Some days -- no matter the heart, accuracy or will of David -- Goliath is going to come down and come down hard. Wednesday at The Park, Virginia played the role of Goliath and Mount St.
Athletes always say they want to leave everything out on the field. As I write my final column, I have similar sentiments -- not leaving any thoughts unwritten as I recap my time here. When I first undertook a weekly column, I thought it would be a piece of cake.
Senior Matt Street's three-run homerun in the bottom of the sixth inning broke a previously close game wide open, and the Cavaliers went on to defeat William & Mary 9-4 at Davenport Field last night. "Coach Mac [Kevin McMullan] just told me, pretend like the infield's in, get a sac fly," Street said.
Hidden behind goals, assists and points scored in the box score, face-offs won is a statistic that can easily be ignored.
Last weekend, football fans witnessed the annual NFL Draft in which 255 players were selected in seven rounds.
I swore when I took over as a columnist there was no way I'd write a narcissistic, sentimental fourth-year column. But, since all I can think of is the Green Bay Packers' frustrating NFL draft and my history term paper, I'm left with a slightly sentimental fourth-year column.
Flying high after a stunning sweep of No. 7 ranked Georgia Tech, the Virginia baseball team is ready to tangle with the No.
Working as a sports columnist for the Cavalier Daily is an interesting niche. That each column is adorned with a small, full-color headshot has created more than a few awkward social interactions.
The No. 8 seed Cavaliers earned a birth into the 63-team 2005 NCAA Women's Golf Championships. In just the team's second season, Virginia has finished in the Top 10 six times this season, including a tie for third place at the ACC Championships April 17.
Gene Cross was named assistant men's basketball coach yesterday. Cross, a former assistant coach at DePaul under current Virginia head coach Dave Leitao, spent six seasons as an assistant coach at Illinois-Chicago.
Many children grow up with dreams of becoming the next Michael Jordan, Larry Byrd or Shaquille O'Neal.
California girls have a reputation of just wanting to have fun. The Virginia Cavaliers softball squad certainly isn't doing much to downplay that notion. Six of the 18 players on the softball squad are from California, and two more hail from the west coast.
Breaking the previous school record of six in 1948, 1997 and 1999, Virginia had seven players selected in this past weekend's NFL Draft. Of the seven, only two former Cavaliers were selected Saturday during the draft's first three rounds.
Who is Ricky Stokes? Sadly most common sports fans will not be able to recognize him by name, but he is the man behind an amazingly long list of accomplishments. Former Virginia basketball player (1981-84) and current East Carolina head basketball coach, Stokes has been an example of success on both the court and the bench. As a player, Stokes was a member of the glory Virginia teams of the early '80s that dominated the ACC.
It's official. After a slow start, the Virginia baseball bandwagon is pulling out of the station.
The Virginia men's tennis team celebrated joyously after accumulating an undefeated 9-0 record in the ACC regular season, but that mark still contained a hypothetical asterisk.
In this weekend's gusting wind and unseasonably cold weather, the top squad of the Virginia men's golf team finished tied for second place in the 18th Cavalier Classic at the University's own Birdwood Golf Course. Virginia shot a team 893 (+29) to finish even with North Carolina State on Sunday.
There is perhaps nothing more frustrating than watching a team with unbelievable potential fail to achieve its goal time and time again.
Wooderson, played by the incomparable Matthew McConaughey, said in the film "Dazed and Confused:" "Let me tell you this, the older you do get the more rules they're gonna try to get you to follow.
With the summer sun on the horizon, I can finally start wearing my Astros mesh shorts as actual shorts again.
