It has been a rough season for Virginia. High hopes of another trip to go dancing were slowly demolished in the cruelest of fashions as the Cavs consistently lost to conference foes by the smallest of margins.
Last week Michael Salmonowicz wrote a letter to the editor begging an answer to the question why The Cavalier Daily's sports section ignores excellence and rewards mediocrity. Salmonowicz referred to the seemingly insufficient coverage of the women's basketball team in comparison to its male counterpart, which seems to be a valid question-- as of Monday night, Debbie Ryan's squad stood at 20-8 (8-4 ACC) while the men had tallied a mark of 13-12 (3-9 ACC). Each week in the winter season, the Sports section devotes its Gameday page to a men's basketball game.
With the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth, things seemed eerily familiar for Old Dominion.
With the ACC Tournament just around the corner, the Virginia women's basketball team finds itself in a must-win situation as it heads into the last two games of the season against Boston College and Georgia Tech. The Virginia women are 3-3 in their last six games.
It has been four years since the Virginia swimming and diving program swept the ACC Championship meets, capturing both the men's and women's titles in 2004.
After capturing the National Team Indoor title, the Virginia men's tennis team has maintained its intensity and flawless record.
Spring Break will be anything but restful for the Virginia men's basketball team -- the Cavaliers will play four ACC teams in nine days to finish the regular season. The Cavaliers (13-12, 3-9 ACC) enter the month of March with their first multi-game winning streak in conference play, two games, after a convincing 78-60 home win against N.C.
Coming off of a 14-6 season-opening victory in Blacksburg last Wednesday against rival Virginia Tech, the No.
The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported yesterday that sophomore defensive end Jeffrey Fitzgerald is no longer enrolled at the University because of an academic issue. Rumors have been swirling about Fitzgerald's future since The Daily Progress reported Jan.
The women playing rugby games at Mad Bowl Saturdays are the athletes of the women's club rugby team.
I am a second-semester fourth-year. I have exactly 40 days of classes left before college ends and the real world begins.
Last night, Ryan Curtis, Vermont head coach and Virginia men's lacrosse alumnus, squared off against his mentor, Virginia coach Dom Starsia.
With the Virginia women's swimming team nabbing the ACC title, the Virginia men have the opportunity Feb.
The Virginia women's tennis team appeared to be on the verge of pulling off a huge upset for their biggest win of the season Sunday afternoon at the Boyd Tinsley Courts at the Boar's Head Sports Club.
The Virginia track and field team gave a solid performance at the Virginia Tech Challenge, which ended Saturday.
Going up against No. 3 Virginia this evening, the Vermont men's lacrosse team will face off against a top nationally ranked team for the second time in just three days.
The Wednesday, Feb. 20 sports article, "Pereira makes most of final season" incorrectly stated in the jump headline that Virginia women's tennis senior Lindsey Pereira had 28 career wins.
For those of us fans who taste the thrill of victory and feel the agony of defeat along with Virginia's student-athletes, this weekend was a much-needed shot in the arm.
After a successful opening weekend against Lehigh, the Virginia baseball team (4-0) will play seven games in eight days, beginning with Coppin State Tuesday and Old Dominion Wednesday. Coppin State (0-0) expected to come to town with at least two games under its belt, but its scheduled contests with Hofstra were rained out.
Two wrestlers lithely crouch at opposite red and green ends of a rectangle in the center of the mat, their tense eyes as still as the breath of the crowd.
