Baseball has the Red Sox-Yankees. Basketball has the Celtics-Lakers.
The Virginia men?s tennis team will have its hands full this weekend as it hosts two nationally ranked opponents: No.
The Cavalier wrestling team will begin its conference schedule this weekend against North Carolina in Chapel Hill Friday before squaring off against non-conference opponent Campbell Saturday.Virginia (7-7) will have to contend with a North Carolina team (6-6) that finished ahead of it at the Southern Scuffle hosted by UNC-Greensboro earlier this season, earning a fifth-place finish to the Cavaliers? seventh.
During Winter Break, two important things happened to me.First, I played a lot of foosball.
Shaking off an ankle injury late in the second half, senior forward Lyndra Littles sank four free throws in the final 30 seconds to lead the Virginia women?s basketball team to a 75-69 victory against Virginia Tech in Blacksburg last night.The Cavaliers (15-3, 2-1) were down 69-67 with 2:47 remaining in the game when Littles and junior guard Monica Wright stepped up to score the game?s final 8 points and prevent an upset in Cassell Coliseum.Littles gave the Cavaliers a scare when she fell to the ground with 8:23 left in the second half in the midst of grabbing a rebound.
With the No. 41 Virginia women?s tennis team tandem of senior Amanda Rales and sophomore Neela Vaez down 6-5 and a break to their counterpart duo from unranked Old Dominion in the team?s home match at the Boyd Tinsley Courts Wednesday night, Rales had had enough.
What if I told you that there was a stimulus plan that everyone could agree on ? that there was an arrangement that would breathe life into the college football postseason, a system that would resuscitate the Cinderella, quell the BCS naysayers and appease the bowl-game critics?
From the outside looking in, it is hard to gauge how much animosity truly lies between siblings.
COLLEGE PARK, Md. ? A Cavalier 3-point play followed by two straight 3-point jumpers meant 9 points in 27 seconds for Virginia during the waning minutes of last night?s game against Maryland.
The first half of the Virginia men?s basketball team?s 84-78 loss against Maryland last night was absolutely abominable from the perspective of a Wahoo ? a 45-30 halftime score is too deep a hole to climb out of on the road, and it?s why the Cavs lost the game.
Tonight, for the first time since Dec. 4, the Virginia women?s basketball team will play coming off a loss.After falling 103-74 to then-undefeated No.
Freshman Lindsey Hardenbergh chastised herself after she stroked a forehand into the net.
The Virginia men?s tennis team started its season on the right foot last night, topping No.
In a conference that boasts four of the nation?s top 10 teams, lack of offensive rhythm on any given evening can quickly lead to a resounding defeat.
Being a head coach in the National Football League is a great job to have, but it?s not an easy one.
After a team that reached the national semifinals loses three of its top six players, the following season may come with relatively low expectations for success.
The Virginia wrestling squad made its home debut Saturday at Memorial Gymnasium and continued on its home turf Sunday.
The Virginia?s women?s basketball team fell 103-74 to No.
It turns out Virginia couldn?t be the third team to slay the giant.The Virginia men?s basketball team fell 83-61 to North Carolina last night in a game televised nationally on ESPN at John Paul Jones Arena.
Last night?s 83-61 blowout loss for the Virginia men?s basketball team against North Carolina certainly wasn?t a surprise ? but the game was a lot closer than it seemed.After starting 0-2 in the ACC, you had to know that the Heels were going to come out with a little extra fuel.
