Comeback falls short against Hokies
By Mickey Cloud | January 28, 2005BLACKSBURG, Va. -- Virginia played Virginia Tech for the first time ever as ACC opponents last night.
BLACKSBURG, Va. -- Virginia played Virginia Tech for the first time ever as ACC opponents last night.
As ESPN is prone to do, the network has been running the commercials for its new television drama, "TILT," on a continuous stream for about a month now.
For a brief instant it appeared Virginia had lost out on another star recruit, when Mikell Simpson initially announced live on ESPNNEWS that he was heading to the "University of Alabama." But Simpson corrected himself a second later and said, "Virginia," and confirmed his intentions by pulling a Cavalier hat out of his bag, the Richmond Times Dispatch reported. Simpson, a 6-foot-1-inch, 195-pound tailback who attends Harrisburg High in Pennsylvania, is ranked No.
The Virginia program announced Wednesday that it has landed Hall of Fame baseball coach Tommy Lasorda as the guest of honor at the team's annual Step Up to the Plate dinner function at Memorial Gymnasium on Feb.
Popular wisdom says "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." The Virginia men's tennis team -- coming off of the best season in the program's history -- would be inclined to agree.
Virginia men's tennis made it a picture perfect start to the season with a dominating 7-0 win over the No.
It was a rather insignificant little match at a Friday practice, one of those things coaches let a team do to have a little fun.This innocent little game was a clash between the upper class and the lower class.
For Christmas, my roommate Drew got a black-market Nintendo system featuring 100 of the earliest games made, all stored in a single controller.
Pete Gillen is no mathematician. But the apricot-topped skipper of the Virginia men's basketball knows that for his team to win two games in a row, they have to win one first.
The recipe for a successful tennis program starts with a coaching staff that knows how to recruit and develop players.
Wrestling coaches and players are constantly surprised by his wrestling style -- strange hand movements, takedowns in weird positions.
Cavalier men's swimmer Luke Anderson was selected as this week's recipient of the Atlantic Coast Conference's Swimmer of the Week.
As a sports fan, I knew at some point I would have to give the NBA another chance. So, this season I committed myself to understanding the pro game's subtleties and attempting to pay attention -- as long as I could stand it. I follow college basketball almost religiously, and despite Virginia's recent struggles I am already looking forward to March.
In order to reserve the best seats at the John Paul Jones Arena, the University is requiring fans donate generously to the new basketball stadium's construction. The arena, a key piece in the $129.8 million project, is on schedule to be completed in May 2006.
It was the evening of Dec. 29, a night most students spent far from Charlottesville, oblivious to the history that was being made miles away. Meanwhile, in front of a small group of fiercely loyal women's basketball fans at University Hall, coach Debbie Ryan quietly slipped into the record books.
With the Virginia men's basketball team entering their annual mid-season swoon, tickets to home games have hardly been hot items as of late.
Despite the preponderance of clubs for interesting, yet obscure sports, ultimate Frisbee is no longer one of them.
Jess Lewis is getting used to making an early impact. In high school, she took first place in the 100-yard freestyle at the Pennsylvania state meet as a freshman and never relinquished it, setting the state record in the event in 2003.
For the third time this month, the Cavaliers received a decommittal from a recruit that had orally agreed to play at Virginia next year, the Roanoke Times reported Friday. This time it was Matt Lowry and offensive lineman from Springfield, PA who stands 6-foot-6 and weighs 300 lbs.
Virginia fans who are disappointed with the woes of the basketball team and other Cavalier teams and wish to find solaceshould look into Virginia women's tennis.Buoyed by the arrival of a recruiting class loaded with talent, coach Phil Rogers' women's tennis squad has embarked on its 2005 campaign with high hopes of improving upon an 11-12 record compiled during the 2004 season. The main reason for optimism is the arrival of freshman Diana Srebrovic.