North Carolina Coach Bill Guthridge announced yesterday that guards Ed Cota and Terrence Newby will be reinstated to the men's basketball team. Newby and Cota were suspended from the team after being charged with misdemeanor assault following a Halloween night brawl.
The Virginia field hockey team will begin its NCAA Tournament run against longtime rival Old Dominion Saturday at College Park, Md. The Cavaliers and Monarchs have bumped heads in the tourney several times.
Last night's exhibition contest was a bit like a pickup game at the YMCA for the Virginia men's basketball team.
He is one of the largest men on the field, and yet he is largely overlooked. He has to recognize defensive fronts immediately and direct the rest of the offense, but credit is seldom directed his way.
The Virginia men's soccer squad enters the ACC Tournament today with the seventh seed and its season in question.
You may spend Sunday afternoon sleeping until three. You may spend it parked in front of the NFL on CBS or nursing the previous night's hangover.
The year was 1992. Dan Ellis and David Rivers were teenagers who, just like the rest of America, watched the Summer Olympics on television.
When the Cavalier basketball team faces the Nantucket Nectar Naturals tonight at 7:30 at University Hall, it will be trying to answer some important questions, one of which is just who will start for the Cavs when the season opens Nov.
The ACC handed out two of its weekly football honors to a pair of Cavaliers for their part in Virginia's 45-38 victory over then-No.
Because of the positive response to last week's tidbits and two-cents worth, the following is a hodgepodge of hype, high praise, hypotheticals and a hint of the Heisman pose. Cheers for the Cav cheer squad: Actually this group deserves a lot more than three cheers.
Basketball fever has descended upon the Charlottesville area yet again. Local fans have high hopes for the men's squad, and why not?
In Sunday's ACC Championship Field Hockey game, No. 1 Maryland captured the win over fifth-ranked Wake Forest.
Even as she prepared the Virginia women's soccer team for the upcoming NCAA Tournament, Virginia Coach April Heinrichs denied rumors she is a serious candidate to replace Tony DiCicco, who unexpectedly announced his resignation as U.S.
Following last Saturday's upset of then-No. 7 Georgia Tech, the Cavalier football team will try to keep its momentum this Saturday against Buffalo.
The road to an ACC Championship was cut short for the Virginia field hockey team this weekend, when the Cavaliers were knocked off by Maryland 2-0 Friday in the semifinals of the Conference Tournament, held in Winston-Salem, N.C. The Cavs (13-7) started the tourney off strong, with a 2-0 victory over the fifth-seeded Blue Devils Thursday afternoon in the play-in game. Forward Meredith Elwell struck first, slipping a hard shot past Duke goalkeeper Jenn Robb to put the Cavs on the board with 8:59 left in the first.
On a chilly, blustery evening at Klöckner Stadium Friday night, the Virginia men's soccer team ended its regular season the way it started it over two months ago.
It was hyped as the showdown for the Heisman Trophy - Joe Hamilton vs. Thomas Jones - the nation's most efficient passer butting heads with the country's premiere rusher.
When Virginia quarterback Dan Ellis was diagnosed with a concussion during halftime against Florida State last week, Cavalier fans got scared.
This isn't how it was supposed to end for the trio of heralded fourth-year women's volleyball players who took the Cavaliers out of the depths of the ACC and into prominence. But Maryland shocked Virginia with a 3-2 victory (15-7, 12-15, 13-15, 15-13, 18-16) in the Cavs final home match of the 1999 season Friday night. "Maryland was in seventh place and we got our butts kicked," Virginia Coach Melissa Aldrich Shelton said.
The fans, i.e. you, often catch a lot of criticism from the media, from other fans, from devout Cavalier crusaders and from any number of other outlets for your lack of enthusiasm. Some of it is deserved and some of it is not.
