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Two-time Senior Open of Virginia champion Buck Brittain of Tazewell posted a 3-underpar 67 on Monday at The Omni Homestead Resort’s Cascades Course to set the pace during stroke-play qualifying at the 72nd Virginia State Golf Association Senior Amateur Championship.
Stick around for the end of this show as Hootie interviews world-renowned ultra athlete Ray Zahab, who has run across the Sahara Desert (documentary with Matt Damon), 111 consecutive days with 40 to 45 miles per day; and braved minus-65 degree temperatures in races in Siberia and other frozen tundras. Hootie also talks UVA football with Dr. David Diduch, who explains the complications of “turf toe,” what it is, how it happens, and what are the recovery times for football players.
Jowon Briggs, a four-star defensive lineman out of Cincinnati, has practiced so well that he has been working with the starters.
NFL Preseason football kicks off for several teams Thursday night, and you can catch all of your favorite former Virginia players in action throughout the rest of the month.
Former Virginia standout Lauren Greenlief and current UVA sophomore Haeley Wotnosky did not advance to match play after 36 holes of stroke play at the U.S. Women’s Amateur Championship.
With all the positives in Virginia’s training camp, including eight starters returning from a nasty defense, one of the ACC’s most dynamic quarterbacks, and having been picked as media favorite to win the league’s Coastal Division, the Cavaliers still have some problem-solving to do.
This week, Hootie talks to Phony Bennett, Chris Dembitz, from the famous Twitter account “If Tony Tweeted,” talking UVA basketball and some of Phony’s famous tweets.
There’s not a linebacker in the country that got his hands on more pass attempts than Virginia’s Charles Snowden in 2018, and the third-year standout is hoping to translate that success over into another statistical category this season.
The UVA women’s soccer team enters the 2019 season as the ninth-ranked team nationally according to the preseason poll released by the United Soccer Coaches (USC) on Tuesday.
Virginia men’s soccer is ranked 12th in the country according to the United Soccer Coaches Preseason Poll.
Wally Walker shot his way into legendary status as a Wahoo basketball star during the 1975-76 season, as he led Virginia to its first ACC Tournament championship.
Bronco Mendenhall will always remember the whistle. Not a coaching whistle, mind you, one of the tools of his trade. Rather a distinct, shrill reverberation that pierced the air of stadiums from little league football to LaVell Edwards Stadium at BYU.
Virginia will be looking for its fifth straight victory against ACC Coastal Division rival Duke when the teams square off at Scott Stadium in October.
Miami hasn’t won a conference title in football since taking the Big East crown in 2003. The Hurricanes likely won’t end that streak this season in the ACC, but new head coach Manny Diaz vows that things will be different at “The U.”
Allisyn Terry of Leesburg and Cheryl Grigg of Sea Island, Ga., were the only players to break par on the Omni Homestead Resort’s Old Course on Monday, and they shared the qualifying medal for the 62nd VSGA Senior Women’s Amateur Championship. Each shot 1-under 71.
Becca DiNunzio and Rory Weinfurther have spent the last several years crossing paths in Virginia State Golf Association Championships and playing as teammates representing Virginia in interstate events.
Hopefully in September, I’ll get to fulfill a bucket-list item, in covering a game at Notre Dame when Virginia makes its first visit ever to South Bend for a showdown with the Irish.
Under a burning Virginia sun, the two youngest finalists in 89 years battled to the end in the 106th VSGA Amateur Championship at Keswick Hall’s Full Cry golf course.
For a football program that has only been resurrected for a decade, Old Dominion has come a long way. Head coach Bobby Wilder built the program from scratch as far back as 2007, a full two seasons before his Monarchs would take the field.
When Jimbo Fisher took Texas A&M’s money and ran, Florida State fans managed to get excited after Willie Taggart was named the new Seminoles’ coach.