In the age of 24 hour-a-day sports coverage, overreaction has become the norm. We all have become conditioned to extremism - every fumble is cause for a benching, each loss means it's time for a coach to go and an upset is a surefire sign that the season is over.
[caption id="attachment_45976" align="alignleft" width="199" caption="On the first shot of the second overtime against North Carolina, junior forward Caroline Miller buried the golden goal into the corner of the net for her team-leading 10th goal of the season.
[caption id="attachment_45974" align="alignleft" width="292" caption="Junior Jarmere Jenkins triumphed in the orange singles and orange doubles draws at the U.Va.
[caption id="attachment_45919" align="alignleft" width="146" caption="Junior outside linebacker LaRoy Reynolds recorded a team-high 12 tackles and also forced a key fumble but could not prevent a big play late from Southern Miss.
"Sunshine go away today/ I don't feel much like dancing." Jonathan Edwards first crooned the opening words of "Sunshine" in 1971 as an anti-war protest.
[caption id="attachment_45916" align="alignleft" width="203" caption="Freshman midfielder Eric Bird entered Friday's game against North Carolina tied for fourth on the team in scoring with one goal and two assists.
[caption id="attachment_45914" align="alignleft" width="267" caption="Freshman midfielder Kelsey LeBlanc scored the first of Virginia's goals against Boston College for her second goal of the season.
[caption id="attachment_45868" align="alignleft" width="192" caption="Sophomore quarterback Michael Rocco has completed 61.1 percent of his passes for 652 yards.
[caption id="attachment_45866" align="alignleft" width="218" caption="Senior defender Hunter Jumper comes back from suspension tonight.
[caption id="attachment_45864" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Sophomore midfielder Elly Buckley leads Virginia with five goals, 13 points and 26 shots this season.
After enjoying the winningest season in program history, the Virginia baseball team returns to the dugout at Davenport Field at 6 p.m.
[caption id="attachment_45800" align="alignleft" width="200" caption="Senior goalkeeper Chantel Jones has allowed just 0.88 goals per game this season, but faces a North Carolina team that averages 3.29 goals Saturday.
[caption id="attachment_45777" align="alignleft" width="255" caption="Junior setter Beth Wildermuth leads Virginia with 389 assists this season.
[caption id="attachment_45773" align="alignleft" width="240" caption="Junior Brittany Altomare led Virginia in scoring during 7 of 11 tournaments last year, including a first place finish at the Golfweek Collegiate Challenge.
Last Saturday's tussle against North Carolina at Chapel Hill held special meaning for Virginia redshirt freshman running back Kevin Parks.
[caption id="attachment_45702" align="alignleft" width="224" caption="Junior forward Will Bates bursted out of the gates, scoring four times during the game's first 20 minutes.
Many moons ago, there was a young, wily boxer - an overzealous, undersized scrapper who never fought as the physically bigger man.
[caption id="attachment_45611" align="alignleft" width="199" caption="After collecting a red card Friday night against No.
Bundle up, Virginia, the ACC is about to get a lot colder. In a move which shows how little even its own members think of Big East football, Syracuse and Pittsburgh have applied to, and were subsequently unanimously accepted to, the Atlantic Coast Conference.
[caption id="attachment_45608" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Junior back Phoebe Willis hails from a family which has seen 17 of its members come and go from Grounds during the last 150 years.
