After getting the weekend off while only part of the team competed at the Cavalier Open, the men?s and women?s cross country teams are well-rested and ready to race at the NCAA Regional Championships this weekend in Winston-Salem, N.C.
What boosts a team?s confidence more than winning a game? How about winning three games?Virginia (14-13, 6-9 ACC) is scheduled to play Maryland (6-21, 2-13 ACC) tomorrow and Boston College (7-19, 1-13 ACC) Saturday, both at 7 p.m.
The Virginia men?s soccer team slipped by Duke 4-2 in the first round of the ACC Tournament with two late goals last night in Cary, N.C.
As the Virginia field hockey team awaited the seeding announcement for the NCAA Field Hockey Tournament in the depths of John Paul Jones Arena last night, there was a sense of madness in the air ? November Madness.
The preseason basketball pundits ask again and again if the Virginia women?s basketball team ? which tips off its season Friday at 7 p.m.
It?s officially sweater weather. I?m trading in my shorts and sandals for slightly warmer wear.
There was a volleyball practice early this season, before any of the preseason tournaments, whose conclusion provided a small window into some of the characteristics that would come to define Virginia?s team this year.First there was coach Lee Maes pushing the players through five sets of a strenuous running drill.
The Virginia wrestling team will hit the ground running this weekend at the ACC-Big Ten Challenge, competing in its first set of dual meets this season.The Cavaliers started their season off on a high note last weekend at the Michigan State Open, where seven Virginia wrestlers placed.
The Virginia volleyball team finished a dual-match weekend cleanly when it spiked N.C.
When Curt Flood sued Major League Baseball for the right to be a free agent in 1970, he opened the floodgates ? unoriginal pun most definitely intended ? for what would grow into the most exciting offseason in all major sports: MLB?s ?Hot Stove,? the annual winter pursuit of free agents.
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Virginia coach Al Groh has long said if a true freshman is ready to help the team, he will play.There is no more evidence to support this assertion than on special teams.
The Cavalier wrestling team left it all on the mat at the Michigan State Open Sunday as seven of Virginia?s wrestlers placed.The open included more than 500 wrestlers from about 40 teams.
The No. 13 Virginia men?s swimming and diving team lost to No.
Featuring players from more than 30 colleges across the country, last weekend?s ITA National Indoor Championships marked the first time Virginia has hosted an event of national championship caliber.On the men?s side of the draw, the doubles team of sophomore Michael Shabaz and senior Dominic Inglot headlined the weekend for the Cavaliers at the Boyd Tinsley Courts at the Boar?s Head Sports Club.
Remember how in the movie ?Men in Black? Tommy Lee Jones used a little machine to erase people?s memories of certain events?
For the fifth straight game, the Virginia football team gave up a score on its opponent?s opening drive.In every one of these games before their contest at Wake Forest Saturday, the Cavaliers managed to recover to take a win or send the contest to overtime.
A favorite method of all sportswriters for hooking the reader into an article is to capture a particular moment or sequence of a game that is defining or epitomizes the game?s theme in some way.
As expected, Virginia dominated Shepherd in yesterday?s exhibition game 87-52.
Senior night is supposed to be a proper send-off for graduating athletes.
