In the past few years, Virginia and Virginia Tech have become more intense rivals in nearly every sport, including volleyball.
After a confidence-shaking 1-0 loss to Seton Hall Sunday, the No. 21 Virginia women's soccer team looks to regain momentum Friday night versus a University of Vermont Catamounts squad boasting only one win thus far this season.
Normally, Virginia's narrow 13-12 escape over Wyoming last weekend would be reason enough for the Cavaliers not to overlook tomorrow's opponent, Western Michigan of the Mid-American Conference.
The stands at Klöckner Stadium are becoming more and more crowded as the men's soccer season rolls on, and for good reason.
After a week of rest, the Cavaliers head into a weekend where they will face two different types of opponents.
All is not well in HooVille, but I don't get it. We won. We evened up the record. We've righted the ship.
While some people have built one program up to the elite level, Bruce Arena has done it three times. Arena, a native of Brooklyn, N.Y., came to Charlottesville in 1978 after serving as an assistant lacrosse coach at Cornell University.
The injuring of one of this season's captains, senior wide receiver Deyon Williams, left a crucial void to be filled on the Virginia football team.
To watch junior Katie Oakes play, one would think every play was the final play of the NCAA Championship.
After sneaking away with its first victory of the season, the Virginia football program has found itself amidst a quarterback controversy.
A decent but unspectacular start to the season last week. I nailed the Notre Dame and LSU games, totally botched the Florida State and UNC picks and pushed the OU game.
After Virginia's narrow win over Wyoming Saturday, a good friend of mine said that every year, he has to have a "DTR-type" conversation with the team in the home opener to figure out the status of their relationship over the course of the season. A "DTR," for clarification, stands for a discussion "defining the relationship," often occurring after a couple has been "hanging out" for a while. The dominant individual in the relationship will usually tease the other participant along, avoiding the DTR or minimizing the discussion. The "lower hand in the relationship" tries to force a decision on the status of the relationship, though often puts the DTR off in favor of "waiting it out" until the other individual is ready. Such has been my experience with the Virginia football team. I have never been able to define my relationship with Cavalier football.
With just 26 seconds left in regulation, senior midfielder Ian Holder saved Virginia from potentially one of its most embarrassing losses of the season.
On the shelf to right of my desk sits what I like to think is a decent DVD collection -- seasons of "Sopranos," "West Wing" and "Seinfeld," along with movies such as "Hoosiers," "Robin Hood" and "Shawshank Redemption." However, also on that shelf are some "VHS" tapes.
After nine seasons at the helm of the men's soccer program, Virginia coach George Gelnovatch has molded his program into a perennial powerhouse.
Last weekend, the Virginia volleyball team (7-2) finished 2-1 at the Michigan/Pepsi Challenge, at Cliff Kean Arena in Ann Arbor, Mich.
When Dave Leitao took control of the Virginia basketball program a year and a half ago, one of his main priorities was to turn around a rapidly drying recruiting pool.
This Saturday's football game marks the University's official homecoming weekend. For the Virginia women's soccer team, however, it was last weekend that marked a much-anticipated homecoming of a different sort -- the return of two key sophomores, Jess Rostdet and Nikki Krzysik. Returning to Charlottesville after a nine-month stint with the U-20 national team, Rostdet and Krzysik took the field Friday night as the Cavaliers took on the Georgia Bulldogs.
I think I can speak for thousands of Virginia fans when I say I am still letting out a sigh of relief that began when Wyoming kicker Aric Goodman's extra-point attempt sailed wide right Saturday evening to give the Cavaliers an unsightly 13-12 overtime win over the Cowboys at Scott Stadium.
The Virginia men's and women's cross country teams began their season over the weekend by hosting the Lou Onesty Invitational. The women placed first out of 11 teams while the men -- whose top seven runners did not run Saturday -- finished second behind Liberty. "I was really pleased with our women's team," coach Jason Dunn said.
