An increasing trend in football is for players to hold up four fingers before the fourth quarter to symbolize that it is crunch time and time to get to work.
Beaming with positive energy, senior co-captain Kristin Chaney can be found on the sidelines cheering on the volleyball team after suffering several injuries in the past few weeks. Chaney, known to be a versatile player for the Cavaliers, has an impressive career despite her multiple torn ligaments. In her first year of wearing the orange and blue, Chaney was a starting setter for 12 matches and achieved career highs in both assists and digs.
Luckily, I have previous experience with huge letdowns. If we go back in time approximately one year ago, there was a momentous disaster in the form of a presidential election.
In the fall of 2006, when the doors of the new John Paul Jones Arena open to welcome its first Virginia basketball game, few students will be aware of the people behind its creation.
Saturday's game with the University of Pennsylvania offered Virginia one of its final chances to make a statement in the non-conference schedule.
The knot of players outside the goal when North Carolina put the game-winner in the back of the net was so complicated it took the announcer almost five minutes after the game to sort out what had happened.
Watching the women's soccer game against Clemson Sunday might have given fans a strange feeling of dejá vu.
When an offensive lineman gets two starters from the opposing defense ejected from the game, it usually can't hurt your chances to win. Especially when one of those starters is the preseason ACC Player of the Year ... and he anchors the second best rush defense in America. Games like Saturday's at Boston College are the reason that I don't bet on sports.
CLEMSON, S.C. -- The remnants of Tropical Storm Tammy had battered western South Carolina for almost 36 hours when Virginia rolled into Riggs Stadium for Friday evening's matchup with Clemson.
Volleyball isn't usually a funny sport. Fast-paced and loud, maybe, but not funny. A rare exception to that rule came during the second game of Virginia's 3-1 victory over Wake Forest Saturday, when outside hitter Sarah Kirkwood took a set from her older sister, Emily Kirkwood. The Wake Forest side, already wary of the younger Kirkwood's dangerous potential, steeled themselves for a blast toward the corner.
CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. -- A day after the Boston Red Sox were swept out of the playoffs by the Chicago White Sox, Boston College brought solace to an ailing city Saturday, beating Virginia 28-17 and extending the Cavaliers' losing streak to two games. In the two schools' first meeting as ACC opponents, Virginia (3-2, 1-2 ACC) and Boston College (5-1, 2-1) wasted no time forming bad blood. A late chop-block executed by Virginia offensive tackle Brad Butler on defensive end Mathias Kiwanuka early in the third quarter led to two players, including Kiwanuka -- who two series later retaliated by punching Butler in the face -- getting ejected from the game.
One of the biggest contributors to the Virginia men's soccer team thus far has been senior midfielder Joe Vide.
A lot has changed in the cable world in my two decades of watching TV. Now, MTV gives equal time to "Super Sweet Sixteen" and music videos.
Winning college football games is a little like knocking down dominos. Set up 11 in a row and then go out and try to knock them all over.
Oil. Steak. Football. Field Hockey? Texas is not known around the country for its top-notch field hockey, but in certain pockets, the Lone Star State has produced some of the game's elite players. Virginia sports two of these players, senior Katie Phillips and junior Erin Hayes.
Things just seemed a little backwards for the Virginia volleyball team this week. The Cavaliers easily sent a mediocre Virginia Tech team packing 3-0 Tuesday in what would normally be considered a routine ACC contest.
Two goals should have been enough to beat Monmouth. Wednesday evening, freshman Yannick Reyering scored his seventh goal of the season and Jeremy Barlow notched a goal and an assist for the Cavaliers.
Improving to 4-0 in the ACC after Sunday's win against Miami, the Virginia women's soccer team will face North Carolina with the best record it has ever held in the conference at this point in the season.
Here's a riddle for you: If the Virginia women's soccer team played North Carolina last season in the ACC tournament title game and the Cavaliers were crowned champions at the conclusion of the match, how is it possible that Virginia has never beaten UNC? My first guess involved UNC coach Anson Dorrance selling his soul to the devil and in exchange receiving assurance that there would never be any record of North Carolina's women's soccer team ever losing a game.
