According to Virginia football coach Al Groh, college football hasn't changed much after 35 years.
The Virginia football team was one of 28 institutions recognized by the American Football Coaches Association for its players' graduation rate.
T he NBA recently disclosed its new motto - the suc- cessor to "I love this game," if you will - a jingle it hopes will bind the ageless legends of decades past to the far-from-aged boy scouts currently inhabiting the hardwood.
Is college athletics threatening the integrity of higher education? The Knight Foundation Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics thinks so.
After withdrawing from the Canadian Tour's Edmonton Open before Saturday's third round with a high fever, former Virginia golfer Lewis Chitengwa died later in the afternoon at the University of Alberta Hospital. Chitengwa was taken to Misericordia Hospital earlier in the morning, where doctors told him he had the flu and sent him home.
In a report released Tuesday, an influential panel on collegiate athletics recommended changes that would reduce commercialism in big-time college sports. The Knight Foundation Commission, a 28-member panel of college presidents, corporate CEOs and former athletic stars, offered many reforms that would turn the state of collegiate athletics upside down.
When Terry Holland announced that he would step down as Virginia's athletics director May 2, the power transfer in McCue Hall made nary a ripple.
For Virginia football recruit Patrick Estes, it was a lifelong dream that could not wait. Two months before the 2001-02 academic year begins on Aug.
In just one month, the Virginia baseball program has gone from rock bottom to a promising rise. At a press conference Monday that took place on the Virginia baseball field, the University's athletics department announced that recent anonymous donations combining for $2 million will launch a $4 million upgrade of the field.
Three members of the Virginia men's soccer team were chosen last week to represent the United States at the FIFA World Youth Championships, which began Sunday in Argentina. Wolfgang Suhnholz, coach of the U.S.
In a report released Tuesday, the University of Virginia finished 30th in the final standings of the 2000-01 Division I Sears Directors' Cup.
When the 2001 women's lacrosse World Cup team travels to High Wycombe Abbey, England, to participate in the World Cup Competition from July 6-14, five Cavaliers will be aboard.
Elton Brown and Virginia men's basketball fans can finally let go of their breaths. A week ago today, the Cavaliers' star recruit out of Warwick High School in Newport News found out from the SAT Program that he received a qualifying score on the June SAT for freshman eligibility, as determined by the NCAA.
Women's basketball player Schuye LaRue announced May 25 that she will not return to Virginia for her junior season.
Virginia tennis player Brian Vahaly was already the Cavaliers' all-time winningest tennis player and a two-time All-American and ACC Player of the Year prior to the 2001 NCAA Individual Championships in Athens, Ga.
Three years ago, when Pete Gillen took over a Virginia men's basketball program plagued with a lack of scholarship players due to NCAA violations, many had hopes that he would restore the team to national prominence.
For the Virginia men's tennis team, success isn't always about what happens in the postseason. The Cavaliers ended their season on a disappointing note by falling to No.
At the beginning of the season, Virginia women's tennis assistant coach Justin Drzal had one goal in mind: Make the NCAA Tournament.
Three days after losing closing out the regular season on Sunday with a loss to Clemson, the Virginia baseball team delivered some sweet revenge. Behind clutch hitting and Dan Street's solid pitching, the seventh-seeded Cavaliers shocked the second-seeded Tigers, 7-3, in the first round of the ACC tournament in Fort Mill, S.C., on Wednesday.
The Virginia women's rowing team received its fifth consecutive invitation to the NCAA Championship meet in Gainsville, Ga., which will take place May 24-26.
