The conundrum of conference realignment
If you've paid attention to college football's conference realignment headlines during the last two weeks, you probably have heard the following rumors:
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If you've paid attention to college football's conference realignment headlines during the last two weeks, you probably have heard the following rumors:
I try to like the MLB. I really do.
Three years ago last month, I started my first semester as a student here at Mr. Jefferson's University. Having just transferred from Tulane University in New Orleans, I was hoping for and expecting a lot of different things. I was eager to hear new words like "Grounds" instead of campus and "first year" instead of freshman, meet new people and experience a new place.
If you were living under a rock for the past three days, I've got some news for you. U.S. District Court Judge Susan Nelson issued a 94-page ruling Monday evening regarding the recent NFL work stoppage in which she sided with the players. Nelson ordered that the lockout be lifted because of the illegality of the NFL owners' attempt to keep the athletes from working.
Following last Tuesday's matchup between the Lakers and the Spurs, NBA Commissioner David Stern fined Kobe Bryant a sum of $100,000 for using a gay slur to refer to a referee who had hit the superstar with a technical foul during the game.
I'm generally not a fan of judging an athlete by how many championships he or she has won. I think that's too simplistic a metric and doesn't take into account a lot of things, such as the strength of the player's team, the strength of the league or much of anything apart from who gets lucky during the playoffs. If championship runs were our only measuring stick by which we judge a player's ability and performance, then Robert Horry - the winner of seven NBA championships - would be the greatest NBA player of my lifetime. But I don't even think it's necessary to lay out all the reasons as to why Horry doesn't even come close to earning that title.
After reading fellow columnist Eric Cooper's piece, "A year without football," which appeared in yesterday's paper, my friend Solomon and I began to discuss our upcoming sports fate - a year that potentially would go on without the NFL and the NBA. College athletics would dominate the sports market in the absence of these two powerhouse organizations. While I'd typically be fine with that prospect, Monday night's unwatchable championship game gave me cause to be a little bit more concerned.
For the second time in the last five years, a No. 11-seeded CAA team from the state of Virginia is gearing up play for a berth in the NCAA basketball championship game. And with VCU fever sweeping the nation, I figure now is as good a time as any to recount my greatest sports memory.
Coach Debbie Ryan's 34th season was extended for at least two more days as the Virginia women's basketball team beat Boston College 53-48 last night during the third round of the WNIT.
If you ever find yourself facing an NCAA investigation, I've got some advice for you - deny 'til you die.
The Cavalier Daily reported Tuesday that long-time Virginia women's basketball coach Debbie Ryan had resigned from her position after 34 years at the helm of the squad. It was a fairly straightforward and fact-based story, but I urge you to read between the lines.
When I think about the Virginia men's basketball season, I can only think of one way to describe my overall feelings toward the 2010-11 campaign: torn.
It's another exciting time for Virginia athletics. Our winter sports teams are beginning to wrap up their seasons with championships, and our spring sports teams already are setting program-firsts just two weeks into the season. Rather than focus on just one of these all deserving teams, here's your second installment of the Cavalier sports roundup. I promise, no cheesy MasterCard jokes in this one.
When Super Bowl Sunday rolled around a little less than two weeks ago, I did what many of you probably did - I went to a Super Bowl party. The party was at the house of my friend, Fed. Fed is an extraordinarily nice person, almost to the point where it's started to become a problem. He just has too many friends. By the time I arrived at the party fashionably late (a Cavalier Daily columnist is never on time), I was relegated to sitting in a desk chair essentially in another room of the party, far away from the TV.
It was a simple comment on washingtonpost.com that best summed up the past week for Virginia basketball:
This week's installment of "Ridiculous Happenings in College Sports" comes from the University of Connecticut, where Robert Burton, a major benefactor of the Huskies football program, wrote an angry six-page letter demanding the return of a $3 million gift he gave, along with removal of his family name from the football complex.
Apparently the athletic department at Mr. Jefferson's University has a problem with free speech.
I'm going to make a pledge to all seven of my regular readers right now; during this upcoming holiday season, I will watch every single one of the 35 college football bowl games on TV.\nWhy on earth would someone put themselves through that kind of torture?
Throughout its 15-5-2 season, the Virginia women's soccer team has struggled to take the first strike.
Although an ACC championship or bowl game might be off the table for the Virginia football team, the Cavaliers still want one final high note in a season filled with ups and downs.