It's pretty safe to say the Virginia women's volleyball team is on a roll. The Cavaliers (17-7, 7-5 ACC) are in a three-way tie for third place in the conference, and they hold both the ACC's second longest current win streak and the best home record (10-1) in the ACC.
It hasn't always been this way. Maryland hasn't always been an elite level football team able to beat Florida State and make annual plans to spend early January in Florida. Prior to the 2001 season, the Terrapins were perennial ACC doormats, located just above Duke in the conference hierarchy.
With an entire week of rest in between games, the Cavaliers talked at practice earlier this week about how much they wanted back on the field.
University of Maryland coach Ralph Friedgen is well-known for his reputation as an offensive genius.
As exposed numerous times in the world of sports, the postseason is a completely different ballgame than everything that comes before.
Al Groh has said all season long that he wants his Cavaliers to still be in the hunt on Nov. 1. Now, after a pair of upsets last weekend in College Park and Chapel Hill, the 'Hoos again control their own destiny for an ACC championship and automatic BCS bid.
By many measures of success, the opportunity to play a kid's game professionally would satisfy most people -- let alone football players.
At Virginia, it sometimes seems as if being miserable is a badge of honor. Respect is gained in the wee hours at Clemons -- war waged over who can outdo who in total assignments and impending tests.
Highly-touted Virginia guard Sean Singletary came in second place in the Atlantic Coast Conference's Preseason Rookie of the Year voting.
The Atlantic Coast Conference named Virginia swimmers Luke Anderson and Katy Bland as the ACC Swimming and Diving Performers of the Week yesterday. Anderson, a senior who won five races in Virginia's meet last week, helped lead the No.
Following its second most successful regular season since ACC play began in 1987, No. 2 seeded Virginia begins its conference tournament at noon today against seventh seeded Virginia Tech (11-7, 4-5 ACC). This season has, thus far, been one of pleasant surprises for the Cavaliers.
Maryland's special teams have played extraordinarily this season and between their starting kicker and punter, the Terrapins start two of the best special teams players in the country.
In past years, Virginia's annual golfing trip to Hawaii was a time for the team to relax, bond and enjoy the beach-lined greens on the island's North Shore.
With a 2004 recruiting class that has catapulted the Cavaliers to the No. 2 national ranking and a stellar 14-3 record -- last weekend's upset at the hands at Virginia Tech aside -- it can be hard for any individual freshman to stand out.
The Virginia women's soccer team collected several honors when the ACC announced its conference awards Monday.
After every cursed collapse, wretched setback and poor managerial decision, and after every time that I almost lost faith, my brother would remind me how much sweeter victory would taste having been through those trying times. He was right.
Not all of the blowouts this fall are happening on the football field. The women's rugby team is turning in some dominating results of its own, most recently in a 60-10 home win over Tennessee on Saturday. Performances like that have been typical of the No.
Six ACC teams earned places in top 20 -- three in the top four -- of the USA Today/ESPN preseason Coaches' Poll. Wake Forest sits atop the list at No.
The debacle in Tallahassee three weekends ago in which the No. 12 Cavaliers (6-1, 3-1 ACC) fell 36-3 to the Seminoles was more than a confidence destroyer and reality check.
The Cavaliers held the nation's top-scoring field hockey team to three goals below their average, but were unable to turn their defensive success into a win Saturday.
