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(02/04/11 6:37am)
Watching the Cavaliers grind out Wednesday night's 49-47 win against Clemson was like watching a half-dead Rocky stumble to his feet to secure the KO against Apollo Creed in "Rocky II." It was like watching Neo get shot in the chest 10 times from point-blank range but still surviving in "The Matrix." Like watching your friend approach the finish line of the city marathon in brisk stride, only to trip 30 yards out, get hit in the head by an errant cement block, be stabbed in the leg by a crazed fan and then just barely reach his nearly lifeless hand across the line a half second before the second-place finisher.
(01/31/11 8:38am)
Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) lifted the ban on carrying firearms openly in state parks in a Jan. 14 letter addressed to David A. Johnson, the director of the Conservation and Recreation Department. McDonnell also gave initial approval for a similar loosening of restrictions in state forests, although those proposed regulations are still subject to further review.
(01/28/11 10:30pm)
With less than 10 minutes to play in last night's game, Virginia was exceeding expectations. The Cavaliers were holding Jordan Williams - Maryland's do-it-all forward and the ACC's fifth leading scorer - to a measly two points. Just one problem, though - the Cavaliers managed only 32 of their own.
(01/26/11 8:09am)
When senior forward Mike Scott decided to undergo season-ending ankle surgery, most viewed the news as a crippling blow to both the Virginia basketball team and its best player's career. Everyone thought that Scott's promising development on the court - reflected in his team-leading 15.9 points and 10.2 rebounds per game this season - was either confronting a serious road block or coming to an end. Everyone, that is, except Mike Scott.
(01/24/11 5:58am)
Sometimes I think this Virginia men's basketball team is more fickle than Lady Gaga in a hair salon. One day the Cavaliers are throwing up as many bricks as a foreman at Garrett Hall - such as their 2-20 three-point shooting disaster against Seattle - and the next they're stroking 25-foot jumpers like the 1985 Celtics, as seen in Saturday's 7-8 three-point shooting clinic in the first half against Georgia Tech. The Cavaliers live and die by the three-ball these days, and Saturday, they lived life to the fullest.
(01/21/11 6:26am)
Former Virginia tailback Tiki Barber was elected to the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame as a member of the class of 2011, filling out a class of seven legendary Virginia athletes, coaches and journalists voted on by the statewide Honors Court Committee.
(01/19/11 5:53am)
DURHAM, N.C. - About 45 minutes prior to Saturday's tip-off against Duke, I was doubled over on the side of the highway, ceaselessly puking out what appeared to be the remnants of several vital organs. If you hadn't seen what I had so desperately consumed an hour earlier at Subway - some pre-cooked egg whites slapped between a pair of time-worn, brick-hard bread imitators - you might have guessed I was just unreasonably nervous about the daunting task lying before my school's youthful basketball team.
(12/03/10 7:33pm)
Senior forward Will Sherrill suffered a fractured fibula in his right leg in the second half of Monday's 87-79 win against Minnesota. Sherrill's timetable for recovery is uncertain, although an estimate of less than six weeks has been given.
(12/02/10 6:44am)
The Virginia football team's 2010 season may have ended, but the program's rebuilding process is just underway. With his rocky first year behind him, coach Mike London has shifted his focus to solidifying his first recruiting class at Virginia.
(11/30/10 6:02am)
Monday, Nov. 22\nWashington def. Virginia 106-63\nThen-No. 13 Washington shot 58 percent from the field - and made 17-of-26 three-point attempts - to hand Virginia its most lopsided defeat since a 99-54 loss at North Carolina March 1, 2006. The Huskies' 17 three-pointers marked the most ever by a Virginia opponent.
(11/22/10 7:25am)
Just as they have done all season long, the Cavaliers spent a nippy Saturday after noon in Boston fighting, scrapping, clobbering and pounding. They did things last year's squad barely sniffed at: responding to mistakes, refusing to surrender, contending until the last snap, giving a bowl-bound team a run for its money in a critical late season contest.
(11/16/10 7:20am)
USC Upstate gave the Virginia men's basketball team a scare in John Paul Jones Arena last night before the Cavaliers dominated the second half to pull away with a 74-54 non-conference win. After leading by only three points at halftime, Virginia (2-0) used 65 percent shooting to nearly double its opponent's output during the game's final 20 minutes, going 43-26.
(11/15/10 7:27am)
The sky over Charlottesville was perfectly clear Saturday afternoon, but somehow a steady rain beat down upon Scott Stadium. Fans groaned as yellow flags inundated the field and subsequently washed away all hopes of a Virginia bowl berth.
(11/15/10 7:26am)
Virginia fans squirmed nervously in their seats during the first 11 minutes of Friday night's men's basketball contest at John Paul Jones Arena. With nine minutes remaining in the first half, their team was down by two points against William & Mary, a squad picked to finish eighth in the Colonial Athletic Association this season.
(11/12/10 6:11am)
"Coach is really big on [defense]," Joe Harris said. "He stresses it a lot."
(11/12/10 6:10am)
They ranked second-to-last in the conference in rebounding margin, last in offensive rebounds, last in blocked shots. The closest thing they had to a true center - Assane Sene - averaged fewer than two points per game. And their best big man - Mike Scott - was the definition of inconsistency.
(11/08/10 7:39am)
After the game, a bratty little kid in a Duke shirt uttered words stranger than fiction: "Hey, mommy, we're on a winning streak!"
(11/04/10 5:20am)
The No. 5 Virginia women's soccer team fell to No. 18 Boston College in the ACC quarterfinals at WakeMed Soccer Park last night by a score of 1-0. It marked the second straight year during which the Cavaliers were eliminated by the Eagles at that stage of the ACC Tournament.
(11/03/10 4:40am)
In 2008, Darnell Carter was done playing football. After being suspended for academic reasons, the former Virginia linebacker was back in his home state of New Jersey working as a dispatcher for a locksmith company. But the 6-foot-3, 240-pound 22-year-old wasn't suited to sitting around taking phone calls all day. Carter returned to the team in 2009, when he saw some playing time in the season's first three games. Knee and hamstring injuries, however, took a toll on the rest of his season.
(11/01/10 5:30am)
The kid in the plaid shirt saw an opening. With nothing but daylight ahead, he sprinted toward midfield to congratulate the guys in orange on their completely unanticipated win. And so began the moment these Virginia football players might cherish most from their much-maligned 2010 season.