Five Observations: Damn, we spent a lot of money to watch Virginia get waxed at Duke
My first UVA-Duke game in Cameron Indoor Stadium was 2014, a 69-65 Duke win on the school’s winter break.
My first UVA-Duke game in Cameron Indoor Stadium was 2014, a 69-65 Duke win on the school’s winter break.
There’s not much positive you can take from Virginia’s 73-48 bludgeoning by Duke Saturday in Cameron Indoor Stadium.
Word postgame is, Virginia, which we knew, didn’t get back from its road trip to Boston College until late, late, late on Thursday, so late it was enough to make Thursday an off-day.
Jack O’Connor got touched up, again, this time for six runs, four earned, in three and two-thirds innings, and UMass handed Virginia its first loss of the season, 10-5, on Saturday at Disharoon Park.
For the first time in a decade, AFP editor Chris Graham will be attending a Virginia game without a credential hanging around his neck.
Virginia needed a run in the ninth to stave off defeat, then got a walkoff RBI single from Henry Godbout to eek out a 4-3 win over UMass in the opener of a three-game series at Disharoon Park on Friday.
Cue the complaints from Duke Basketball Report about Virginia’s weak 2024-2025 conference strength of schedule.
A former postal carrier with the U.S. Postal Service in Richmond pleaded guilty yesterday to theft of mail.
I had to reference the court storm nonsense from last weekend that made Duke’s loss at Wake Forest more about the national conversation that we didn’t know we needed to have than about a team playing bad defense on the road.
Duke got out to an early 9-0 lead on Virginia, and never looked back on its way to a 73-54 win over the Cavaliers on Thursday.
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