I am a Red Sox fan. (Yankees fans, feel free to continue reading. I won't make any slights after this one: In 2004, your team blew a 3-0 series ALCS lead on Boston, who has won a World Series title more recently than New York.) Whenever I tell people I am a Red Sox fan, they immediately ask why.
As the last month of the season gets underway, the Virginia men's club ice hockey team has four games left to play before the Atlantic Coast Collegiate Hockey League Tournament takes place later in February.
Last night at the Aquatic and Fitness Center, the Virginia women's swimming and diving team downed the Richmond Spiders 123-110. With the victory, the Cavaliers improve to 6-3 this season.
The Virginia Cavaliers (13-6, 5-2 ACC) and the Duke Blue Devils (18-3, 5-2 ACC) face off tonight at 9 p.m.
Location: ACC Operation Basketball event in Greensboro, N.C. Date: October 31, 2004. Specific location: the men's bathroom. Several years ago, in the middle of a wandering day of interviews with ACC players and coaches at ACC Operation Basketball, I took a little break.
The caption for the photo accompanying the Jan. 30 article "Yahner adjusting to new team" said the photo depicted women's tennis player Maggie Yahner.
The women of the Virginia swim and dive team will take on Richmond tonight in a mid-week dual meet at the Aquatic & Fitness Center. Tonight's competition will be the Spiders' last regular-season meet before heading to Buffalo, N.Y.
Intensity, hard work and desire are three qualities sophomore Rocco Caponi brings to the mat. However, leadership may be the most valuable asset he provides for the Virginia wrestling team. "He's been the only guy on the team that has been as vocal as we want them to be," Virginia coach Steve Garland said.
Sophomore Lyndra Littles knew this off-season that Virginia's success would depend on her ability to improve her game after a promising freshman season. While most college students were enjoying summer break, Littles was in the gym working on conditioning and improving her shaky free throw numbers. Her role on the team would become even bigger when Virginia's top recruit, junior college transfer Aisha Mohammed, was declared out for the season after tearing her ACL weeks prior to the season opener against Rhode Island. "We have to help each other out," Littles said. Littles had to rise to the challenge, and she did so in a big way. The results are undeniable.
Although it is early in the track and field season, Virginia's track and field team is already racking up several accomplishments. At the first meet, held Jan.
New faces make up the majority of the women's tennis team this season. Among those new faces is the face of Maggie Yahner, a sophomore who is not only new to the team, but also new to Virginia as a transfer from Vanderbilt University. She faces the challenge of adapting to an entirely new school and new training and practice programs.
The Virginia men's basketball team has won four straight games. Two victories came against nationally ranked Maryland and Clemson.
I can't get the thought out of my head. Gilbert Arenas tearing it up against the Blue Devils as a helpless Mike Krzyzewski pleads/whines to officials for more fouls to be called. While this dream has zippy chance of being fulfilled, Arenas' selection as a starter for the Eastern Conference All-Star team last week solidified what is becoming quite the special season for the budding superstar and my Washington Wizards. Ever since this past summer, when Arenas was left off the Team USA roster, the 6-foot-4, 210-pound point guard has been on a tear and has directed much of his motivation towards the coaches of the U.S.
The Virginia women's basketball team entered this week with aspirations of cementing their place in the ACC. Unfortunately, after four straight losses, that place may be in the cellar. The Seminoles added to the Cavalier misery Sunday afternoon as Florida State handed Virginia a demoralizing 63-47 loss to move the Cavaliers to 12-9, 2-5 in the ACC. The game followed a familiar script: For the third straight game, Virginia led at the half -- this time despite an awful shooting performance during the first 20 minutes.
Virginia beat Virginia Tech yesterday afternoon in Richmond 25-9. The match was a part of the "Rumble on the River" tournament.
CLEMSON, S.C. -- Down by 14 points with five minutes remaining in Sunday afternoon's game at Clemson, the situation looked dire for Virginia.
Jackie Apple is out of her element. Sitting poolside at the AFC, the 5-foot, 4-inch sophomore looks slightly uncomfortable being so ... upright.
This weekend the Cavaliers continued their great start to the season, taking down No. 13 Notre Dame 6-1 Friday and then capping the weekend by upsetting No.
The Virginia women's basketball team will escape the cold weather this weekend in Charlottesville as they travel south to take on a red hot Florida State Seminole team Sunday afternoon. The Cavaliers have now played 19 games this year but still lack that signature win to impress the NCAA committee. Their victory against No.
Following last weekend's intense Atlantic Coast Conference match-ups, the Virginia men's and women's swimming and diveing team will face the Big East's Pittsburgh Panthers Sunday afternoon. For the past 20 to 30 years, the Panthers have been the number one or two team in the Big East, and historically, Pittsburgh has been ranked among the top 25 nationally.
