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(05/19/01 4:00am)
OH GOOD heavens. It really is over, isn't it? I just started to type the second line of my byline - the one that in four years has morphed from "staff writer" through "sports editor" to the oh-so has-been "columnist" - and I realized I don't get a title anymore. This is the opinion page. In the graduation issue. It's time to go.
(04/25/01 4:00am)
I do not hail from a family of sportsmen. My father's usual Sunday afternoon companions are a good book and the living room couch, not John Madden and the Fox NFL crew. My mother's interest in athletics faded quickly after her teenage years on the basketball courts of Arlington Heights, Ill., where she made sheepish use of her 6-foot frame to accidentally terrorize small girls of equally dubious coordination.
(04/18/01 4:00am)
The NCAA men's basketball tournament is often more than enough to fill my yearly quota of underdogs and sentimental favorites. A couple weeks of fans and media swooning over the latest Coppin State or Hampton - Emporia State, unfortunately, has never made the tournament - usually has me begging for the sports world to snap back into its accustomed hierarchy. I'm almost happy to look up in April and find it's time to concede the Yankees another World Series title.
(04/11/01 4:00am)
It's hard not to feel for the men of the Virginia track team. When they heard this weekend that the recommendations of a University task force included the elimination of the men's indoor track team and the creation of a women's golf team, they understandably felt betrayed. The proposed changes would cripple the Cavalier men's track program. But the outraged runners, jumpers and throwers should keep in mind the University has few other options.
(04/04/01 4:00am)
It may not be today. You just won the NCAA title, after all. But the question will return soon, Jason Williams, the same question you answered eight weeks ago.
(03/28/01 5:00am)
A year ago at this time, Colin Ducharme wondered if his basketball career was over. He had just finished a season in which he averaged a mere seven minutes per game as a redshirt junior for Pete Gillen's Cavaliers. The real world beckoned, thanks to the physics degree the University was weeks away from bestowing upon him.
(03/21/01 5:00am)
You weren't the only one praying in front of the television five days ago. At approximately 2:30 Friday afternoon, I slid off the couch and onto my knees, palms pressed together in what turned out to be a vain attempt to will the Virginia men's basketball team past 12th-seeded Gonzaga and into the second round of the NCAA Tournament.
(03/07/01 5:00am)
This week, in the interest of progressing through my final collegiate semester, I will take tests on Geoffrey Chaucer and American government. But until then, in the interest of avoiding preparation for those midterms, I tested my knowledge of college basketball.
(02/28/01 5:00am)
My introduction to baseball came in 1987, via the good folks in the trading card division at The Topps Company. I had all the stars - well, I thought Mario Soto and Ben Oglivie were stars - including a Mets lefthander named Sid Fernandez. Fourteen years ago, "El Sid" was a promising young hurler. Now, as he attempts a comeback with the Yankees at age 38, he is instead a sad reminder that far too many professional athletes just don't know when to say goodbye.
(02/21/01 5:00am)
As I, Virginia fan No. 655,321, sat on my couch and watched the Cavalier men's basketball team struggle to catch up to Florida State Saturday afternoon, a knot began forming in the pit of my stomach. What was going on? How could we (note the use of the first person, a cardinal sin for any self-respecting fan) not crush the sorry Seminoles, especially after knocking off No. 3 Duke three days earlier?
(02/14/01 5:00am)
This week, in my wee corner of the sports page, I could regale you with my thoughts on the surprisingly competitive NBA All-Star Game or explain why the XFL does not represent the downfall of American sports culture as we know it. Or I could continue to cut a swathe through the Virginia athletic department by bashing the Cavalier men's basketball team.
(02/09/01 5:00am)
After a frenzied first month on the job, Virginia football coach Al Groh delivered a solid recruiting class of 18 future Cavaliers.
(02/07/01 5:00am)
At the risk of wet-blanketing the flames of hope fanned by the Virginia women's basketball team's 13-point victory at Maryland Monday night, I must pose the question: Why should we believe this momentum will last?
(01/31/01 5:00am)
In the hoopla that surrounded the coronation of Al Groh as Virginia's new football coach, Athletic Director Terry Holland whispered the magic words. So did University President John T. Casteen III and even Groh himself. All three expressed the belief that Groh will build on George Welsh's foundation to make the Cavalier program, as Casteen put it, "periodically a winner on the level of a national championship."
(01/24/01 5:00am)
This, evidently, is what it has come to. Kerry Collins and Trent Dilfer are your Super Bowl quarterbacks.
(01/18/01 5:00am)
When George Welsh announced Dec. 11 his intention to step down as Virginia football coach at the end of the season, the rumors already had begun to swirl. Everyone had a guess as to who would succeed the 67-year-old Welsh, the man who took a conference laughingstock and transformed it into a postseason regular.
(12/06/00 5:00am)
When the Virginia football team heads to Hawaii for its Christmas bowl game, it will be facing an opponent that has become all too familiar over the last five years. The Cavaliers (6-5) learned Sunday they will play in the Oahu Bowl Christmas Eve against No. 24 Georgia, the third time in five seasons the two teams have faced each other in a bowl.
(11/29/00 5:00am)
While most University students spend Christmas curled up next to the fire, Cavalier football players will be frolicking in sunny Hawaii, enjoying their third straight bowl game.
(11/29/00 5:00am)
I remember sitting in my best friend's living room three and a half years ago, watching Arizona beat Kentucky in 1997's all-Wildcat NCAA final. I was thrilled to see Miles Simon, Mike Bibby & Co., win the title, having somehow contracted the pigskin strain of Wildcat fever four years earlier when Tedy Bruschi and the Desert Swarm defense did me the favor of shutting out the hated Miami Hurricanes in the 1993 Fiesta Bowl.
(11/20/00 5:00am)
Did the good folks at Cavalier Sports Marketing know something the rest of the sporting world did not? When they decided to put Stephane Dondon on the cover of the first game program of the season, did they know the senior forward would respond with the best game of his career?