What do you call someone who announces his retirement from football and is playing five years later?
[caption id="attachment_41796" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Senior Claire Crippen, a team captain, is one of seven seniors who has left an indelible mark on the Virginia program during her four years.
March Madness is here - no, I'm not talking about Charlie Sheen - and like many other sports fans, I'm eager for the world's greatest sports tournament to begin.
The Virginia baseball team had never swept the Tigers at Clemson - until last weekend. The No. 6 Cavaliers (16-1, 3-0 ACC) won the opener behind junior pitcher Danny Hultzen's 5-0 shutout.
After capping off a sterling indoor season with a resounding victory at the ITA National Team Indoor Championships, the No.
[caption id="attachment_41747" align="alignleft" width="236" caption="Coach Debbie Ryan led Virginia to 736 victories.
[caption id="attachment_41742" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Junior guard Sammy Zeglinski failed to convert on two free throws during the final minute of the game.
In the world of sports, some things just aren't supposed to happen. Lionel Messi is not supposed to miss an open shot on goal.
Achieving the impossible Bill James, the baseball guru known for creating sabermetrics, developed a formula that attempts to determine when a basketball game is "statistically over." He wanted to find out when a lead was safe, or at what point the outcome was certain regardless of future events.
[caption id="attachment_41730" align="alignleft" width="205" caption="Senior guard and tournament MVP Nolan Smith led Duke to a 75-58 title-clinching victory against UNC, scoring 20 points and recording 10 assists.
All season long, Virginia wrestling coach Steve Garland believed his squad could repeat as ACC champions if his top-seeded wrestlers finished near the top of their weight classes, while the lower-seeded wrestlers held their own within their divisions.
[caption id="attachment_41651" align="alignleft" width="208" caption="In 7.2 innings of work, junior pitcher Will Roberts only surrendered three hits to the Purple Eagles' lineup.
When I think about the Virginia men's basketball season, I can only think of one way to describe my overall feelings toward the 2010-11 campaign: torn. All year long, we supporters of the Cavaliers have been torn. We're torn between wanting to see the positives and dismayed as a result of the negatives that you simply can't ignore - like setting record lows in points scored on multiple occasions. We're torn between hoping that coach Tony Bennett is the right guy for the job and wondering if a slow-it-up, run-a-half-court-set offense really ever will work in the ACC. We're torn between understanding that the development of freshman players takes time and wanting to throw the remote, your cell phone, or anything else you can easily get your hands on when one of them makes a mistake. We're torn between understanding that we've lost a lot of players to injury and wondering if the team really just isn't that good. It always has seemed like just when we fix one thing - be it offensive shooting, offensive consistency or just plain defense - everything else breaks down.
[caption id="attachment_41630" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Junior attackmen Chris Bocket leads the Cavaliers into the hostile Carrier Dome with 15 goals.
[caption id="attachment_41626" align="alignleft" width="184" caption="Senior Chris Henrich could earn his third ACC crown with a win Saturday.
After posting a 5-9 record in conference play this season, the Virginia women's basketball team begins its quest for an ACC crown this afternoon as the No.
The season will not get any easier for the Virginia softball team, as its next stop will be in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., where it will compete in the ESPN Rise Tournament.
[caption id="attachment_41503" align="alignleft" width="91" caption="Senior forward Will Sherrill made the most of his game-high 37 minutes - by far the most of his career - and finished with 14 points and eight rebounds on Senior Night.
If you had asked a Virginia fan a few months ago which senior would help Mustapha Farrakhan carry the team to a Senior Night victory, the answer would have been simple - Mike Scott.
[caption id="attachment_41494" align="alignleft" width="161" caption="Senior Ryan Collins wrapped up a strong indoor campaign by winning his third-consecutive ACC crown in the 5000m with a blistering time of 14:07.68.
