The National Football League made a grave mistake this past weekend. Canceling the football games on Sunday was a cop-out. Now, before you begin to protest that I'm being insensitive and say that the NFL did the right thing and showed the utmost respect to the dead, hear me out.
W hat's the first thing that comes to mind when you envision a 6-foot-7, 255-pound man holding a chain saw?
Florida State defensive end shot in back Seminole senior defensive end Eric Powell was shot in the right lower back early Sunday morning in Orlando in what appears to have been a confrontation with a robber.
The Virginia women's field hockey team will resume its regular season schedule tonight at Klockner Stadium against an undefeated Richmond squad that is off to its best start in school history.
America is a nation of speed and efficiency, invention and progression, industry and ingenuity. Most of all, it is a nation in motion, forging ahead, foot glued to the clutch beneath an "ain't nobody gonna take my pride, ain't nobody gonna hold me down, oh no ... I've got to keep on movin'" mantra. When the horse and buggy no longer sufficed, we cranked out a Model T.
Virginia football coach Al Groh said yesterday that taking three weeks off amid a time of tragedy is a very difficult thing to do, and that the Cavaliers (1-1) would welcome this weekend's game against No.
Beginning a new ACC season last night against Wake Forest, the No. 2 Virginia men's soccer team relied on a tried and true combination to post a 1-0 win.
Eight Wyoming runners killed in crash Eight University of Wyoming track and field and cross-country athletes were killed early Sunday morning in a two-car collision 17 miles south of Laramie, Wyo.
Athletics at Virginia are set to resume tonight with a pivotal men's soccer contest between ACC rivals.
The referee calls a corner. Mason White pushes the ball, Carrie Goodloe stops it and Jess Coleman hammers it into the goal with her favorite shot, a drag flick that goes airborne. Coleman wasn't always a power scoring field hockey forward.
Announcements this week that all University athletic events through this weekend would be canceled or postponed were met with approval from members of the athletic department and the University community. The University announced that all athletic events through this weekend would be postponed following Tuesday's terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
To some, the postponement of the Virginia/Penn State football game scheduled for last night seemed like an appropriate measure in light of Tuesday's tragedy.
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.
