Expectations high for Schaub, Cavaliers
By J.D. Moss | July 31, 2003Barbeques, mosquitoes, muggy summer nights mean more than just nine innings of the national pastime.
Barbeques, mosquitoes, muggy summer nights mean more than just nine innings of the national pastime.
While the hot summer months represent the off season in the basketball world, there certainly isn't any time off for the Cavaliers.
Returning from the ACC football kickoff this weekend, I had the pleasure of being stopped for speeding just north of Charlotte, NC.
This was no ordinary tennis match. This was Anna Kournikova and all the spectacle and hoopla she brings with her.
LOWELL, Mass. -- Senior midfielder A.J. Shannon didn't get much time to let the championship soak in.
The future seemed as bright as ever for Chris Rotelli on Memorial Day afternoon in 1999. Still a few weeks away from his high school graduation, Rotelli was spending the holiday in College Park, Maryland watching the Virginia Cavaliers, the team he would be playing with for the next four years, win the national championship. "It was unbelievable," Rotelli said.
Eight is the most important number you need to know right now -- ESPN's preseason rank for the Virginia football program.
Charlottesville has always been more synonymous with the University, the arts, the Dave Matthews Band and Mr. Jefferson than with professional sports, but the success of this year's Boyd Tinsley $25,000 USTA Women's Pro Tennis Championships might start to change that.
There is a man, but you can barely see him. Hidden behind phonebook-sized folders, this man juggles more in a day than many do in a week.
The 2004 class for Virginia has bulked up to six with the additions of Kathleen Branagh and Meghan O'Leary.Branagh, a 5-foot-6 setter from Lafayette California, was named one of the top six villeyball players in the East Bay of Northern California.She has twice been selected for the USA Developmental Camp. O'Leary, a 6-foot middle from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, is a two-time All-State performer as well as the 2002 Wendy's High School Heisman winner.
Virginia sophomore golfer Brad Tilley captured the Metropolitan Golf Association title by wining the MGA/Canon "IKE" Stroke Play Championship. Tilley, who was the only player who finished under par in the amateur tournament, won despite battling tendonitis in his left hand.
The strength of the Miami athletic program was one of the driving forces behind the controversial ACC expansion that sent shock waves through the college sports world.
Virginia women's soccer coach Steve Swanson has appointed Maren Rojas to his staff as an assistant.
Beginning yesterday at midnight eastern standard time, NBA teams could officially sign free agents to written contracts.
The results of the 2002-2003 Director's Cup are in, and Virginia athletics are officially back among the best in the nation.
With a new stadium and a solid core of talent, the Virginia baseball program may have added the final piece of the puzzle by naming Brian O'Connor, the associate head baseball coach at the University of Notre Dame, the new head baseball coach of the Cavaliers.
Here's a little sports trivia for you devoted summer sessioners. Can you name the only two days of the year in which there are no games played by any of the major professional (NFL, NBA, NHL, and MLB) or collegiate (football and basketball) sports leagues?
Pat McNamara was named as an assistant coach to the Virginia wrestling program yesterday. Virginia head coach Lenny Bernstein appointed McNamara to the assistant position.
Virginia women's golf head coach Jan Mann appointed Danielle Roudebush as assistant coach. Roudebush becomes the first ever assistant coach in the programs inaugural season.
Virginia Track & Field standout Dawn Cleary posted a 9:59:30 in the steeplechase at the USA National Championship to take fifth place.