?First we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits, or they?ll eventually conquer you.??Dr. Rob Gilbert, success authorIt seems for every Virginia women?s basketball victory, the story goes something like this: Lyndra Littles puts up about 25 points, Monica Wright scores 20 and grabs about seven rebounds and Aisha Mohammed totals about 15 and 10.
The Virginia women?s tennis team had a busy weekend of ups and downs as it traveled to Ohio State Friday and Tennessee Sunday.The Cavaliers defeated the lady Buckeyes 4-3
In its final tune-up before the ITA National Indoor Championships, the no.
Last night?s women?s basketball game between Virginia and Duke probably could be characterized as a slugfest.
A streaking North Carolina team is not what a slumping Virginia men?s basketball squad wants to play right now, but it is what the brutal ACC schedule next presents the Cavaliers.Virginia (7-10, 1-6 ACC) travels to Chapel Hill tomorrow at 4 p.m.
The Virginia softball team will begin its 2009 campaign this weekend, and judging by the Cavaliers? 15-39 (6-15 ACC) record last spring, the team will need to play very differently if it is going to see more success on the diamond this year.The team will face Middle Tennessee and East Carolina back to back Saturday and Sunday at Greenville, N.C.
?It?s disturbing.?That?s how Virginia women?s tennis coach Mark Guilbeau described his young squad?s 2-5 loss to Tennessee Saturday at the ITA National Indoors Qualifier, which cost the team a trip to the National Indoors tournament next weekend.This weekend, however, the No.
It seemed like yet another ACC defeat for the Virginia men?s basketball team was inevitable last night, as the Cavaliers went into the locker room at halftime down 42-22 to visiting Boston College.
Calvin Baker, Jeff Jones, Sylven Landesberg, Solomon Tat, Assane Sene.That was the group of five that Virginia coach Dave Leitao put on the court to start the second half in the men?s basketball team?s 80-70 loss to Boston College last night at John Paul Jones Arena, following yet another atrocious opening period from the Cavaliers.This time, they trailed by 20.With 1:09 remaining in the final period, Leitao made his first sub of the second half: Mustapha Farrakhan for Baker.Of the five second half starters, only Landesberg was on the floor for the opening whistle.
There is no rest for the weary teams in the ACC as they work their way through an ever-challenging conference schedule.Such is the case for the Virginia women?s basketball team, which faces its second top-10 team in three games tonight as it attempts to take down No.
College football?s National Letter of Intent Day was held yesterday, and Virginia coach Al Groh officially announced his 2009 recruiting class, totaling 25 student-athletes.Headlining the class is 6-foot-7, 330-pound offensive lineman Morgan Moses of Meadowbrook High School in Richmond.
The Virginia men?s tennis team will look to build on its undefeated record this weekend when it takes on Kentucky and Maryland, its first ACC opponent of the season, at the Boar?s Head Sports Club.The Cavaliers are coming off a strong performance last weekend, during which the team beat both Arkansas and East Tennessee State 7-0 to qualify for the ITA National Indoor Championships.
Somewhere, NBC execs are smiling. They are thanking Larry Fitzgerald for scoring a go-ahead touchdown late in Super Bowl XLIII.
After coming off of a 79-54 defeat at the hands of Duke on Super Bowl Sunday, the Virginia men?s basketball team is looking to get back on track and achieve their first win since Jan.
I really want to make fun of Michael Phelps.I really do.
Microfracture surgery ? these are two words that no athlete wants to hear consecutively.
Aside from the fumble-replay controversy at the end of the Super Bowl, the big news in sports this week seems to be yesterday?s release (finally!) of former New York Yankees manager Joe Torre?s book, ?The Yankee Years.? The book chronicles those perfect falls in the Bronx when the Bombers? appeared (outwardly) to effortlessly win their 23rd through 26th World Series titles in five seasons at the end of the 20th century.
Without question, freshman guard Sylven Landesberg has been the rock for the young Virginia men?s basketball team offensively.
The athletic department announced Friday that it will retire No. 44, which belonged to 2008 University graduate and basketball star Sean Singletary, during the halftime of the Cavaliers? Feb.
