[caption id="attachment_49115" align="alignleft" width="237" caption="In his first contest since being sidelined as a result of injury, No.
The Super Bowl: the "most epic day in America," according to that ridiculous Visa commercial I'm sure you've seen several thousand times by now.
[caption id="attachment_49112" align="alignleft" width="209" caption="No. 11 junior Jarmere Jenkins triumphed during his appearances on the No.
[caption id="attachment_49110" align="alignleft" width="212" caption="No. 75 junior Erin Vierra sealed the Cavaliers' 4-3 comeback victory against No.
[caption id="attachment_49054" align="alignleft" width="210" caption="Sophomore guard Joe Harris finished with 10 points and seven rebounds, but his last-second layup proved too little, too late in a battle against Virginia Tech.
[caption id="attachment_49052" align="alignleft" width="199" caption="Junior guard Lexie Gerson received the night's loudest ovation after her fifth takeaway of the game -and her 70th of the season - sparked a decisive Virginia run against Boston College.
[caption id="attachment_49050" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Junior Lauren Perdue paced the Cavaliers' Tobacco Road victories with individual wins in the 50 and 100 freestyle, two NCAA 'B' cut events.
Joe Paterno, one of the most decorated coaches in college football history after 46 years and 409 victories at Penn State, died of lung cancer Sunday morning in State College, Pa.
[caption id="attachment_48974" align="alignleft" width="133" caption="Senior guard Ariana Moorer paced Virginia with 18 points on 8-of-18 shooting from the field, but she missed a three-point attempt to tie the game with six seconds left.
[caption id="attachment_48972" align="alignleft" width="165" caption="Senior guard Sammy Zeglinski put two tough shooting performances against Miami and Duke behind him with his first double-digit point total since Jan.
Maybe it's just me, but I'd rather be told that something is absolutely awful before you tell me it's extraordinary. I prefer my preconceived notions be surpassed rather than proved hyperbole.
It doesn't get any bigger than Virginia versus North Carolina in Atlantic Coast Conference swimming and diving.
The red-hot Virginia wrestling team, coming off a sixth-place finish at the Southern Scuffle and a 33-12 win against N.C.
[caption id="attachment_48923" align="alignleft" width="283" caption="Freshman guard Malcolm Brogdon returns to his home state of Georgia tonight for the Cavaliers' game at Georgia Tech.
Given the combination of gruesome events the last 10 days, it's a wonder I can even think about sports without bashing myself in the head with my Chris Paul Hornets bobble-head. Perhaps I could have stomached a supremely-coached, devastatingly talented and far less complacent Alabama team trouncing my hometown darling LSU Tigers 21-0 in last Monday's BCS National Championship, if only because any team whose offensive game-plan revolves around Jordan Jefferson throwing wounded-duck bubble screens is probably undeserving of a championship, anyway. Virginia's loss to Duke at Cameron Indoor hardly helped matters, but at least I could have relished the team's spirited performance which validated its status as arguably the strongest defensive team in the country. But then "The Grab" happened Saturday.
[caption id="attachment_48920" align="alignleft" width="115" caption="Junior guard Lexie Gerson, recently inserted into the starting lineup, ranks second in the ACC in steals.
[caption id="attachment_48918" align="alignleft" width="265" caption="Senior attackman Steele Stanwick was selected second overall during last week's Major League Lacrosse draft.
[caption id="attachment_48860" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Virginia coach Mike London finished his second season with a disappointing postseason defeat, but still guided the Cavaliers to their most successful season in four years.
ATLANTA - As I struggled with the first paragraph to my final Virginia football column, I stumbled upon these four lines of poetic grace served up by Ludacris on Jermaine Dupri's "Welcome to Atlanta." This veritable truth bomb captures well the losses endured and lessons learned during Virginia's trip to the Dec.
[caption id="attachment_48857" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Senior forward Mike Scott went toe-to-toe with coach Mike Krzyzewski and the Cameron Crazies, but in spite of his game-high 23 points and nine rebounds, Scott and the Cavaliers saw their 12-game winning streak snapped.
