The No. 10 Cavalier men (7-0) and No. 15 Cavalier women (8-0) both remain unbeaten after victories against Tennessee and Louisiana State University Saturday. The men recorded a 135-103 win over the No.
I'll admit I didn't see it coming. I don't think anyone did. The 11-point run during a 90 second span that fueled Virginia's win over Clemson on Saturday caught everyone off guard. And why would anyone expect a sudden offensive explosion?
The Virginia women's basketball team (4-3) hosts a red-hot Old Dominion squad (3-1) tonight at 7 p.m.
Virginia third baseman Ryan Zimmerman has been awarded the USA Baseball Richard W. Case Athlete of the Year Award.
In Virginia basketball lore, the name Ralph Sampson stands out prominently.On defense, the 7-foot-4 center served as the Director of Homeland Security for U-Hall, leading the Cavaliers in blocked shots in every one of his four years.
Junior tight end Heath Miller was named the winner of the 2004 John Mackey Award yesterday. The award, instituted in 2000, is given annually to the nation's best collegiate tight end.
It is the moment that students and alumni eagerly wait for before each home football game -
With the festival of lights underway and Christmas in a little over two weeks, everyone seems to be preparing their holiday wish list.
Coming off a heartbreaking 81-79 loss to Iowa State Monday, an exhausted Virginia team took on Furman University last night in Charlottesville.
For some teams, a loss is a splash of ice water to the face. For others, it's the rock that lets the boulders loose in a landslide.
The doctors told him he would have to sit out for a year. Two broken vertebrae, after all, are not something to mess around with.
Every columnist seems to have an occasional awards column in which they weigh in with their opinion on the best and worst of whatever subject they choose. Because nobody at The Cavalier Daily seems willing to put in the effort to stop me, I will now launch into my own awards column.
For any basketball team, having an outside shooter provides a resource that can ignite offensive runs, silence opponents or get a crowd on their feet faster than almost anything else.
Every team needs a dynamic, do-whatever-it-takes player. For the Virginia men's basketball team, that player is Gary Forbes.
A total of eight Virginia football players were selected for the three All-ACC teams yesterday. The five Cavaliers picked to start on the first team are the most of any school in the conference. Senior tailback Alvin Pearman compiled 1,844 all-purpose yards this season as a running back, as a receiver and on special teams en route to an All-ACC first team selection at running back.
Former Virginia coach George Welsh joined 13 other football greats last night at the College Football Hall of Fame Annual Awards Dinner induction ceremony last night.
If anyone knows hard work, it's Virginia wrestler Will Durkee. As one of only four seniors on this year's team, Durkee is tailor-made for a leadership role, as it has been through grit and hard work that he has achieved success in collegiate wrestling.
With any team that enjoys a successful regular season record coupled with several postseason victories, falling just short in the end leaves players and fans alike with a bittersweet taste.
After high school, many successful young swimmers sometimes yearn for a chance to excel at a water sport that's more than just racing down pool lanes against other individuals -- maybe a sport that has a pair of nets, a ball and demands plenty of teamwork.
If anyone knows hard work, it's Virginia wrestler Will Durkee. As one of only four seniors on this year's team, Durkee is tailor-made for a leadership role, as it has been through grit and hard work that he has achieved success in collegiate wrestling.
