A few weeks ago, I wrote about how football recently became the center of my sports world, and how "If we can only get through that pesky World Series, it'll be football every single night on SportsCenter." Well, since then, my Green Bay Packers have dropped three straight games and things aren't looking good, particularly with Brett Favre's health problems.
COLLEGE PARK, MD. -- For the second time in as many weeks, Virginia remained tied with its opponent through 90 minutes and overtime was necessary to decide the winner.
GENEVA, Switzerland -- For two months, I have lived 15 minutes from Lake Geneva, sandwiched between the Jura Mountains and the Swiss Alps.
With seven games left in the season, the Cavaliers are all about growth. With an even record of 6-6, the Cavaliers have shown improvement over last year, but still have plenty of growth potential.
Lambeau Field and Cameron Indoor Stadium. Both structures house two of their respective sports most storied and successful teams.
His name means "male child born on Wednesday." But it will be a Thursday night when junior defensive end Kwakou Robinson gets the chance to prove that he belongs with the men of the trenches in ACC football. Luckily for him, Robinson will take more than just an interesting name to Scott Stadium when the Virginia Cavaliers (4-0, 1-0 ACC) line up to face the Clemson Tigers (1-3, 1-2 ACC) for ESPN's nationally-televised Thursday night game.
Are you ready for some football? When the Cavaliers take the field against Clemson Thursday night in ESPN's nationally-televised broadcast, there will be even more at stake than avenging an overtime loss that derailed Virginia's aspirations to contend for the conference title last year.
With the loss of three top-12 teams this past weekend -- No. 6 West Virginia, No. 7 Ohio State and No.
The No. 14 Virginia women's golf team finished 14th at the Mason Rudolph Championship this past weekend.
Virginia's loss to Wake Forest yesterday was devastating. Not so much because it broke a 9-0 winning streak, or because the play that finally won the game was so controversial.
The Virginia women's tennis team won three of the four singles championship flights and won a doubles title in the nine-team Deacon Classic last weekend.
So far this season, the Virginia field hockey team (6-6) has experienced the highs and lows that can be expected from such a young squad.
Somewhere, amid working on hitting, pitching and fielding, the women's club softball team finds time to organize and run multiple intercollegiate tournaments each year. Last weekend, the club softball team hosted an eight-team tournament at The Park.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- Everyone knew it had to end sometime, but no one wanted it to end like this. Following a controversial call in the first period of overtime, Wake Forest (7-3-1, 1-2) scored a golden goal in sudden death to hand No.
The Virginia softball team pounded George Washington University yesterday throughout the five played innings, winning 8-0. In the last game of the Cavalier Fall Classic, the Cavaliers pulled ahead by three against the Colonials in the first inning.
The No. 22 Virginia men's soccer team didn't need a Ralph Friedgen pep talk to protect their house Saturday as they won their fifth of five home matches with a 2-1 victory over the Wolfpack of N.C.
Virginia fell to North Carolina Friday, but defeated N.C. State Saturday to finish 1-1 on the road against ACC competition for the second straight weekend.
The No. 13 Virginia field hockey team put forth a valiant effort but looked overmatched yesterday, as it was shut out 5-0 by its rival to the North, the No.
The women's cross country team finished seventh and the men's team placed eighth at Friday's Great American Cross Country Festival in Cary, N.C. Top-team finishers freshman Emily Harrison and senior Cheryl Carr crossed the finish line within a second of each other to place 20th and 21st, respectively, in the women's race. Duke won the meet 56-85 over second place North Carolina.
What is it about rivalry that changes games -- changes teams for that matter? Dictionary.com defines a rival as "one who attempts to equal or surpass another, or who pursues the same object as another; a competitor." By that definition, wouldn't every opponent a team played be a rival?
