Wake Forest's football media guide touts John Stone as "the fastest man in the ACC." While many players claim blazing speed, Stone can back his school's assertion.
Maybe it was being on familiar home turf or maybe it was letting go of built-up anger. Whatever it was, something powered the Virginia field hockey team past in-state rival William & Mary last night.
What was Brian Vahaly's reward for becoming just the second tennis player ever to compete in the finals for both singles and doubles at the T.
Virginia freshman forward Alecko Eskandarian continued to pile up the goals, but he couldn't keep the Cavalier men's soccer team from swallowing a 3-2 overtime loss to unranked William & Mary last night in Virginia Beach. Tribe freshman Philip Hucles opened the scoring in the 50th minute and hammered home the game-winner in the 100th.
When most kids coming out of high school were trying to decide which college they should attend, Billy Baber had a unique choice to make: go to college on a football scholarship or make money playing professional baseball. Naturally, Baber took his mother's advice and decided to attend Virginia.
So there I was in my half-furnished living room two nights ago, watching "Monday Night Football" and putting off all kinds of very necessary homework, when Terrence Wilkins makes a 27-yard touchdown catch for the Indianapolis Colts. At about that point, it occurred to me that any self-pitying Cavalier fan worth his striped tie - you know, the ones for whom Virginia football is a potent, drunken mixture of khaki and halftime tailgating - had surely just raised his hands skyward and pined for the days when Wilkins wore No.
The gold medal hopes of the U.S. men's soccer team were crushed by a 3-1 loss to Spain in semifinal play Tuesday, but the Americans still can salvage their improbable run in the 2000 Olympics by winning the bronze.
If last year's game against William & Mary is any indication for the Cavalier field hockey team, tonight's 7 p.m.
New assistant cross country coach Jason Dunn has brought to his team a new strategy, as well as a new attitude.
Virginia senior Brian Vahaly advanced to the finals but lost in both the singles and doubles title matches Sunday at the T.
After giving up 28 straight points to Clemson and 220 rushing yards to Woody Dantzler, the Virginia football team was surprisingly calm yesterday.
After Illinois performed a 63-21 woodshed job on his powerless Cavaliers in January, George Welsh promised a "reinvented corporation." Little did he know his refurbished pigskin machine would be the football equivalent of Crystal Pepsi. So I exaggerate. But the man with 185 victories to his name could never have guessed that media vultures would recite his memorable prophesy more often than the Preamble to the Constitution.
From the beginning, the Virginia women's soccer team trailed Florida in the final game of the Virginia Soccer Classic Tournament, but refused to admit defeat until the final buzzer yesterday. The No.
CHAPEL HILL, N.C.-The Virginia men's soccer team showed resilience by coming back from a 1-0 halftime deficit yesterday to soundly defeat ACC rival North Carolina 3-1 on at Fetzer Field. The No.
After a silver medal finish in the 100-meter breaststroke last week in Sydney, former Virginia swimmer Ed Moses seized the Olympic gold Saturday as a member of the 4x100 medley relay team that smashed the world record by more than a second. Moses, Lenny Krayzelburg, Ian Crocker and Gary Hall Jr.
The Virginia women's volleyball team lost in straight sets to Wake Forest Friday night but improved its mental approach and determination overnight to defeat Florida State, 3-1 (15-9, 14-16, 15-8, 15-6), and shoot back into the ACC title race. "Our match was just a mental test and we did really well tonight," Cav coach Melissa Aldrich Shelton said.
If you were unsure about the Clemson offense, Woody Dantzler or the Tigers' dreams of an ACC title, you're singing a different tune now. Sure, Dantzler, a quarterback no less, led the ACC in rushing before Clemson visited Virginia Saturday.
NORFOLK--They say history repeats itself. Yesterday it happened when the Virginia field hockey team lost to Old Dominion for the seventh-straight time, this time by a 5-1 score. Senior goalkeeper Becky Worthington gave the No.
Entering Saturday's game against Clemson, Virginia knew it needed to contain quarterback Woodrow Dantzler to win.
After Tuesday's narrow defeat of ACC rival Duke, the Virginia women's volleyball team faces two of its toughest conference opponents this weekend at University Hall.
