Hoops springs eternal

Buddy Boeheim goes to the line. Virginia leads Syracuse by two, 29 seconds on the clock. Boeheim makes the first free throw. He makes the second. 69-69. A few seconds later, down at the other end of the court, UVA’s trusted floor marshal Kihei Clark pokes his way into the paint, and whips a pass […]

Hoos ready

This Saturday, the Virginia Cavaliers will return to a full-capacity Scott Stadium for the first time in almost two years. The team will face considerable opposition if it wants to repeat its ACC Coastal Division-winning 2019 performance: Most preseason polls have UVA finishing fifth of eight teams in the Coastal, trailing UNC, Miami, Pitt, and […]

They’re back

This week, more than 27,000 undergraduate and graduate students descended on Charlottesville in preparation for the first week of UVA’s fall semester. The two largest spikes in COVID cases in the city occurred during the first two weeks of the fall semester in 2020 and the first two weeks of the spring semester in 2021. […]

You’ll never walk alone

This fall, UVA will debut a new app, Rave Guardian, designed to help keep students safe on Grounds.     The app is a one-stop shop that allows users to read safety alerts, locate phone numbers for SafeRide, Dean on Call, and CAPS on Call, submit tips to the school’s Just Report It tip line, […]

Accountability approaches

Last Tuesday, Integrity First for America hosted a program to remember August 11 and 12. IFA is a nonprofit and nonpartisan organization that represents the plaintiffs in the upcoming Sines v. Kessler federal lawsuit, where August 11 and 12 victims are suing the organizers and participants of Unite the Right. The trial will take place […]

Mask on

On Friday, UVA announced that all students, faculty, staff, and contract workers, both vaccinated and unvaccinated, will be required to wear a mask when on UVA property. The policy took effect at the beginning of this week, and the school says it’ll re-evaluate in September. The university made this announcement as cases of the delta […]

From UVA to NBA

Last Thursday, three UVA men’s basketball alums took the first step in their NBA careers. Trey Murphy III, the 6-foot-9, 206-pound guard, was drafted 17th overall to the New Orleans Pelicans, making him the 11th first-round pick from UVA and the ninth UVA player to be drafted under Tony Bennett. Murphy played at Rice University […]

Looking good

The summer before her second year, Greer Gill planned to hold a field hockey camp at her former high school. Gill, a UVA field hockey player, teamed up with four of her closest friends—Division I field hockey players at various schools—to make graphics and marketing materials for their camp, all of which included their names […]

Books are back

“We have a book town,” says Peter Manno, manager of the Friends of the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library. The group is excited to welcome community members into the former Northside Library building this weekend, for the first book sale Friends of JMRL has held since the onset of the pandemic last year. “The sales are a […]

Dog days

Darron Breeden lives a double life. During the week, he teaches business and IT classes to high school students. On the weekend, he stuffs his face.  Breeden, an Orange, Virginia, native, is the nation’s third-ranked competitive eater, per Major League Eating. On July 4, he’ll be going for gold in the Nathan’s Famous July Fourth […]