
Press Conference: Mike London
UVa. football coach Mike London talks with members of the news media in advance of the Cavs’ game at Virginia Tech on Saturday.

UVa. football coach Mike London talks with members of the news media in advance of the Cavs’ game at Virginia Tech on Saturday.

It’s official: Maryland is headed to the Big Ten. The University of Virginia should make the same move, for reasons at least partly similar to those that the folks in College Park had to consider.

Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and university presidents Ed Ayers, Ángel Cabrera, John Broderick and Teresa Sullivan today marked the official launch of the Governor’s Holiday Hoops Classic Food Drive to benefit Virginia food banks.

Virginia men’s head basketball coach Tony Bennett has announced the signing of guards London Perrantes (Woodland Hills, Calif.) and Devon Hall (Virginia Beach, Va.) to National Letters of Intent with the Cavaliers.

Junior Bryon Allen drained a 3-pointer with a minute left to break a 57-all deadlock then sank a pair of free throws in the waning seconds, and the George Mason men’s basketball team held on to defeat the University of Virginia, 63-59, in both teams’ season opener before a sold-out Patriot Center crowd Friday night.

University of Virginia Center for Politics founder Larry Sabato has made his final call in the 2012 presidential election: Barack Obama.

UVa. football coach Mike London talks with the media in advance of the Cavs’ game this weekend with N.C. State.

If Joelle Hackney had had her way when she was 18, she would have started college 2,400 miles from Eastern Mennonite University (EMU), at Humboldt State in Arcata, California. But by the summer after her 2001 graduation from Stuart’s Draft High School in Augusta County, Va., Humboldt’s steep tuition and other logistical considerations forced her to put that dream on hold.

The League of American Bicyclists conferred a bronze award on EMU, making EMU the third university in Virginia, following Virginia Commonwealth (silver award) and George Mason (also a bronze), to be recognized by the League as a bicycle friendly university.

When you’re asked about your team’s ongoing five-game losing streak, and your response is to start talking about how the program is having success in the classroom and in other areas of life, well, you’re pretty much Ted Roof on your way out the door at Duke, right?
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