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(02/25/13 12:20am)
Unless you’ve been crushed by the burgeoning cascade of midterms or you’ve locked yourself in your room for the past week to catch up on “Game of Thrones” before the new season starts, you likely know that Virginia junior guard Joe Harris has evolved from popular basketball player into legitimate sensation around Grounds leading up to Sunday’s matchup against Georgia Tech. Always a respected player for his silky shot and affable personality, Harris enhanced his profile even further by averaging 22.4 points in his last five games and almost single-handedly sustaining the Cavaliers’ chances in frustrating road losses to North Carolina and No. 2 Miami. Heck, he likely could have fired University President Teresa Sullivan under shady circumstances this weekend and still retained much of his esteem around the University.
(02/19/13 6:21am)
When coach Tony Bennett and the Virginia men’s basketball team examined the schedule before this 2012-13 season, the chances are slim that they regarded last Saturday’s visit to North Carolina as the more manageable part of their current two-game road trip. After all, few would even compare the challenge of stealing a game in Chapel Hill from one of the nation’s most prestigious programs to that of winning at Miami, even if the ACC coaches predicted the Hurricanes to finish a respectable fourth in the conference last October.
(02/18/13 3:57am)
Despite junior guard Joe Harris’ second consecutive enthralling offensive performance, Virginia yielded season-highs in points and 3-pointers made in a fast-paced 93-81 loss to North Carolina in Chapel Hill Saturday afternoon.
(02/16/13 7:46pm)
Despite junior guard Joe Harris’ second consecutive enthralling offensive performance, Virginia yielded season-highs in points and 3-pointers made in a fast-paced 93-81 defeat to North Carolina in Chapel Hill Saturday afternoon.
(02/06/13 2:49am)
At certain points this season, such as the first half of its 66-60 loss to Georgia Tech last Sunday, the Virginia men’s basketball team has resembled an ACC juggernaut. Implementing coach Tony Bennett’s renowned man coverage scheme on defense to a tee, the Cavaliers have occasionally complemented their defensive dominance with a solid, if unspectacular, inside-out offense. When the Cavaliers produce at the offensive end, they end up in the win column more often than not, even against top-flight competition.
(02/05/13 5:19am)
Former Virginia stars Ahmad Brooks and Cam Johnson represented the Cavaliers in Sunday’s Super Bowl, both playing linebacker for the losing San Francisco 49ers.
(02/05/13 5:18am)
Virginia graduate student Catherine White capped a sensational cross country season Saturday with a 22nd place finish at the USA Cross Country Championships 8k race in St. Louis. The two-time NCAA All-American and Roanoke native has already exhausted her four years of indoor track eligibility and instead opted to compete against 85 of the nation’s top runners unaffiliated.
(02/03/13 11:07pm)
Virginia’s four-game winning streak ended unceremoniously Sunday with a 66-60 road loss to ACC bottom-dweller Georgia Tech. With the defeat, the Cavaliers (15-6, 5-3 ACC) have now tallied three conference losses against teams featuring losing records in ACC play.
(01/29/13 3:10pm)
A member of Virginia’s staff since head coach Mike London’s tenure commenced in 2010, Bill Lazor, offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach, is bolting Charlottesville to join the Philadelphia Eagles and new coach Chip Kelly’s staff. Lazor will serve as Philadelphia’s quarterbacks coach.
(01/29/13 2:58am)
After a flurry of reports that Virginia was supplanting Penn State with Oregon on its 2013 football schedule, the school confirmed late Monday afternoon that it will indeed host the formidable Ducks Sep. 7. The Cavaliers were previously slated to visit Penn State Sep. 14.
(01/28/13 5:56pm)
After a flurry of reports that Virginia was supplanting Penn State with Oregon on its 2013 football schedule, the school confirmed late Monday afternoon that it will indeed host the formidable Ducks Sep. 7. The Cavaliers were previously slated to visit Penn State Sep. 14.
(01/24/13 5:40am)
Virginia senior point guard Doug Browman stands apart from his teammates. He spoke to me from outside the Cavaliers’ swanky film room — in which Browman’s higher-profile teammates address the media — after Saturday’s 56-36 clobbering of Florida State. We spoke as if I had merely encountered him in the hall — a normal, humble guy with a sandwich in hand, casually telling me about the highlight of his basketball career.
(01/22/13 5:51am)
Like astrology, Greek life recruitment or determining the quantity of licks needed to reach the center of a Tootsie Pop, assigning one “defining moment” to an entire game or season is an imprecise art. There are pivotal moments in every game, instances that flip the script or alter the narrative. But rarely does a single moment capture the nuance or complexity involved in answering the two questions sportswriters primarily address: What happened, and how much does it matter?
(01/17/13 4:56am)
The injury-ravaged Virginia men’s basketball team will look to its bevy of young contributors to help halt a two-game skid and earn the program’s first win against Florida State in nearly six years when the Cavaliers host the Seminoles Saturday.
(01/16/13 5:25am)
Although many words could aptly describe Virginia’s performance in back-to-back road defeats last week, “healthy” is not among them. In dropping games to Wake Forest and Clemson the Cavaliers managed just 96 total points, reached the foul line just 20 times and generally fell short of the lofty standard coach Tony Bennett’s players set with a gutsy 61-52 win against North Carolina Jan. 6.
(01/16/13 2:26am)
During halftime of the Virginia women’s basketball team’s home game against Georgia Tech, the school will honor star senior swimmer and 2012 London Olympics gold medalist Lauren Perdue as part of National Girls and Women in Sports Day on Sunday, Feb. 3.
(01/15/13 4:30am)
During last Friday evening’s Major League Lacrosse amateur draft, the Hamilton Nationals made senior midfielder and All-American Chris LaPierre the second-straight No. 2 overall pick to hail from Virginia. Senior Matt White went No. 28 overall to the Charlotte Hounds, and the New York Lizards retained their rights to senior Charlie Streep after selecting him as No. 52 in last year’s draft.
(01/14/13 4:34am)
One of the many taboos of “coach-speak” — the bland jargon coaches often employ to shield themselves from revealing too much or speaking too candidly and which Rex Ryan has never quite grasped — is to assume a victor’s disposition after defeat. Sure, praising your players’ effort and communicating optimism for the future are kosher. But in an industry in which, ultimately, victories pay the bills, expressing anything short of gloomy dejection after an unfavorable result comes across not only as disingenuous but insulting to players and fans alike. This dogma applies not only to individual games, but to entire seasons, as well; that’s why John Fox sounded so deflated after the Broncos’ playoff loss to the Ravens and his razor-thin defeat to Brian Kelly for “Pomegranate-looking Coach of the Year” honors.
(01/04/13 3:28pm)
Just more than a month after firing four assistant coaches, including defensive coordinator Jim Reid, and demoting special teams coordinator Anthony Poindexter, Virginia football head coach Mike London replenished his staff with three new assistant coaches and promoted former Virginia quarterback Marqes Hagans to a full-time position. Incoming Cavalier coaches include recently-axed N.C. State head coach Tom O’Brien, who will become the associate head coach for offense and tight ends coach; Jon Tenuta, who will assume defensive coordinator duties; and Jeff Banks, the new defensive coordinator and running backs coach. Virginia also announced that defensive back Chip West will take over as the program’s recruitment coordinator.
(12/03/12 6:04am)
With all apologies to Tony Bennett and the burgeoning young Virginia men’s basketball team, a scant few will remember Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012 for the Cavaliers’ 67-51 victory against the mighty Phoenix of Wisconsin-Green Bay. That Virginia even attracted 9,600 spirited fans attests to excitement gradually building around this program, considering the game coincided with Alabama’s BCS-clinching SEC Championship victory and Green Bay stands as much of a chance of reaching the NCAA Tournament as Roger Goodell does of buying a retirement home in New Orleans. It didn’t help that the game rolled along on the heels of Michael Rocco’s abrupt release from the Cavalier football team and Jovan Belcher’s heartbreaking murder-suicide — the type of stunning tragedy that reminds us sports fanatics of that pesky thing called perspective.