Last week's games were brutal. Just awful to pick and tough to watch. For a weekend that had such promise, the most memorable event ended up being the replay firestorm in Eugene, Ore. All that is a long way of saying that I fared poorly, although a 1-2-2 week won't force anyone to put up their tuition check this week to get back even.
Nico Colaluca scored two goals, including the game-winner in overtime, as No. 1 Virginia remained undefeated, vanquishing West Virginia 2-1. The Cavaliers (8-0-0) claimed their third overtime victory in a row to turn the No.
After a strong weekend, the No. 10 Cavaliers look to carry some momentum into tonight's game against William & Mary.
At the beginning of his spring football press conference, Al Groh said that the Virginia football team had a "significant rebuilding job" in front of it. Taking that statement as reliable, my first column in August argued that if the Cavaliers were in fact "rebuilding" in 2006, then Jameel Sewell should be the starting quarterback. His upside is tremendous.
Sept 18 -- The Virginia women's basketball team has named the 2006-2007 season's captains: senior guard Tara McKnight, senior center Siedah Williams and junior point guard Sharneé Zoll. Williams and Zoll are the Cavaliers' starting center and point guard, and were both captains during the 2005-2006 season.
After Saturday's game that featured all three Cavalier quarterbacks, Jameel Sewell is slated to start for Thursday's game against Georgia Tech entering practice this week. "I think we will probably start the week in the order in which we finished the game and see how it progresses from there," Virginia coach Al Groh said. That would put the order on the depth chart as Sewell, Christian Olsen, Kevin McCabe. Sewell, a redshirt freshman, played the entire second half against Western Michigan in the first appearance of his career.
The MLB season is winding down and the Virginia baseball team is in the midst of the offseason; however, the Virginia club baseball team is gearing up for an exciting fall season.
Virginia jumped to No. 1 in a recently released Soccer America poll.Virginia has not been this high up in the poll since 2002.
I hoped it would never come to this. Watching Western Michigan cel-ebrate on our V-sabre at midfield after pulling off the 17-10 upset Saturday left me with one of the worst tastes in my mouth following a Virginia football game. I can deal with the home losses to Florida State and Miami.
Unfortunately for Vermont, the Virginia women's soccer team chose Friday night to take out its frustrations over last week's upset loss to Seton Hall by pummeling the Catamounts, 6-0. "We had a good week of training overall," Virginia coach Steve Swanson said.
It took nearly 60 minutes for midfielder Jeremy Barlow to get his chance to play Friday at Klöckner Stadium.
Would somebody please wake me up? This had to have been only a nightmare. In the real world, there is no way that Virginia could lose at home to a middle-of-the-pack MAC team like Western Michigan. But this situation, however, is what we've come to at this school in the sixth year of the Al Groh era.
When Jameel Sewell's last-ditch fourth-down scramble was stopped just yards short of a first down in Saturday's 17-10 loss, the Cavaliers' immediate and long-term future both moved squarely under the microscope. On paper, Virginia (1-2, 0-0 ACC) dominated the Broncos in terms of total yards (258 to 179), number of first downs (13 to 9), and third-down conversions (5-14 to 3-14). None of these statistical advantages was significant in changing the result of the game, though. "Western Michigan knew exactly what kind of game they had to play, which was play a good, sound, solid game, see if Virginia would do enough to help them win," coach Al Groh said.
A loss was clearly not the result the Virginia volleyball team (7-3) was looking for when they traveled to Virginia Tech (7-3) Friday night to open the ACC season.
Today I've got a deal for everyone out there. This is one of those you-didn't-hear-it-from-me deals, so let's just keep it between us. What if I said you and your friends could play a pickup game on the floor of the JPJ any day of the week for $14?
In the past few years, Virginia and Virginia Tech have become more intense rivals in nearly every sport, including volleyball.
After a confidence-shaking 1-0 loss to Seton Hall Sunday, the No. 21 Virginia women's soccer team looks to regain momentum Friday night versus a University of Vermont Catamounts squad boasting only one win thus far this season.
Normally, Virginia's narrow 13-12 escape over Wyoming last weekend would be reason enough for the Cavaliers not to overlook tomorrow's opponent, Western Michigan of the Mid-American Conference.
The stands at Klöckner Stadium are becoming more and more crowded as the men's soccer season rolls on, and for good reason.
After a week of rest, the Cavaliers head into a weekend where they will face two different types of opponents.
