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.
The Virginia baseball team looks to continue its record of excellence as it heads into the 2008 season.
Having already knocked off defending conference champion? North Carolina during the dual-meet season, the No.
A collegiate wrestling dual-match lasts seven minutes and is broken down into an opening three-minute period followed by two two-minute periods.
Did you see Dwight Howard's Superman dunk Saturday? How about Gerald Green blowing out the candle on a cupcake above the rim while throwing down an alley-oop?
You know Chris Long and Sean Singletary. And maybe even Somdev Devvarman. They are Virginia's elite.
After watching junior forward Laurynas Mikalauskas nurse an injured shoulder for most of the season, Cavalier fans might not have known what to expect upon his return to the hardwood. Mikalauskas' first game back, however, was not just any game for Virginia.
For the second consecutive weekend, the Virginia women
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When your team is 1-9 in the ACC, and is about as likely to make the NCAA Tournament as Ryan Pettinella is to make a free throw, you have to find new incentives to root for the team. In the case of Sunday
