At about 2:15 a.m. March 1, 2011, a first-year College student arrived at Martha Jefferson Hospital seizing and foaming at the mouth.
Although Chuck Norris gives it a run for its money, no single force is more destructive than time.
You may not realize it, but the newspaper you are reading right now was in part an invention of Virginia football fans.
At the core of my love for sports lie the VCU Rams. My impressionable four-year-old mind was irrevocably jolted in the winter of 1992, when I strode through one of those swinging grey doors inside the Richmond Coliseum.
In the world of sports, some things just aren't supposed to happen. Lionel Messi is not supposed to miss an open shot on goal.
Achieving the impossible Bill James, the baseball guru known for creating sabermetrics, developed a formula that attempts to determine when a basketball game is "statistically over." He wanted to find out when a lead was safe, or at what point the outcome was certain regardless of future events.
A study published Monday by online journal BMC Public Health found that people with more years of higher education, especially women, experienced lower blood pressure readings for decades afterward.
[caption id="attachment_41630" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Junior attackmen Chris Bocket leads the Cavaliers into the hostile Carrier Dome with 15 goals.
If you had asked a Virginia fan a few months ago which senior would help Mustapha Farrakhan carry the team to a Senior Night victory, the answer would have been simple - Mike Scott.
[caption id="attachment_41421" align="alignleft" width="276" caption="By recording a win against VMI, senior Adam Ghitelman became the all-time winningest goalkeeper in program history with 41 victories.
