It's another exciting time for Virginia athletics. Our winter sports teams are beginning to wrap up their seasons with championships, and our spring sports teams already are setting program-firsts just two weeks into the season.
One game after struggling to generate a sustained offensive attack against a stout Loyola defense, the No.
The Virginia women's basketball team is looking to bounce back from a 73-50 loss against Boston College last Sunday as it hosts No.
[caption id="attachment_41143" align="alignleft" width="255" caption="Sophomore outfielder Taylor Williams has driven home a team-high eight runners in 31 at-bats.
[caption id="attachment_41052" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Junior attackman Steele Stanwick rebounded from a quiet first game against Drexel and exploded offensively to tally three goals and five assists as Virginia routed overmatched Mount St.
While the NBA geared up for its All-Star festivities last weekend in Los Angeles, I - like many others - was interested only in watching L.A.
With placement in the ACC Tournament looming large in the minds of basketball fans across the conference, the Virginia men's basketball team travels to Atlanta today to face Georgia Tech in the second game of the year between both teams. The Cavaliers (13-13, 4-8 ACC) won 72-64 in Charlottesville earlier this year in a game that saw senior guard Mustapha Farrakhan post an ACC career-high 23 points and the team drain 10 shots from beyond the arc.
[caption id="attachment_41048" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Senior Danny Hultzen performed well on the mound and at the plate at Auburn.
On the heels of a season-opening 15-8 loss to No. 7 Loyola Saturday, the No. 12 Virginia women's lacrosse team faces a road test tonight against Richmond, another team in search of its first victory of the young season.
While most college basketball conferences are being run by a few powerhouses - Duke in the ACC, Texas in the Big 12, Ohio State in the Big Ten - there is one conference where parity abounds: the Big East.
Just four days after the Virginia women's swimming and diving team made history by winning its fourth consecutive ACC Championship, the men's squad heads to Atlanta, Ga.
[caption id="attachment_40977" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="The No. 1 Virginia men's tennis team became the first squad to notch four consecutive ITA National Indoor titles.
The Virginia women's swimming and diving team collected its fourth consecutive ACC title this past weekend, becoming the first women's team in the history of the program to earn four titles in as many years. Virginia did not face an easy road to repeating as conference champions.
[caption id="attachment_40973" align="alignleft" width="216" caption="In the final set of Virginia's matchup against No.
[caption id="attachment_40970" align="alignleft" width="282" caption="Senior midfielder Shamel Bratton moved into No.
In "The Art of War," Sun Tzu wrote, "If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles." Others may interpret Tzu's words differently, but in my mind, he was speaking directly to the 2010-11 Virginia men's basketball team and its fans.
[caption id="attachment_40917" align="alignleft" width="172" caption="Senior guard Mustapha Farrakhan shook off an injury sustained early in the second half to carry the Cavaliers with 10 crucial points down the stretch.
If you make your way toward Blacksburg, you might come across a sound that typically whizzes through the frozen forests of southwestern Virginia around this time of year.
[caption id="attachment_40914" align="alignleft" width="225" caption="sWith his game-high four goals, junior attackman Chris Bocklet spearheaded a Cavalier offense that dominated the Dragons in the fourth quarter.
[caption id="attachment_40912" align="alignleft" width="158" caption="Despite freshman guard Ataira Franklin's 10 points in 32 minutes, Virginia's two-game winning streak came to a screeching halt against Boston College.
