By Jason Wise Cavalier Daily Senior Associate Editor The Cavalier football team will enter this season ranked No.18 in the nation and are already receiving a level of national attention that is quite different from last season.
The Virginia women's soccer team ended its preseason trip to Michigan with a 1-0-1 record for the weekend.
Beneath bright orange and blue flags advertising past successes of Virginia soccer teams, the 2003 men's squad began filling in the blank banner that will be their legacy Saturday night.
To all of those familiar faces: welcome back to Charlottesville. To the new ones: simply welcome.
Beginning in 2004, the Atlantic Coast Conference will be home to two new teams: the Miami Hurricanes and the Virginia Tech Hokies.
Last season Virginia's offense was one of the most exciting in the nation. With second half comeback victories and trick plays thrown into the mix, the Cavaliers were both unpredictable and exciting.
I will admit, I was worried. Landing a sports journalism job from June through July seemed like my ultimate irony.
Once the big man on campus, former Virginia basketball standout Roger Mason Jr. has taken his game to the next level with the NBA's Chicago Bulls.
Barbeques, mosquitoes, muggy summer nights mean more than just nine innings of the national pastime.
While the hot summer months represent the off season in the basketball world, there certainly isn't any time off for the Cavaliers.
Returning from the ACC football kickoff this weekend, I had the pleasure of being stopped for speeding just north of Charlotte, NC.
This was no ordinary tennis match. This was Anna Kournikova and all the spectacle and hoopla she brings with her.
LOWELL, Mass. -- Senior midfielder A.J. Shannon didn't get much time to let the championship soak in.
The future seemed as bright as ever for Chris Rotelli on Memorial Day afternoon in 1999. Still a few weeks away from his high school graduation, Rotelli was spending the holiday in College Park, Maryland watching the Virginia Cavaliers, the team he would be playing with for the next four years, win the national championship. "It was unbelievable," Rotelli said.
Eight is the most important number you need to know right now -- ESPN's preseason rank for the Virginia football program.
Charlottesville has always been more synonymous with the University, the arts, the Dave Matthews Band and Mr. Jefferson than with professional sports, but the success of this year's Boyd Tinsley $25,000 USTA Women's Pro Tennis Championships might start to change that.
There is a man, but you can barely see him. Hidden behind phonebook-sized folders, this man juggles more in a day than many do in a week.
The 2004 class for Virginia has bulked up to six with the additions of Kathleen Branagh and Meghan O'Leary.Branagh, a 5-foot-6 setter from Lafayette California, was named one of the top six villeyball players in the East Bay of Northern California.She has twice been selected for the USA Developmental Camp. O'Leary, a 6-foot middle from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is a two-time All-State performer as well as the 2002 Wendy's High School Heisman winner.
Virginia sophomore golfer Brad Tilley captured the Metropolitan Golf Association title by wining the MGA/Canon "IKE" Stroke Play Championship. Tilley, who was the only player who finished under par in the amateur tournament, won despite battling tendonitis in his left hand.
The strength of the Miami athletic program was one of the driving forces behind the controversial ACC expansion that sent shock waves through the college sports world.
