There's not a single doubt in my mind that the importance of sporting events in anyone's mind crumbled with the twin towers on Tuesday.
The ACC has decided that it's just not yet ready for sports yet. In the wake of Tuesday morning's terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, ACC officials postponed all athletic events through Saturday.
The ACC made sure yesterday that there will be no cheering on conference campuses to interrupt the nation's stunned silence. In light of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, ACC commissioner John Swofford announced that all conference stadiums and fields will remain dark until Friday. "We are deeply saddened by the tragic events of [yesterday] morning," Swofford said in a press release.
Despite all of the apocalyptic chaos surrounding yesterday's horrific terrorist attack, my editors tell me that the sports page must go on. I'm sure many of you share my same sense of disbelief at the surreal events that took place yesterday morning and can think of little else than the pain the victims of this tragedy have been forced to endure. Instead of reading about Barry Bonds' latest historic numbers, our news publications will be filled with numbers of a much darker significance because of the cowardly actions of some fanatics. Fanatical behavior should be reserved for those individuals brave enough to go topless in the stands of Lambeau Field during a blustery winter day in Wisconsin.
Even as far back as his days of middle school track and soccer, Matt Ruhl has been into running.
If football is synonymous with war, then Happy Valley is college football's ground zero. It is here - nestled among the Commonwealth's mixture of mountains and valleys - that Joe Paterno has erected a football republic of Spartan fortitude, capturing two national titles and notching five perfect seasons.
Virginia football coach Al Groh announced in a press conference yesterdaythat sophomore Bryson Spinner would be the starting quarterback for this week's match-up against Penn State on Thursday night. Groh quickly added that both Spinner and sophomore Matt Schaub will receive playing time against the Nittany Lions, saying that both quarterbacks have been performing well in practice. "Both Schaub and Spinner are making very good progress," he said.
Abby Whittenburg is no stranger to excelling through the rigors of daily competition. Long before she became the starting setter for the Virginia women's volleyball team, Whittenburg was the youngest member of another team, the family of George and Ann Whittenburg.
COLLEGE PARK, Md. - The No. 3 men's soccer team exorcised some demons yesterday. A 3-2 victory over Creighton in the first-place game of the Maryland/Fila Classic in College Park, Md., avenge last season's humiliating 3-0 home loss to the Bluejays in the third round of the NCAA tournament. "We've been looking forward to playing [Creighton] ever since we lost to them last year," junior midfielder Ryan Gibbs said.
Field hockey downs Ohio, SW Missouri State On Saturday, the Cavaliers rallied to tie Ohio at two with 34 seconds left on midfielder Jessie Coleman's goal.
The Virginia cross country team got its first taste of competition this season on Saturday when it ran in the annual Lou Onesty Invitational at Panorama Farms.
The Virginia women's soccer team just couldn't get anything going offensively in yesterday's finale of the Virginia Soccer Classic at Klockner Stadium.
The No. 3 Virginia men's soccer team enters this weekend's Maryland/FILA Classic aspiring to return home with two wins.
Virginia men's soccer coach George Gelnovatch announced a change in the Cavaliers' schedule yesterday.
Virginia football coach Al Groh reaffirmed in a teleconference yesterday that he is not dissatisfied with the Cavaliers despite their narrow one-point win over Division I-AA Richmond on Saturday. "I don't know that I'm dissatisfied in the team in any respect," Groh said.
The No. 5 Virginia women's soccer team looks to build on last weekend's 3-0 win over Mississippi by kicking off the 2001 Virginia Soccer Classic against West Virginia (2-0) tonight. Although the Cavaliers (1-0) opened the season by shutting out the Rebels, they were less than convincing.
The Virginia cross country team will start off a new season Saturday in the annual Lou Onesty Invitational at Darden Towne Park.
Virginia senior midfielder Carrie Goodloe chuckled self-consciously when asked about how she got her start playing field hockey. "I was actually kind of a late bloomer," Goodloe said.
Top prospect commits to Virginia Derrick Byars, a 6-foot-7 small forward from Memphis, Tenn., verbally committed to Virginia on Tuesday night. Byars averaged 19.8 points, 7 rebounds and 3.3 assists per game in his junior year at Ridgeway High School.
