It's official. After a slow start, the Virginia baseball bandwagon is pulling out of the station.
The Virginia men's tennis team celebrated joyously after accumulating an undefeated 9-0 record in the ACC regular season, but that mark still contained a hypothetical asterisk.
In this weekend's gusting wind and unseasonably cold weather, the top squad of the Virginia men's golf team finished tied for second place in the 18th Cavalier Classic at the University's own Birdwood Golf Course. Virginia shot a team 893 (+29) to finish even with North Carolina State on Sunday.
There is perhaps nothing more frustrating than watching a team with unbelievable potential fail to achieve its goal time and time again.
Wooderson, played by the incomparable Matthew McConaughey, said in the film "Dazed and Confused:" "Let me tell you this, the older you do get the more rules they're gonna try to get you to follow.
With the summer sun on the horizon, I can finally start wearing my Astros mesh shorts as actual shorts again.
After playing on the road for the entire season thus far, the Virginia men's golf team will return home this weekend for the most crucial two days of the year. Virginia will host the 18th Cavalier Classic at the Birdwood Golf Course Saturday and Sunday. The event will be Virginia's final regular season tournament of the season. "We are on the bubble right now for NCAAs, and we have to beat a few teams here," senior Kevin O'Connell said.
While the Virginia spring sports scene has been dominated by the success stories of the men's tennis and lacrosse squads, as well as the defending national champion women's lacrosse team, there's a team that has been quietly putting themselves in position to make some late-season noise. The Virginia softball squad, without garnering much of the big headlines and attention, recently has begun to turn its season around.
The Virginia baseball team may be down in the ACC, but it is not out yet. Despite a disappointing 6-10 conference record, the Cavaliers (26-13 overall) enter a three-game series against No.
One of Steve Spurrier's favorite things to do as coach of the Florida Gators was beat up on Vanderbilt in football games.
The Virginia women's rowing team has the opportunity to defend its reign atop the conference at the 2005 ACC Championships Saturday.
With a little under five minutes left in last night's women's lacrosse game against No. 7 Georgetown (10-3), the No.
In a battlefield fight between a Lancer and Cavalier, who would win the battle? That question can be left for military gurus to debate, but the Virginia baseball team (26-13, 6-10 ACC) has made it clear this season that, on the baseball diamond, the Cavalier is the superior soldier.
For the women's tennis team, the end of the tennis season is almost certainly near. For the men's team, however, the season is just beginning. This weekend, both teams will compete in the ACC tournament in Cary, North Carolina.
June 6, 2004, members of the Cavalier baseball team walked into the locker room for the last time that season after just having suffered a defeat from Vanderbilt, eliminating them from the regional competition.
The NFL Draft's first pick will be made sometime before 12:30 p.m. Saturday, and two days of the most uneventful television in sports will commence. There always seems to be something happening during ESPN's draft coverage, but really, it's just a glorified version of that quintessential playground moment where the captains pick teams.
Let's play a word association game: What comes to mind when I say the words inseparable, hysterical, fun-loving and happy?
When new Virginia head coach Dave Leitao entered the Bryant Hall recruiting room for Sunday's press conference, the large crowd of media, school officials and community members shushed to catch the first glimpse of his entrance. Leitao's family entered first, his wife Joyce leading three young sons to the front row.
The University of Virginia baseball team's youth movement has been met with mixed results throughout the season.
Dorothy was right, there is no place like home. After three games on the road, the No. 3 Virginia women's lacrosse team (11-2, 3-1 ACC) ends the season with three straight home games. After winning the first game convincingly against rival Virginia Tech March 15, the Cavaliers will put their four-game winning streak on the line as they host the No.
