ATLANTA-Try this: Register for that one class you absolutely need a good grade in to graduate, attend every lecture, buy every book.
The Virginia women's basketball team is ready to storm the court with confidence in the season opener tonight against Mount St.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.-In a game that can be best characterized as painfully boring, the second-seeded Virginia men's soccer team grabbed an early 1-0 lead and sat on it to beat seventh-seeded N.C.
The Virginia field hockey team has been pretty successful so far this season, with a No. 9 national ranking and a 14-7 record.
The Cavalier women's soccer team wants to go to California. Not simply because the fall chill has descended upon Charlottesville, but also because the NCAA Final Four is at San Jose State this year.
The faces may have changed, but the names remain the same. Virginia (5-3, 4-2 ACC) and 25th-ranked Georgia Tech (6-2, 4-2), which has won four in a row, resume their rivalry tonight under the bright lights of Bobby Dodd Stadium in Atlanta and ESPN cameras.
Following what appears to be a recent trend, the 2000 ACC men's soccer tournament is too close to call. "I could put my vote in for any of the teams who get into the semifinals to win it," North Carolina coach Elmar Bolowich said.
In a surprising move, Virginia passed up an opportunity for the Nov. 18 football game against N.C.
Talk to Deanna Zwarich for a minute and you'll get a feeling of what it's like to be a student-athlete.
Some of you may be angry with Darryl Strawberry. You're bitter that he threw away a Hall of Fame career in the sport you grew up on, wasting his life on cocaine and hookers, ducking child support payments and beating his wife.
The Virginia women's basketball team overcame what its coach termed "lazy" play to post an 86-72 victory over Uralmash, a Russian team, in its exhibition finale last night at University Hall. "I was disappointed with the defensive play in the second half," Cavalier coach Debbie Ryan said.
Wally Walker, one of the greatest players in Virginia basketball history, has been selected by the NCAA Honors Committee to receive a NCAA Silver Anniversary Award. Walker, a University Board of Visitors member, will be recognized along with six other recipients at the honors dinner Jan.
Ask most casual college football fans about Georgia Tech football and they are bound to talk about Joe Hamilton, the record-setting quarterback who graduated this spring.
Virginia senior middle blocker Deanna Zwarich was named the Atlantic Coast Conference Volleyball Player of the Week for her stellar play against Clemson Friday and Georgia Tech Saturday. Zwarich led Virginia to a 3-0 (15-7, 16-14, 15-5) win over Clemson and a come-from-behind 3-2 (10-15, 8-15, 15-2, 15-10, 15-12) victory over Georgia Tech. Zwarich's 22 kills against moved her to 500 kills on the season and gave her Virginia's single season kills record.
This isn't your father's college football anymore. It's your trigonometry teacher's. Sadly, the great gridiron game on which I was reared and from which arrived my childhood heroes now holds decimal points and derivatives more dear than the pride and pageantry that established it as America's lifeblood. Blaming the Bowl Championship Series and its convoluted ranking formula is always the trendy thing to do, but college football's obsession with the insignificant and renunciation of the important began eons before the BCS cronies decided to confuse us all. It all started with the polls. First, God bless us, we had but one, the AP.
The 2000-01 Virginia wrestling season kicked off Sunday night with the annual Blue-Orange intra-squad exhibition meet.
Here's a line you might have read while sifting through coverage of Virginia football: Antwoine Womack is quietly leading the ACC in rushing this season. But it's not entirely true.
The Virginia women's volleyball team picked up a pair of conference wins this weekend, defeating ACC powerhouse Georgia Tech 3-2 Saturday night and sweeping Clemson 3-0 Friday at University Hall. Senior co-captain Deanna Zwarich and freshman Shannon Boyle led the Cavaliers (15-12, 8-6 ACC) on a furious comeback against the conference-leading Yellow Jackets.
Three days after getting bounced from the ACC Tournament in the first round, the Virginia women's soccer team had its collective feelings soothed by receiving one of 16 first-round byes in this week's NCAA Tournament. The No.
Hopes were high for both the Virginia and Maryland men's soccer teams as they entered Klockner Stadium for their regular season finale Friday night.
