The nine current athletic directors in the ACC met in Greensboro, N.C. to discuss schedule plans in basketball and football for the 11-team conference when it expands in 2004.
The Virginia men's and women's cross country teams open their season tomorrow with the Lou Onesty Invitational.
The University of Virginia women's soccer team is in the middle of a crucial stretch in its season.
The men's golf team recently finished in fifth place at the Kiawah Island Intercollegiate Invitational with several strong showings by young Virginia athletes.
Gillian Hatch knows she doesn't have the physical capabilities of a great soccer player. She knows that her competition is almost always faster and stronger than her.
Virginia is coming off an appalling 31-7 loss to South Carolina last weekend, but the Western Michigan football team still faces a rigorous test this Saturday when the Cavaliers visit Waldo Stadium in Kalamazoo, Mich. This will be the first meeting between Virginia (1-1, 1-0 ACC) and WMU (1-1) squads and it is the Broncos' Centennial Game.
Klöckner Stadium will be home to the United States Women's Soccer National Team for a series of training sessions.
At the start of the season, one of the biggest games on the ACC schedule was the matchup between NC State and Ohio State.
After playing a pair of games on the road last weekend, the Cavaliers returned home to shutout non-conference foe Longwood, 5-0. Virginia got off to a slow start, allowing several penalty corners and leaving open holes in the defense. "In the first half, we came out sluggish and Longwood definitely capitalized on that," senior Katie Jo Gerfen said.
Virginia came away with a victory against in-state foe Virginia Tech last night after four hard-fought sets (30-19, 30-26, 27-30, 30-25), improving their record to 8-0, their best start since 1996.
Did you notice? The birth of a new team took place right here at Virginia last weekend, but most of us were too busy cursing Jefferson Pilot Sports and the whole state of South Carolina to even take note.
No. 10 Florida State will enter Saturday's game against Georgia Tech with new faces in the backfield.The Seminoles lost halfbacks Leon Washington and Lorenzo Booker in their opening two games.
Throughout his career at Virginia, Alvin Pearman always has had good hands. During his freshman year, he used those hands to scoop a Billy McMullen lateral out of the dirt and placed the "hook and ladder" in Virginia football history.
Maurice Clarett was charged yesterday with misdemeanor falsification. Clarett claimed that more than $10,000 was stolen from his car in late April.
US sprinter Kelli White has been accused by the International Association of Athletics Federation of committing a doping offense at last months World Championships.
When the Longwood Lancers (0-3) visit Charlottesville tonight at 7 p.m., look for a more confident Virginia field hockey squad to emerge as the Cavaliers look to build on their 2-1 record. Coming off a weekend where Virginia suffered a loss to Princeton Friday, then bounced back to beat Drexel Sunday, confidence proved instrumental in each game.
After its 38-24 upset of No. 11 N.C. State, the Wake Forest football team appeared in both top-25 polls.
At the time, Tim Allen and Roseanne Barr were the king and queen of television. Seinfeld was still a new sensation.
Unless one or more of the service academies is involved, rarely can a team throw for 54 yards and expect to win in college football.
The undefeated Virginia women's volleyball team (7-0) will look to extend their winning streak when they host in-state rival Virginia Tech (4-3) this evening at 7 p.m.
