Because of the positive response to last week's tidbits and two-cents worth, the following is a hodgepodge of hype, high praise, hypotheticals and a hint of the Heisman pose. Cheers for the Cav cheer squad: Actually this group deserves a lot more than three cheers.
Basketball fever has descended upon the Charlottesville area yet again. Local fans have high hopes for the men's squad, and why not?
In Sunday's ACC Championship Field Hockey game, No. 1 Maryland captured the win over fifth-ranked Wake Forest.
Even as she prepared the Virginia women's soccer team for the upcoming NCAA Tournament, Virginia Coach April Heinrichs denied rumors she is a serious candidate to replace Tony DiCicco, who unexpectedly announced his resignation as U.S.
Following last Saturday's upset of then-No. 7 Georgia Tech, the Cavalier football team will try to keep its momentum this Saturday against Buffalo.
The road to an ACC Championship was cut short for the Virginia field hockey team this weekend, when the Cavaliers were knocked off by Maryland 2-0 Friday in the semifinals of the Conference Tournament, held in Winston-Salem, N.C. The Cavs (13-7) started the tourney off strong, with a 2-0 victory over the fifth-seeded Blue Devils Thursday afternoon in the play-in game. Forward Meredith Elwell struck first, slipping a hard shot past Duke goalkeeper Jenn Robb to put the Cavs on the board with 8:59 left in the first.
On a chilly, blustery evening at Klöckner Stadium Friday night, the Virginia men's soccer team ended its regular season the way it started it over two months ago.
It was hyped as the showdown for the Heisman Trophy - Joe Hamilton vs. Thomas Jones - the nation's most efficient passer butting heads with the country's premiere rusher.
When Virginia quarterback Dan Ellis was diagnosed with a concussion during halftime against Florida State last week, Cavalier fans got scared.
This isn't how it was supposed to end for the trio of heralded fourth-year women's volleyball players who took the Cavaliers out of the depths of the ACC and into prominence. But Maryland shocked Virginia with a 3-2 victory (15-7, 12-15, 13-15, 15-13, 18-16) in the Cavs final home match of the 1999 season Friday night. "Maryland was in seventh place and we got our butts kicked," Virginia Coach Melissa Aldrich Shelton said.
The fans, i.e. you, often catch a lot of criticism from the media, from other fans, from devout Cavalier crusaders and from any number of other outlets for your lack of enthusiasm. Some of it is deserved and some of it is not.
S o you decide to go to a Virginia men's basketball game. You get there 15 minutes before tipoff and find a seat in the upper area of the student section.
The Virginia men's basketball squad features a variety of new weapons in its arsenal, but none may be more lethal than that of third year Donald Hand. "He's one of our toughest guys," Cavalier Coach Pete Gillen said.
Tonight at U-Hall, the Virginia men's basketball team will start the season off in an exhibition game against the Australian All-Stars.
Terence Morris didn't even look up. The media horde descended upon him, bent on poking and prodding and maybe even extracting a unique or controversial quote, but the most-hyped Maryland forward since the late Len Bias was not paying much attention to them. Morris focused on the hotel scratch pad on the table in front of him, quietly sketching the beginnings of a cartoon.
Last season, a relatively inexperienced North Carolina team that had lost four starters learned quickly and posted an impressive 24-10 record.
Hi, my name is John. And I'm addicted to college basketball. Tragically, this addiction is not something that occurred over night.
These guys have been hyped for so long they're starting to resemble a George Lucas production. When the dust had settled and the first recruiting effort of the Pete Gillen regime was in the books, the reviews were outstanding.
The 1999-2000 Wake Forest men's basketball team has all the ingredients of an ACC Championship squad.
When Chris Carrawell first heard the news that not only would Elton Brand leave Duke early for the NBA draft, but that William Avery and Corey Maggette would join him at the next level, the Blue Devil forward mourned their departure just like everyone else in the program.
