Tag: Texas Tech

Richmond basketball falls on road at Texas Tech, 85-70
The Richmond men’s basketball team had its four-game winning streak snapped by Big 12-foe Texas Tech, 85-70, on a snowy Tuesday night in Lubbock.

Can Virginia Tech upset Ohio State? Oh, yeah
Virginia Tech football had this Saturday circled on its calendar from the moment the 2014 schedule was released earlier this year. Ohio State, in the Horseshoe, a chance for the Hokies to get a program-defining road win against a national power.
Is Virginia Tech vulnerable in William and Mary season opener?
Virginia Tech coach Frank Beamer made official over the weekend what a lot of us thought was inevitable in naming Texas Tech transfer Michael Brewer the starting quarterback for the Hokies’ opener with William and Mary this weekend.
Michael Brewer named Virginia Tech starting quarterback
Virginia Tech head football coach Frank Beamer announced Saturday that junior transfer Michael Brewer will lead the Hokies as starting quarterback in just one week against William & Mary.

What does Virginia Tech do at quarterback?
Mark Leal has been a sort of quarterback-in-waiting at Virginia Tech, biding his time behind 2014 fourth-round NFL draft pick Logan Thomas the past three years, holding the clipboard, taking second-team snaps, always at the ready, just in case.

Marathon: UVA outlasts TCU in 15 innings, 3-2
Daniel Pinero hit a liner to deep center with one out in the bottom of the 15th, and pinch-runner Thomas Woodruff tagged up and scored from third with the winning run for UVA in a dramatic 3-2 College World Series win over TCU on Tuesday.

College World Series: UVA vs. TCU preview
The UVA baseball team takes on TCU Tuesday evening in a winners’ bracket matchup in the NCAA College World Series at TD Ameritrade Park Omaha. Game time is 8 p.m. ET/7 p.m. CT in Omaha, Neb.

Big Papi! UVA takes down Ole Miss on walkoff, 2-1
Mike Papi rode a 3-2, two-out pitch to the gap in right-center to score pinch-runner Thomas Woodruff from second base, lifting UVA to a 2-1 win over Ole Miss in the College World Series Sunday night in Omaha, Neb.

College World Series: UVA vs. Ole Miss preview
The UVA baseball team begins the NCAA College World Series Sunday when it battles Ole Miss at TD Ameritrade Park Omaha. Game time between the Rebels and the third-seeded Cavaliers is 8 p.m. ET/7 p.m. CT in Omaha, Neb.

College World Series: Road through Omaha not easy for UVA
The regional wasn’t easy for UVA, on paper, with an SEC team as the #2 seed and the #14 team in the final regular-season national polls as the #3.
Chris Graham: Marcus Smart incident highlights ugly sides to sports
Oklahoma State basketball star Marcus Smart confronted, then shoved a Texas Tech fan in the stands in the waning seconds of the Cowboys’ 65-61 loss to the Red Raiders Saturday night, the fourth in a row and fifth in six games for the former Top 10 team.

Six UVa. football players named to Phil Steele Midseason All-ACC team
At the midpoint at what is shaping up to be another losing season for UVa. football, six Cavs players were named to the Phil Steele Midseason All-ACC team.