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Last Sunday, quarterback Peyton Manning won the Super Bowl — with his highlight pass being a two-point conversion — when the Denver Broncos upset the Carolina Panthers 24-10. As the confetti floated down and Manning adjusted his pre-made Super Bowl championship hat, a thought kept creeping into my head: what was really being put into these football games?
The Virginia lacrosse team capped off last year’s season with a disappointing 19-7 loss to Johns Hopkins in the NCAA tournament. Otherwise, the Cavaliers had an overall record of 10-5, which is by no means disappointing overall for the program. However, with the Virginia lacrosse team’s definition of success, their 0-4 record in the ACC fell short of their standards.
The top-ranked Virginia men’s tennis team is set to kick off the ITA National Men’s Team Indoor Championships with a first-round matchup against No. 16 San Diego. The tournament, which features the top 16 teams in the country, is scheduled to begin Friday and end with a champion being crowned Monday.
In a tuneup game before the ITA National Indoor Championship, the No. 1 Virginia Men’s Tennis team hosted and defeated No. 9 UCLA 6-1 Tuesday night at the Boyd Tinsley Courts at the Boar’s Head Sports Center in Charlottesville.
The No. 1 Virginia men’s tennis team (4-0) continued to roll as it dominated a pair of matches Saturday. In a double header, the Cavaliers swept both Elon (2-3) and Furman (2-3) on the Boyd Tinsley Courts at the Boar’s Head Sports Center in Charlottesville.
At tipoff, No. 9 Virginia was just a two-point favorite against Pittsburgh. Playing on the road — in front of the Oakland Zoo, no less — against a team that received votes in last week’s AP poll, the prediction seemed about right. And, after all, it was only 11 days since the Cavaliers needed a miracle to win at Wake Forest.
Men’s Tennis
Virginia’s early-season wins against then-No. 12 Villanova, No. 14 West Virginia and California were all nice. Even the recent victory against then-No. 8 Miami was impressive. But none compare to the statement the Cavaliers made Saturday against Louisville.
A short-handed women’s tennis squad suffered its first loss of the 2016 season Friday, losing 4-3 against No. 28 South Carolina (5-0).
Swimming & Diving
The eighth-ranked women’s tennis team completed a sweep of the their bracket of the ITA Kickoff Weekend on Saturday, defeating both BYU and Columbia. The team will now move on to the ITA National Team Indoor Championships at the University of Wisconsin early next month.
Men’s Basketball
Although No. 5 Virginia’s final non-conference game against Oakland Dec. 30 will be no cakewalk – the Golden Grizzlies took No. 1 Michigan State to overtime Dec. 22, as ESPN made Cavalier fans well aware – coach Tony Bennett now has a good idea of his team after surviving the gauntlet of NCAA tournament-caliber opponents.
Virginia football coach Bronco Mendenhall announced Saturday the addition of eight assistant coaches to his staff. Six assistants from Mendenhall’s staff at BYU will join former East Carolina head coach Ruffin McNeill and Virginia wide receivers coach Marques Hagans.
After years of pleading, the “Fire Mike London” campaign finally fulfilled its mission last Sunday. The movement started quietly after a 4-8 2012 season and steadily garnered a larger and larger following — myself included — after the three losing seasons that followed. It culminated last weekend in London’s sixth loss to archrival Virginia Tech in as many attempts.
Swimming & Diving
It was a somber scene Sunday morning when Mike London addressed the Cavalier football team for the final time as head coach. Both he and his players reportedly were brought to tears.
Head football coach Mike London will resign effective immediately, Virginia director of athletics Craig Littlepage announced Sunday.
The Virginia men’s soccer team’s 2015 campaign began with much promise — the Cavaliers welcomed one of the top recruiting classes in the country — but ended prematurely as weaknesses doomed them at the least opportune time when they needed just one win to renew their postseason rivalry with the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in the NCAA Quarterfinals.