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(04/25/03 4:00am)
Well, it's that time. With finals and term papers looming, and the cap and gown eyeing me ominously from the corner of my room, it's time for me to hang up my pen as a Cavalier Daily writer. I've had the opportunity to do some pretty cool things in my time in the basement. I've covered a Final Four (men's lacrosse, 2000), covered the dedication of the expansion of Scott Stadium and discussed the last days of George Welsh and the Pep Band. I've even had a certain well-established University coach that I've covered fairly extensively call me an idiot -- but without knowing that I was a writer or associating me with anything I ever wrote about her team. (Not that reading anything I ever wrote would change her mind.)
(04/16/03 4:00am)
For most people, water is nothing but a good thing, especially this time of year. It's a tool for re-hydration after a long run in the sun or a long night on a barstool. It's a cool refresher, whether you're jumping into a pool or getting soaked from a watergun or balloon. With the thermometer reaching the 80s -- I'm not complaining, mind you -- it's difficult to see anyone getting hurt by water this time of year.
(04/09/03 4:00am)
The next decade of college basketball will determine how history will treat the 2003 NCAA champion Syracuse Orangemen. They're still cleaning the Superdome after the Orangemen exorcised coach Jim Boeheim's Final Four demons, and the question already has arisen: what do we make of these guys?
(04/03/03 5:00am)
I'd like to start off this week's installment of my column by apologizing to both of my faithful readers for those cries for help masquerading as NCAA Tournament predictions that ran last week. To recap, I got exactly one Final Four team right, and that was the one that I was least confident in. So, in preparation for the public outcry that's sure to come, I'd like to offer some suggestions for what can be written in this space after I get run out of town on a rail for being unqualified. Here are my ideas: 1) a "Missed Connections" personals section 2) the crossword puzzle (professors tend to hear it when you open up the B section in class) 3) a kid's corner with connect-the-dots or 4) crop reports. And to any of you that suggest "a big, useless white space, just like you" -- hey, run it by my editors, they're probably getting a lot of suggestions right about now.
(03/26/03 5:00am)
Last night, the Virginia men's basketball team bowed out of the NIT with a second-round loss to St. John's. Despite the less-than-stellar showing from the Cavaliers this season, however, basketball season still is in full swing. Most of the Cinderella teams in the NCAA Tournament have had their fun and gone back home, leaving the sport's heavy hitters to battle for the crown, in what may be the best spectacle in American sports. And despite the absence of Virginia and regular-season opponents Wake Forest, N.C. State and Indiana from the Sweet 16, the tournament still holds the undivided sports interest of most University students. With that in mind, here's how the last four rounds of the tournament will play out.
(03/19/03 5:00am)
Sometimes it's a scary world that we live in today. Terrorists, snipers, biological weapons and leaders on power trips all have served to escalate international tension and make the citizens of the United States and the world take stock of their lives. Sports fans aren't merely looking forward to the NCAA tournament and whether or not BYU will have to switch brackets. First and foremost on the minds of the nation is the United States' potential war with Iraq. And it's precisely this international unease that should compel Myles Brand, Bud Selig and the rest of the sporting world to postpone their respective events until a later date.
(02/26/03 5:00am)
It's getting to be that time of year -- the February dead zone. It's the least favorite month of the year for most sports fans. College football is over, the Super Bowl is done and even the "second season" of recruiting has passed us by. That leaves the sports fan to satisfy himself with pre-March Madness basketball, spring training reports and even the odd boxing match -- or flip the channel from sports programming to entertainment. In that realm, at least, champions are in the process of being crowned. Monday night's Grammy awards have passed, so I take my cue from the next big entertainment awards show, the Academy Awards, to give out the Chippers to the best of the best recent performances in the world of sports.
(02/19/03 5:00am)
My friends, it's a bleak
time of year to be in
Charlottesville -- or anywhere else on the East Coast, for that matter. The sidewalks are soggy, the roads are mushy and all that most of us have to do is work. Even our diversions have been disappointing, as anyone who watched the finale of "Joe Millionaire" can attest. About the only positive of the recent snowfall is that it doesn't appear to have blackened the cars of those of us who live in the 14th Street area.
(02/11/03 5:00am)
The word "parity" gets thrown around a lot in the sporting world. Generally, it has to do with a team like the Baltimore Ravens winning the Super Bowl. However, these days there is a prime example
(02/05/03 5:00am)
Kickers. Football kickers. There's just something about kickers that separates them from their teammates. It seems like they play a different sport than the rest of the football team. The rest of the team wallows in the trenches and busts heads -- and then the kicker comes out and swings his leg when all is said and done. It's the position that allows us regular guys to claim we're on the football team when we're hitting on girls in bars. Without the kicker, we'd get laughed at. Maybe we still do, but there's a glimmer of hope.
(01/29/03 5:00am)
Well, it's finally happened. My time as sports editor of The Cavalier Daily has come to a close, and I'm slowly being put out to pasture as a columnist. It's actually something I've always wanted to do since I joined the staff of the paper -- and my ambitions have come back to bite me. Here it is, time for my first regular column to grace the Sports page, and I can't think of a damn thing to write about.
(01/23/03 5:00am)
Howard, McCants earn ACC honors
(01/20/03 5:00am)
Eskandarian selected with first pick in MLS Draft
(01/16/03 5:00am)
Eskandarian, Oliver named to All-America teams
(12/03/02 5:00am)
BLACKSBURG -- The Virginia football team, which seemed to be flying high after an improbable streak of wins over highly-ranked opponents, was brought back to earth with a bang this weekend.
(12/03/02 5:00am)
Men's basketball falls to Indiana in Maui
(11/21/02 5:00am)
Yancey reaches PGA Tour Final Stage
(11/19/02 5:00am)
Faithful readers of the Cavalier Daily, I have a confession to make. In the several hours a day I spend down here in the basement of Newcomb Hall, most of the time I'm not doing work on the newspaper. No, I'm dealing with a time-consumer more insidious, more afflicting and much, much more addictive than anything this newspaper has to offer. That's right, I'm talking about fantasy football.
(11/19/02 5:00am)
Men's ice hockey defeats Georgetown
(11/18/02 5:00am)
Over the course of its surprising 2002 season, the Virginia football team has made a habit, good or bad, of playing to the level of its opponents. Whether the competition is South Carolina or Akron, the Cavaliers have rarely been blown out and even more rarely have blown opponents out themselves. And in Saturday's rain-soaked 14-9 victory over No. 22 NC State, the Cavaliers once again missed an opportunity to put some distance between themselves and their opponent in the scoring column, but the victory was no less sweet.