The chase is about to begin, and this year the Cavaliers are the ones to beat. When the Virginia women's lacrosse team steps onto the field in Syracuse, N.Y.
Barely a week after attaining its highest ranking in the program's history, the Virginia men's tennis team will face its toughest test of the season when it embarks on a four-stop Texas tour.
Ever wonder what happens when a full-bearded, rhythm-deficient, dance-adverse ogre tries to move in step with a squad of highly-trained and very lovely dancers?
It may have been a symbolic final stand as Virginia coach Pete Gillen still had his players fouling while down 78-69 with 1:10 remaining in last night's game against N.C.
This weekend is when the Virginia women's basketball season will be defined. And for the five seniors on the squad, this is where careers are made. The Cavaliers travel to Greensboro, N.C., where the 28th Annual ACC Women's Basketball Tournament tips off Thursday.
Four years ago four horsemen set out on a mission. Four freshmen galloped onto the court with the aplomb of seasoned veterans.
It happens every year, to every coach, in every sport. The time comes when fans must say goodbye to their beloved seniors and move forward with young talent.
I'm confident there are only a select few people left in the United States who don't at least attempt to fill out an NCAA tournament bracket.
It is the most common preseason story in sports -- a battle between two players for a starting position. Only in the rarest of cases does a team enter a season knowing exactly who will line up on the field on opening day.
Sports rivalries are born out of annual clashes, level competition, recruiting wars and offseasons full of workouts with revenge in mind.
Junior Doug Stewart was named ACC Player of the Week Monday after scoring two straight-set wins in Virginia's dual match victories against No.
The Atlantic Coast Sports Media Association named senior LaTonya Blue to the All-ACC Second Team yesterday.
The ACC men's basketball scheduling model for the next three years has been approved and released by league officials.
On some warm Houston evening in May of 1983, the stars must have been aligned against me. The events that unfolded that night at Chez Parsley positioned my 21st birthday to fall perfectly in the midst of Virginia's midterm week. Even luckier for me, my 21st landed on the Monday of that midterm week. Add one tequila shot, a Starrhill Pale and then the bill, and you've got yourself a recipe for some 'mmm good anticlimactic stew. I can still be relatively thankful for my luck this week, having just a single test to study for.
The Virginia women's basketball team received a No. 5 seed to the 2005 ACC Women's Basketball Tournament, which begins on Thursday in Greensboro, N.C.
Complacency can be a fatal flaw. If a precedent has been set, then there is no need to expand upon it.
The Virginia men's baseball team strives for perfection. Despite a solid 8-3 record on the season, Cavalier players and coaches alike are still looking for ways to improve to make the team a top contender in all of collegiate baseball. "We need to do some little things, such as base running and offensive execution as we move into ACC games," head coach Brian O'Connor said.
If the Manhattan Jaspers were expecting a hospitable welcome to accompany the warm weather during their trip south, they forgot to mention it to Virginia.
Following a double-header sweep of the Fordham Rams Saturday, the Virginia baseball team sent senior right-handed starting pitcher Jeff Kamrath to the mound on Sunday, with all signs pointing to another home series sweep of a non-conference foe.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. In Virginia's 90-68 loss to Wake Forest Sunday, three classic movie story lines played out on the hardwood. First, there was the traditional samurai movie motif of a student returning to defeat his master. As almost everyone knows by now, Wake coach Skip Prosser served as an assistant to Pete Gillen for eight years at Xavier before replacing Gillen as head coach in 1994. Now Prosser is piloting one of the nation's top programs, a team that is currently ranked No.6 in the country and was picked by many pundits to win the ACC at the beginning of the year.
