Many children grow up with dreams of becoming the next Michael Jordan, Larry Byrd or Shaquille O'Neal.
California girls have a reputation of just wanting to have fun. The Virginia Cavaliers softball squad certainly isn't doing much to downplay that notion. Six of the 18 players on the softball squad are from California, and two more hail from the west coast.
Breaking the previous school record of six in 1948, 1997 and 1999, Virginia had seven players selected in this past weekend's NFL Draft. Of the seven, only two former Cavaliers were selected Saturday during the draft's first three rounds.
Who is Ricky Stokes? Sadly most common sports fans will not be able to recognize him by name, but he is the man behind an amazingly long list of accomplishments. Former Virginia basketball player (1981-84) and current East Carolina head basketball coach, Stokes has been an example of success on both the court and the bench. As a player, Stokes was a member of the glory Virginia teams of the early '80s that dominated the ACC.
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.
