Imagine this: It is early April and you've just gotten your college acceptance letters. You spend weeks thinking, researching and then make your decision
TheVirginia women's basketball team will look to get over the .500 mark when they play host to Maryland tonight.
Virginia lost a back-and-forth battle to the Maryland Terrapins, 71-67, last night at University Hall.
To say the least, this is a tough one for Virginia to swallow.To call Wednesday evening's matchup with Maryland a big game would be an understatement.
As if academic achievement, social action and good looks weren't enough, last week brought another stroke of luck to the Class of 2004.
Graceful, elegant and soft. These are words commonly used to describe the game of tennis. The Virginia women's tennis team has not quite conformed to these standards. "This has been a team that's very gritty, very competitive when they're out on the court, a very scrappy team that fights very hard," coach Phil Rogers said.
I left off last time setting the table for an anticlimactic Super Bowl. With so much good karma in the weeks and days leading up to The Game, the gods wouldn't possibly bless me with a game to remember, I thought. Patriots-Panthers?
Following his 11-7 decision over Oklahoma's Teyon Ware last weekend, Moore improved his overall record to 35-0 and leapfrogged his opponent in the rankings to become the first No.
Tonight in University Hall, Pete Gillen and the Cavaliers will finish the first half of the round-robin ACC schedule against Maryland.
In the year 2001, coach Brian Boland of the Virginia men's tennis program set out in his first recruiting season to attract the best high school tennis prospects to Charlottesville.
My colleague Mr. Crane is right -- February is such a tease. Pitchers and catchers will soon report to spring training, but the baseball season is still two months away.
After last weekend's loss to No. 17 Wake Forest, the Virginia men's basketball team was faced with a number more dismal than the 91-78 final score.
Tomorrow, Kenny Mayne, host of ESPN's SportsCenter, will speak in Jefferson Hall as part of the Jefferson Literary and Debating Society's spring 2004 Speaker Series. If attendance exceeds 100 people, however, his 30-40 minute lecture will be moved to Minor Hall.
The annual pilgrimage to Punxsutawney, Pa. brings either delight or despair depending on the appear-ance of Phil's infamous shadow.
Freshman soccer standout Ryan Burke was recently named to Soccer America's 2003 Freshman All-American Team. As goalkeeper, Burke recorded a 1.12 goals-against-average while appearing in 16 matches, 15 of which he started.
After seeing the 343-person crowd -- if it can even be called a crowd -- at last night's Virginia women's basketball game at Wake Forest, I started thinking about the crowds the women's games draw at University Hall.
In their final home tuneup before the ACC tournament, the No. 9 Virginia men and No. 18 Virginia women's swimming and diving teams cruised to easy victories against the Pittsburgh Panthers. The men (9-1 overall, 5-0 ACC) beat the 16th ranked Panthers (9-2), 128-108, in a meet that wasn't as close the score indicates.
The Virginia men's and women's tennis teams each defeated their opponents this weekend to improve their winning records on the season. The Cavalier men competed in Knoxville against the Tennessee Volunteers, winning 4-3 to remain undefeated on the year.
Nolan Richardson's Arkansas teams in the mid-90s had a certain style of play. Forty Minutes of Hell, it was called, and it basically consisted of harassing the opponent from tip to buzzer, on both offense and defense.
