The Missouri Athletic Club announced yesterday that Virginia men's soccer senior forward Ryan Trout was one of 15 candidates for the Club's prestigious player of the year award.
Today a frustrated and hungry Virginia women's soccer team will face a George Washington team that has won its past two games in a row. The Colonials defeated St.
Joe Paterno was crying. That's like saying Bobby Knight and Miles Brand shared a handle of gin over a game of poker.
"You know, Shakespeare said something about this, didn't he, once? 'Much ado about nothing?'" Virginia coach George Welsh joked at yesterday's press conference in reference to the recent controversy over a letter from Virginia athletics director Terry Holland. Holland posted a letter last Wednesday on TheSabre.com, an independent Virginia sports Web site.
If you missed the radio broadcast of the Cavaliers' 27-10 victory over Wake Forest Saturday, you didn't miss much. Aside from Antwoine Womack's 40-yard touchdown run and Kevin Coffey's 48-yard touchdown catch, Virginia did just enough to take care of business on the field. The question on everybody's minds had to do with what happened off the field this week.
The Virginia women's volleyball team continued its rollercoaster season this weekend, splitting a pair of ACC road matches.
The Virginia women's soccer team left Klöckner Stadium Friday night more than a little frustrated. After a daunting first half that left them down 1-0 to No.
If Alecko Eskandarian continues to play like he did in yesterday's 6-1 Cavalier win against N.C.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C.-After three minutes Saturday, the Virginia football team looked on the verge of blowing out Wake Forest, a mediocre conference opponent, in a game where a lopsided win would have allowed all the Cavs, and coach George Welsh especially, to avoid persistent questions about the coach's job security. But 57 minutes of play later, the Cavs had managed only an efficient but unremarkable 27-10 victory, and the questions remained.
Clouds loomed over the University Hall Turf Field yesterday as the Virginia field hockey team hosted No.
Tomorrow evening in Winston-Salem, the Virginia football team will find itself in a must-win situation. Falling to 2-2 (1-1 ACC) with a sound defeat last week at the hands of then-No.
The Cavalier men's soccer team hopes history will not repeat itself Sunday, when N.C. State comes to town for a 1 p.m.
Tonight at 7 p.m., the Virginia women's soccer team will face No. 2 Clemson at Klockner Stadium.
The Virginia field hockey team looks to enact some revenge Sunday at 2 p.m. when it hosts No. 1 Maryland at University Hall Turf Field.
Wake Forest's football media guide touts John Stone as "the fastest man in the ACC." While many players claim blazing speed, Stone can back his school's assertion.
Maybe it was being on familiar home turf or maybe it was letting go of built-up anger. Whatever it was, something powered the Virginia field hockey team past in-state rival William & Mary last night.
What was Brian Vahaly's reward for becoming just the second tennis player ever to compete in the finals for both singles and doubles at the T.
Virginia freshman forward Alecko Eskandarian continued to pile up the goals, but he couldn't keep the Cavalier men's soccer team from swallowing a 3-2 overtime loss to unranked William & Mary last night in Virginia Beach. Tribe freshman Philip Hucles opened the scoring in the 50th minute and hammered home the game-winner in the 100th.
When most kids coming out of high school were trying to decide which college they should attend, Billy Baber had a unique choice to make: go to college on a football scholarship or make money playing professional baseball. Naturally, Baber took his mother's advice and decided to attend Virginia.
So there I was in my half-furnished living room two nights ago, watching "Monday Night Football" and putting off all kinds of very necessary homework, when Terrence Wilkins makes a 27-yard touchdown catch for the Indianapolis Colts. At about that point, it occurred to me that any self-pitying Cavalier fan worth his striped tie - you know, the ones for whom Virginia football is a potent, drunken mixture of khaki and halftime tailgating - had surely just raised his hands skyward and pined for the days when Wilkins wore No.
