
Press Conference: New Jacksonville Jaquar Luke Bowanko
UVa. offensive lineman Luke Bowanko talks with reporters after being drafted by the Jacksonville Jaquars in the 2014 NFL Draft.

UVa. offensive lineman Luke Bowanko talks with reporters after being drafted by the Jacksonville Jaquars in the 2014 NFL Draft.

No. 11 Virginia (10-8) will host No. 18 Princeton (12-6) on Sunday (May 9) at 4 p.m. at Klöckner Stadium in Charlottesville, Va., in the second round of the 2014 NCAA Women’s Lacrosse Championship.

The VCU Board of Visitors on Friday approved a budget for 2014-2015 that includes a modest 3.5 percent tuition increase, a new $25-per-semester library fee and no increase in the mandatory university fees.

A new clinical trial at Virginia Commonwealth University is studying the safety and effectiveness of a new device for patients diagnosed with moderate to severe heart failure.

UVa. sophomore left-handed pitcher Nathan Kirby (So., Midlothian, Va.) has accepted an invitation from USA Baseball to play for the 2014 USA Baseball Collegiate National Team this summer.

The No. 1-ranked UVa. baseball returns from its week-long break for final exams Wednesday (May 7) with a midweek game against No. 22 Liberty. Game time is 6 p.m. at Davenport Field.

Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe announced today that after almost seven years Virginia poultry exports will resume to the People’s Republic of China.

The UVa. women’s lacrosse team (10-8) earned the No. 6 seed in the 2014 NCAA Women’s Lacrosse Championship and will be hosting first and second round games on Friday, May 9 and Sunday, May 11, at Klöckner Stadium after earning an at-large bid in the 26-team field.

Black Swan Books & Music team with the SWAG Writers Reading Series to present a reading by fiction writers Clifford Garstang (What the Zhang Boys Know and In an Uncharted Country) and Steve Weddle (Country Hardball).

The Radford University team of Justin Witten of Radford, Va., and Will Bowling of Fincastle, Va., won the FLW College Fishing Northern Conference tournament on Smith Mountain Lake Saturday.
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