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CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA. -- The Virginia and Duke football teams spent most of Saturday's game without their marquee offensive players. Cavalier quarterback Matt Schaub and Blue Devil tailback Alex Wade watched most of the game from the sidelines, nursing injuries. Judging by the results, Virginia can still win without Schaub. Whether the Blue Devils can win, with or without Wade, remains to be seen.
Some things don't take a years' worth of aging well.
If Virginia football coach Al Groh wants his bench kept warm this year, he's going to have to find someone new to do it for him. Matt Schaub is going to be otherwise occupied.
This Saturday night you could fight for a booth at the Loop, fight for a Beast Light in Kilgo quad or watch a zombie fight a shark in a gory, underwater battle to the death.
The U.S. Women's Open was overwhelmed by a youth movement, particularly that of 13-year old amateur Michelle Wie and eventual champion, 24-year old Hilary Lunke.
Closer than ever to completing a season with a seemingly endless distance run, thrown and vaulted, the men's and women's track teams don't have too much farther to go.
The men's and women's track teams had a weekend of extremes in Philadelphia at the Penn Relays, collegiate track and field's most high-profile competition. The women's squad achieved the lion's share of the accolades as they trumped several school records in relays and the steeplechase. The men had strong performances in the vaults, but endured bad luck and poor showings in the first leg of both the 4x800 and 4x1500 relays.
When the men's and women's track teams head north to Philadelphia to compete Thursday in the Penn Relays, the basic rules and customs of track and field will still apply. The shots will be the same weight, the races will be the same length, and the hurdles will be just as high as they have been at every other track meet so far this year. The basics of competition will be old hat for the Blue Devils.
For the men's and women's track teams, numbers can tell the story of what happened this weekend at the ACC Championships at N.C. State. The one number that doesn't tell the story, though, is eight; both teams finished eighth out of nine teams in the conference, but still consider the weekend a success.
In sports, teamwork and individual accomplishment are often set in opposition to one another. The synergy and communication of the offensive line bears little resemblance to the solitary pressure of the 18th green.
At a time of the year when most duffers are dusting off their clubs and starting to think about tee times, the women's golf team had pulled down two victories already going into this past weekend. The reigning national champions brought that number to three this weekend, with a convincing win in the Liz Murphey Collegiate Classic in Athens, Ga.
During a season that typically takes it far afield to various meets across the country, the track teams relish their single annual home meet, the Duke Invitational, as an opportunity to show their skills off on campus.
Pat Summitt and Gail Goestenkors have both been here before. But even though Duke's women's basketball coach is getting somewhat comfortable in the Final Four, she comes up against a Tennessee head coach for whom cutting down the nets feels routine.
After last weekend's rain-soaked victory at the Bryan National Collegiate golf tournament, the top-ranked women's golf team is hoping for better weather and similar results when they travel to Athens, Ga., this weekend. The defending national champion Blue Devils are competing in the Liz Murphey Collegiate Classic, hosted by the University of Georgia.
Milli Vanilli once famously lip-synched, "Blame it on the rain."
Yesterday, the men's tennis team did what it has done unfailingly since 1996; heac coach Jay Lapidus' squad beat an ACC opponent. This time, the win was a convincing 6-1 victory over conference cellar dwellers Maryland, Duke's 50th consecutive regular season ACC victory.
After an impressive finish to the indoor season and a respite from training over spring break, the track teams asserted themselves at two in-state meets this past weekend. The teams' throwers attended the Charlotte 49ers Classic, while a contingent of sprinters and middle distance runners from the womens' team ventured across town to North Carolina Central University for the NCCU Invitational.
In the men's lacrosse home opener last night, the Virginia Military Institute scored the first goal of the season at Koskinen Stadium. The Blue Devils responded to this home invasion with ferocity, tearing off a 14-goal run that lasted 30 minutes and put the game out of reach for the visiting Keydets, who lost the contest 17-5.
Seven members of the indoor track teams competed in Blacksburg, Va., this weekend at the Virginia Tech Last Chance Meet. One competitor, sophomore pole vaulter Jeff Buttaccio, earned himself another chance. Buttaccio will compete at IC4A Championships in Boston in March, along with 12 other members of the men's indoor track team.
Those observing the outdoor track teams this season can expect a familiar cast of characters; they can only hope for similar results.
