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.
The Virginia field hockey team lost a heartbreaking game to Maryland 4-3 in overtime Friday during the semifinals of the 2008 ACC Tournament.In their second overtime loss to the Terrapins this season,
The Virginia women?s soccer team fell to Virginia Tech in the semifinals of the ACC Tournament Friday night at the WakeMed Soccer Park.
The seniors of the men?s soccer team could not ask for a more formidable opponent for their last home game.
A sweet winning streak for the Virginia football team turned sour at the end of last Saturday?s game at Scott Stadium.
After a big win last weekend, Virginia?s top runners will be getting some well-deserved rest.
The ACC is finally starting to settle down. Clemson, last year?s conference champion, has stormed back to the top of the standings.
Expectations are through the roof as the Virginia wrestling team is set to start its season this weekend.?If we don?t have at least three All-Americans, I am going to be distraught,? coach Steve Garland said.This is how confident the Cavaliers are as they begin their season.
Selenski to Ragukas was the name of the game in Durham, N.C. yesterday as the Virginia field hockey team downed Duke 5-2 to advance to the semifinals of the ACC Tournament.
Some voters in the 2008 presidential election cast their ballots with the economy heavy on their minds.
In collegiate field hockey, conference opponents might face each other twice in regular and postseason play, but those teams rarely match up in back-to-back games, let alone twice in one week in the same city.
The Virginia men?s and women?s tennis teams are preparing to host the ITA National Intercollegiate Indoor Championships, which will begin today.
The Virginia men?s and women?s swimming and diving teams will travel outside the commonwealth this weekend to face SEC competitors.
The third-seeded Virginia women?s soccer team squeezed past sixth-seeded Wake Forest last night in a 3-2 double-overtime thriller in the first round of the ACC Tournament in Cary, N.C., after sophomore forward Sinead Farrelly clanged a shot off the post and in the net for the game-winning goal in the 104th minute.The Cavaliers dominated the game statistically, out-shooting the Demon Deacons 23-7 and out-cornering them 12-5.
The Virginia women?s soccer team hopes to take down Wake Forest tonight in its second matchup against the Demon Deacons this week.
The Virginia football team?s game against Miami marked the seventh in the development of the play between sophomore quarterback Marc Verica and his wide receivers.There have been many high points, including the 31-0 demolishing of Maryland Oct.
Some Tuesdays are just terrible. You know it when you feel it. Food doesn?t taste quite as good as it usually does.
?For when the One Great Scorer comes,To write against your name,He marks ? not that you won or lost ?But how you played the game.?? Grantland RiceNever in the history of sports has a writer so succinctly and poetically summed up the essence of sports on a higher plane than that of the playing field.
