At first glance, the Virginia football team's receiving corps would appear to be of little threat to the defenses of the ACC.
It's my first week back and already I'm stressed. Well, you might be too if you had a paper due before classes started, or in this case, a sports column.
This season the Virginia women's soccer team looks to improve on a very successful 2000 campaign.
Virginia football coach Al Groh announced yesterday that senior tailback Antwoine Womack will have surgery on his ankle. Womack went down with a high ankle sprain during Saturday's season-opening game at Wisconsin. Womack will undergo surgery as soon as the swelling in his ankle goes down, Groh announced.
Richmond September 1/Home 2000 Record: 10-3 Key Players: QB Sean Gustus, OL Ken Farrar, DL Josh Spraker, DB Chad Blackstock, KR Cordell Roane Musical quarterbacks: Coach Jim Reid's Spiders are among the top teams in Divison 1-AA, ranked 13th in the ESPN/USA Today preseason poll.
Thunderstorms delayed the start of the 2001 Virginia football season, but in the end it was Wisconsin who truly rained on the Cavaliers' parade.
One of the first changes new coach Al Groh made when he arrived to Virginia was to completely revamp the defensive scheme.
Oklahoma got its national title defense off to a good start as it defeated North Carolina, 41-27, in the Hispanic College Fund Classic on Saturday. The Sooners scored 31 points in the first quarter to set the tone for the game.
If the Cavaliers have had a consistent strength over the past few years, it has been their running game.
If it's dangerous living you seek, then do yourself a favor. Forget those childish, ESPN-concocted X-Sports (you know, all that skysurfing balderdash), and please don't stake your name and fortune to mercurial dot-com ventures.
With its 2001 schedule as one of the most demanding in school history - Sports Illustrated ranked it No.
In the end, the University did not have to look very far to find a new athletics director. At a press conference Tuesday afternoon, University President John T.
The latest era of Virginia football, new helmets and all, begins Saturday against No. 22 Wisconsin in the Eddie Robinson Classic.
After a breakout 2000-20001 season, Virginia junior guard Roger Mason Jr. was named to the 2001 USA Basketball Men's World University Games team on Aug.
At the ninth FINA World Swimming Championships in Fukuoka, Japan, former Virginia swimming star Ed Moses finished sixth in the finals of the 50-meter breastroke on July 29.
After playing through multiple injuries in a grueling sophomore season last year, Virginia men's basketball star Travis Watson needed a break.
Now it's time for the hard part. The Virginia men's basketball team surprised most people with its 20-9 record and fourth-place finish in the ACC last season.
Never mind that it's a big step for the game of soccer. Forget the fact that it's huge for women's sports.
Call it a new era, call it an overhaul or simply call it a coaching change, but the hiring of Virginia football coach Al Groh is the buzz of the Cavalier sports community.
PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla.-The only thing more nerve-racking than a 280-pound Florida State defensive end bursting around the corner on your blind side is standing over a three-foot birdie putt to win the hole as Seminole coach Bobby Bowden watches from the fringe. Several dozen members of the Bowden clan trade the rigors of college coaching and recruiting for the sandy beaches and grassy greens of Panama City Beach, Fla., for two weeks every year. After arriving in the Florida panhandle one late June day, I was fortunate enough to share a round of golf with the four Bowden sons and their father to see what the cameras could never show: an inside look at the "First Family of College Football." Everyone knows that Bobby Bowden paces the Florida State sideline and created one of the greatest dynasties that sports - professional or collegiate - has ever seen.
