In the midst of a busy sports day, Virginia’s 67-51 win against lowly Green Bay nevertheless holds significance for those looking for it.
It’s been five years now, but it seems like a lifetime since Sean Taylor took the field for the Redskins.
I write about sports for our school paper — and have done so for the last three years — because I am a fan.
Whether or not you identify with Gang Green fans, you have almost certainly heard their signature chant.
In many senses, the Virginia coaching staff’s collective brain fart at the conclusion of the Cavaliers’ 17-14 loss to Virginia Tech precipitated an unjust ending to a hard-fought game and season.
Fans should look beyond in-game decisions in evaluating college coaches.
For those naïve enough to believe that conference realignment had ended — and let me be clear, I am one of you — the news that Maryland and Rutgers were leaving their respective conferences for the Big Ten likely jolted you Monday morning.
Each Thanksgiving we reflect on the things for which we are grateful. Most people give thanks for a loving, caring family, a successful year at work, good friends and good health — all things people are undoubtedly blessed to receive.
As almost anyone who regularly follows sports pundits or really digs the history of quantum of physics surely knows, Albert Einstein famously defined insanity as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
The anticipation for the first game of the season for the Virginia men’s basketball team was hard to put into words.
I know I might be a little biased about this topic. I’m from New Orleans and grew up on a steady diet of LSU football with a side dish of the other Southeastern Conference competitors.
When Virginia junior quarterback Michael Rocco committed an intentional grounding penalty in what the referees loosely deemed the “end zone” with 4:19 remaining in Saturday’s home tilt against Miami, you could almost hear 45,870 exasperated fans thinking to themselves, “Not again!” After the Cavaliers pilfered a win from Penn State Sept.
When Virginia junior quarterback Michael Rocco committed an intentional grounding penalty in what the referees loosely deemed the “endzone” with 4:19 remaining in Saturday’s home tilt against Miami, you could almost hear 45,870 brooding, exasperated fans thinking to themselves, “not again!”
Senior guard China Crosby does not belong on crutches. Crosby belongs on a basketball court. On the floor, Crosby has just one speed: faster than everyone else.
Last week’s media buildup to the annually over-glorified LSU-Alabama game restored one of the most asinine premises in all of sports: the idea that a college team could legitimately compete against an NFL team.
It’s time for me to fact check myself about this season’s Virginia’s football team. After Georgia Tech manhandled the Cavaliers in a 56-20 third-week loss, I wrote a gloom-and-doom column about the team’s dark direction and detailed how Virginia could lose each remaining game.
Everyone knows that baseball is “America’s Pastime,” right?
Two years ago, now-Sports Editor Ashley Robertson wrote an article where she interviewed then-junior golfer Ben Kohles.
Unless you’re a Canadian or a diehard hockey fan, you probably haven’t noticed that the NHL still hasn’t resolved the whole lockout issue.
Like many college students, I often lack time to keep up with TV shows as they air. As a result I have an ever-growing list of shows — “Breaking Bad”, “Mad Men” and “Game of Thrones,” to name a few — building up in my Netflix queue. When I find myself with some TV time, I almost invariably do what my friends jokingly call “The Sean Special”: revisit a show I’ve already seen and blitz through the entire series in about a week. My latest television binge has been to rewatch “Friday Night Lights,” perhaps my second-favorite show of all time.
