DURHAM, N.C. -- Virginia men's basketball coach Pete Gillen sat in the team bus Sunday night, his blank stare blaring out the window.
High school football star Lamont Robinson, one of Virginia's top recruits for next season, announced last week that he would sign with Oklahoma after initially committing to Virginia in June, the Richmond-Times Dispatch reported. Robinson, a 6-foot-2-inch, 225-pound linebacker from Salem High in New Jersey, was slated to play inside linebacker in Virginia's 3-4 defensive scheme, but he will now don a Sooner uniform for the perennial top 10 Okalahoma program. Robinson's high school football coach told the Times-Dispatch that Virginia was the "right fit" for the senior, but the recent top five finishes for the Sooners proved to make the difference in Robinson's decision.
Virginia tight end Heath Miller and outside linebacker Darryl Blackstock, both three-year starters, announced they would forego their senior seasons of eligibility and enter the 2005 NFL Draft.
The No. 10 Virginia men's tennis team rounded up play at the prestigious National Collegiate Tennis Classic in Palm Springs, Calif.
Although the Cavaliers pulled down a season-high 45 rebounds and had 15 more than their opponent, it wasn't Virginia's ability to hit the boards that most impressed Virginia coach Debbie Ryan. "I really feel like we're a pretty good rebounding team and we proved that [against Duke] Friday night," Ryan said.
The No. 10 Cavalier men (7-0) and No. 15 Cavalier women (8-0) both remain unbeaten after victories against Tennessee and Louisiana State University Saturday. The men recorded a 135-103 win over the No.
I'll admit I didn't see it coming. I don't think anyone did. The 11-point run during a 90 second span that fueled Virginia's win over Clemson on Saturday caught everyone off guard. And why would anyone expect a sudden offensive explosion?
The Virginia women's basketball team (4-3) hosts a red-hot Old Dominion squad (3-1) tonight at 7 p.m.
Virginia third baseman Ryan Zimmerman has been awarded the USA Baseball Richard W. Case Athlete of the Year Award.
In Virginia basketball lore, the name Ralph Sampson stands out prominently.On defense, the 7-foot-4 center served as the Director of Homeland Security for U-Hall, leading the Cavaliers in blocked shots in every one of his four years.
Junior tight end Heath Miller was named the winner of the 2004 John Mackey Award yesterday. The award, instituted in 2000, is given annually to the nation's best collegiate tight end.
It is the moment that students and alumni eagerly wait for before each home football game -
With the festival of lights underway and Christmas in a little over two weeks, everyone seems to be preparing their holiday wish list.
Coming off a heartbreaking 81-79 loss to Iowa State Monday, an exhausted Virginia team took on Furman University last night in Charlottesville.
For some teams, a loss is a splash of ice water to the face. For others, it's the rock that lets the boulders loose in a landslide.
The doctors told him he would have to sit out for a year. Two broken vertebrae, after all, are not something to mess around with.
Every columnist seems to have an occasional awards column in which they weigh in with their opinion on the best and worst of whatever subject they choose. Because nobody at The Cavalier Daily seems willing to put in the effort to stop me, I will now launch into my own awards column.
For any basketball team, having an outside shooter provides a resource that can ignite offensive runs, silence opponents or get a crowd on their feet faster than almost anything else.
Every team needs a dynamic, do-whatever-it-takes player. For the Virginia men's basketball team, that player is Gary Forbes.
A total of eight Virginia football players were selected for the three All-ACC teams yesterday. The five Cavaliers picked to start on the first team are the most of any school in the conference. Senior tailback Alvin Pearman compiled 1,844 all-purpose yards this season as a running back, as a receiver and on special teams en route to an All-ACC first team selection at running back.
