The Stanford and Hartford women's soccer teams will be at Klockner Stadium this weekend for the Coca-Classic tournament, but it still remains to be seen which Virginia squad will show up. Will it be the Cavs who have risen to No.
The Virginia volleyball team looks to get back on track this weekend in a pair of ACC games. The Cavs take on North Carolina tonight at 7:30 p.m.
In what looked like a massacre on paper, the Virginia men's soccer team just barely escaped Klockner Stadium with a 2-1 victory over Virginia Tech last night. Tech "is a better team than we thought they were," Cav coach George Gelnovatch said.
Casey Crawford did not get to contribute to Saturday's 35-7 win against Wake Forest, but the Virginia tight end got some good news yesterday. Crawford has not played this season because of the hernia surgery he had this summer, but he was one of 11 Division I-A football players to be named to the 1999 American Football Coaches Association Good Works Team.
The relationship between athletes and the media is a vexing one, a bond that continues to baffle me to this very day.
Robbie Bosco knows all too well what it feels like to be Kevin Feterik - to live every second of every Saturday in a pressure cooker. That's because Bosco, a former Brigham Young quarterback who led the Cougars to the national championship in 1984, was in Feterik's position, right under center, 11 years before Feterik arrived in Provo, Utah. So that may explain why, instead of advertising his protégé like a garage sale, Bosco, who now coaches the BYU signal callers, pulled his prodigy aside for a stern dose of reality.
Sitting on the brick wall surrounding the interior of Scott Stadium, I watched George Welsh's post-game press conference. I nearly took a great fall. After witnessing Virginia's win over Wake, I expected the usual we-need-to-do-better jargon from Welsh.
Two of the U.Va. football team's finest starters, tailback Thomas Jones and defensive lineman Yubrenal Isabelle, were named ACC Players of the Week for their respective positions after Virginia's 35-7 rout of Wake Forest Saturday. Jones, a 5-10, 207-pound fourth year from Big Stone Gap, Va., led a formidable offensive attack for Virginia, rushing for 164 yards and posting three touchdowns - a personal career high - including touchdown runs from 15 and 12 yards out.
Tonight in the cozy confines of Klockner Stadium, the No. 16 Virginia men's soccer team (3-2-1, 0-1-1 ACC) looks to return to their top form against a Virginia Tech (4-2) squad it has owned in the recent past. "Virginia has usually dominated the series, but it's always a big game for us," Virginia Tech men's soccer coach Jerry Cheynet said.
Has Dwayne Stukes violated some ancient supernatural credo? Is he living on Indian burial ground?
Can you remember what your dreams were when you were 10 years old? To be an astronaut? A politician, maybe?
The Cavalier women's tennis team won three out of four singles divisions Sunday to make a solid showing at the three-day Wolfpack Invitational held at N.C.
In the aftermath of Virginia's sado-masochistic 35-7 beatdown of Wake Forest, Cavalier fans no doubt scratched their collective noggin yesterday as they scanned the new Associated Press poll in search for their beloved Cavs.
High hopes for Travis Griffith's final year of Cavalier football were shattered with yesterday's announcement that the defensive end will need season-ending ankle surgery.
The Cavalier field hockey team fell to North Carolina 1-0 yesterday, marking its first loss of the season. The Tar Heels (6-1, 1-0 ACC) tallied the only goal of the game when forward Kristen McCann scored with 7:33 to go.
Wake Forest quarterback Ben Sankey said he knows why his team fell apart in front of 50,000 people at Scott Stadium Saturday night. "They took away our running game," Sankey said in the locker room with a tired shake of his head. The Cavalier defense did worse than that.
After the humiliating loss to Clemson last weekend, many people were ready to write off the Virginia football team.
George Welsh's Cavaliers entered Saturday's home opener with Wake Forest looking more like a horde of sick children than a football team -- a defense devastated by injury, a secondary burned alive against Clemson and a passing offense unable to strike down the field. But the Cav coach, who has confronted more than his fair share of adversity in his 18 years in Charlottesville, managed to dig deep enough into the medicine chest and unearth the solution to all Cavalier ills: Thomas Jones. In front of the record-breaking crowd of 50,000 at the revamped Scott Stadium, Jones did his best Heisman pose -- juking, sliding, cutting and steamrolling his way to 164 rushing yards and three scores in a 35-7 Cavalier triumph.
In an ACC match-up that proved to be as tenacious as expected, the Virginia men's soccer team battled Wake Forest to a 1-1 tie. "It was a hard-fought game," Virginia coach George Gelnovatch said.
RALEIGH, N.C. -- In the preseason, coach April Heinrichs anointed her Cavalier women's soccer team the best in the impressive history of the program.
