and the Super Bowl XLII runner-up New England Patriots are too apparent to pass up. Ranked No.
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The 2007 season was a banner year for Virginia football. The Cavs finish the regular season with a 9-3 record and earn a trip to the Gator Bowl; Chris Long wins the Ted Hendricks Defensive End of the Year Award; Al Groh is crowned ACC Coach of the Year. Of course, an NCAA-record five of those nine wins were by 2 points or less.
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The Virginia softball team will travel to Chestnut Hill, Mass. to take on Boston College this weekend in the final ACC series of the season.
If the No. 3 Virginia men's lacrosse team is to win the 2008 ACC Tournament, it will most likely have to defeat the only two teams it has lost to thus far this season -- No.
While many University students will spend this Saturday at the Foxfield Races, the men's golf team will be making a last effort to qualify for the NCAA Regional Tournament. The Cavaliers' chance at qualification will come at the only University-hosted golf tournament this season, the 21st annual Cavalier Classic. Freshman Will Collins said the team will have to win the classic in order to qualify for the NCAA Regional Tournament. "Right now, it is the biggest piece," Collins said.
The Virginia baseball team will leave the pleasant Charlottesville spring behind when it suits up for a series in Miami, Fla.
April 30, 2008
Going into a three-game series with Miami this weekend, the last thing the Virginia baseball team needed in its contest against William & Mary last night was yet another midweek clunker. In a matchup between two of the commonwealth's finest, however, it was the Tribe that took control from the beginning and emerged the victor in the end, staving off the Cavaliers 6-5. In the bottom of the eighth, trailing 6-4, Virginia mounted a comeback.
Improvement -- it has been the theme of the Virginia women's tennis team's season. "From the very beginning we definitely had room to improve," senior Lindsey Pereira said.
For two years, I have resisted the temptation to write a stream-of-consciousness sports column. While I surely haven't spared friends and family of my stream of consciousness while talking about sports, I have been pretty good about making sure my columns have a distinct central idea or argument, with minimal rambling or jumping from topic to topic. I just figured I'd warn you: That's not happening today.
It has been a season of milestones for the Virginia women's lacrosse team. In one game against Johns Hopkins, the program reached 400 wins, only the third to do so in the NCAA, and head coach Julie Myers won her 100th game in Charlottesville.
I've spent the past four years asking athletes and coaches what they've learned. The answers have ranged from the mind-numbingly boring to the incredibly fascinating.
The Virginia softball team will head back across the Mason-Dixon Line today to take on Towson in a doubleheader after losing two of three to Maryland this weekend. The Tigers (28-20, 9-5 CAA) enter the afternoon having lost two of their last three to Georgia State but having won six of their last eight.
With two outs and the bases loaded in the second inning, Virginia sophomore third basemen Tyler Cannon faced a full count.
Kevin Coale is the kind of player every team values -- one with an infectious attitude and dedication from day one of preseason practice.
Despite ending the first day of the 20th annual ACC Championship with a huge lead and maintaining a tie for first through the second day of competition, the Virginia women's golf team slipped during the third day to finish the tournament in second place, one stroke shy of Duke.
To some, lacrosse is a game of speed, agility and finesse. Others know it as a hard-fought and physical contest, much like football.
The No. 16 Virginia baseball team will come into its matchups against Georgetown tonight and William & Mary tomorrow with renewed confidence following an 11th-inning win against Wake Forest Sunday. Virginia (31-11, 13-8 ACC) won two of three against the Demon Deacons, this weekend, overcoming a tough 14-3 loss Saturday night to win 3-2 Sunday in 11 innings, restoring lost confidence. "After you lose a game like you did [Saturday] night, there's some confidence issues," Virginia coach Brian O'Connor said.
