Observations from a victim of March Madness
By Joe Lemire | March 19, 2004Random thoughts while overindulging in college basketball's finest day of the year: · Can't we get a national holiday declared for the first day of the tournament?
Random thoughts while overindulging in college basketball's finest day of the year: · Can't we get a national holiday declared for the first day of the tournament?
While March Madness might have just started yesterday for college basketball fans around the country, March Madness for the Virginia women's lacrosse team has come and gone.
The Virginia men's tennis team, ranked No. 16 in the nation, will host ACC competitor No. 46 Wake Forest Saturday at 1 p.m. With their record of 13-1, 3-0 ACC, the Cavaliers are off to their best start in school history.
The Virginia softball team will experience its first home action of the season this weekend when it hosts Rutgers, Youngstown State, La Salle and Towson in the Cavalier Classic. The Cavaliers opened the season strong and rode an early six-game winning streak to a 10-3 record; but since that impressive start, the team has fallen to 13-14.
The Virginia men's basketball team faces the Villanova Wildcats in second round NIT action Saturday in Villanova, Pa. The Cavaliers defeated George Washington University, 79-66, Wednesday en route to their second straight appearance in the tournament's second round. Last season Virginia was eliminated in the second round to eventual tournament champion St.
Virginia wrestlers Scott Moore and Tim Foley won their opening matches at the NCAA Division I championships Thursday in St.
Sometimes it's difficult to live up to expectations. Right now, the Virginia men's lacrosse team knows the burden of not living up to the hype.
The Virginia baseball team is confident coming into this weekend's home series against the North Carolina Tar Heels.
N.C. State's Herb Sendek was named the ACC Men's Basketball Coach of the Year Tuesday. Sendek led the Wolfpack to an 11-5 conference mark and a regular-season runner-up title.
As the clock wound down, freshman T.J. Bannister did something he hasn't had the chance to do much this season.
I am totally stressed out. Sure, the horrible weather and the post-Spring Break letdown has hit a lot of us hard this week, but my nail biting has nothing to do with school.
As his team took the court in their opening game of the NIT tournament, Virginia coach Pete Gillen probably wondered what type of effort he would get from his team.
Winning one individual ACC title in her first year was not enough. Sophomore Brielle White, the champion of the 100-yard backstroke at last year's ACC championships, underwent a new training regime and attitude transformation this past season.
The Virginia women's golf team took sixth place in the UC-Irvine Anteater Invitational Tournament on Tuesday.
Steroids. Corked bats. Pete Rose admitting he bet on baseball. The Yankees-Red Sox arms race. In a tumultuous offseason, major league baseball has made almost as many headlines as it does during the season.
For my fellow fourth years, tonight marks the beginning of our final intramural season. With Sign-Up Night II commencing this evening at 7 p.m.
Like millions of men, Jonathan Mariner goes into his New York office every day and reads the sports page.
To start every quarter and to resume play following every goal, lacrosse fans are treated to one of the most pure athletic struggles in all of sport.
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The road to a national title runs through the Gateway to the West for Scott Moore and Tim Foley, who will represent Virginia in the 2004 NCAA wrestling championships this week in St.