So we got embarrassed, again. And we lost to UNC by more than 23 points, again. Then we failed to cover the spread against the Tar Heels, again.
There are few moments more exciting at the beginning of a season than a defending champion taking the field in hopes of a repeat title run. The Virginia women's lacrosse team will give a preview of that scenario this weekend when it participates in the Charles Street Challenge in Baltimore.
There is no restart button in life. The Virginia softball squad cannot go back in time and redo last weekend's Triangle Classic in Chapel Hill, N.C.
The Virginia women's basketball team will need a strong finish to the season to reach the 20-win plateau for the first time since its 1999-2000 campaign.
After months of early morning workouts, endless practices, and three unofficial scrimmages, the Virginia men's lacrosse team finally will take the field for its season-opening tilt against Drexel Sunday at 1 p.m.
Fine, I'll admit it. Baseball matters. It took a spring and summer of live games at Davenport field last year, as well as a miraculous comeback in October by the Red Sox, but I'm now convinced that baseball does matter. I'm certainly the most reluctant of baseball converts, largely because of my frustrating childhood exposure to "America's game." Like most boys' parents in eastern North Carolina, my parents signed me up for tee-ball as a child.
A late-game surge by Old Dominion gave the Monarchs the upset win over the Cavaliers yesterday. After leading 6-2 in the bottom of the sixth inning, the Cavaliers allowed the Monarchs to come sweeping back in the sixth and seventh innings and eventually take the game 7-6.
By Jeremy Root Cavalier Daily Gameday Editor CHAPEL HILL, NC -- The rafters are Tar Heel blue, the seats are blue, and grown men are all wearing blue dress shirts.
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- Whenever the North Carolina starters know that they have another win underneath their belt, quick glances and slim grins abound at breaks in the court action.
It is probably one of the biggest locker-room clichés in all of sports -- players looking within and figuring out how to win. It may be a cliché, but it worked last week for the Virginia women's basketball team.
For the Virginia men's tennis team, it is time to earn their top-10 ranking. The team is in Chicago today to participate in the prestigious USTA/ITA National Team Indoor Championships.
The final 2004 UTSA Boys Under-18 national rankings have come in -- and atop the list at No. 1 is Virginia freshman Treat Huey. Former top-ranked junior players in the USTA Boys Under-18 division include tennis superpowers Andy Roddick in 1999 and James Blake in 1997. Huey has had an important role on the men's tennis team so far this season, posting a 12-6 overall record in singles and an 11-3 record in doubles. Last month, Huey and fellow freshman Somdev Devvarman won the doubles title at the National Collegiate Tennis Classic in Palm Springs, Calif. Currently No.
At a recent winter conference meeting in Florida, Atlantic Coast Conference faculty representatives unanimously approved a plan proposed by the league's athletic directors to try instant replay for the 2005 football season. Instant replay has been a staple in the NFL since 1999 and was introduced to college football last year on a similar experimental basis in the Big Ten.
Pete Gillen's annual "Save My Job" campaign hits a critical fork in the road tonight when his Cavaliers, riding a three-game winning streak to the outside fringes of the NCAA bubble, travel to Chapel Hill to face the No.
The recipe for success for any college sports team calls for one ingredient: a love of the game -- Or, in this case, the race. If any team at the University knows about loving its sport, it is the men's rowing team.
What a difference a year makes. Entering last season, the Virginia baseball team was mired in mediocrity.
In sports, experience is everything. It is the factor that overcomes the jitters and fears of big-stage performance.
The recent success the men's basketball team has experienced against the soft under-belly of the ACC earned freshman Sean Singletary the conference's Rookie of the Week honor for the fourth time this season. The Philadelphia native scored 19 points and added 12 rebounds while maintaining an impressive assist-to-turnover ratio of 9-to-1 in the Cavaliers' two home victories over Florida State and rival Virginia Tech. Singletary's best performance of the week came against the Hokies as he compiled 10 points, seven rebounds, seven assists and three steals in one of his most dynamic performances of the season after struggling since the beginning of conference play. This Saturday, the 6-foot point guard will have a tough assignment when Maryland point guard, John Gilchrist, comes to U-Hall.
Virginia pitcher Mike Ballard's surgically-prepared left arm passed its first test with flying colors and helped the third-year pitcher receive the ACC's Pitcher of the Week award. In his first pitching appearance since the 2003 season, the Virginia Beach native led the Cavaliers to a 2-0 victory at UNC Wilmington on Feb.
The Virginia men's basketball team (13-9, 4-7 ACC) has been following a script of late that may seem very familiar to Cavalier hoops fans.
