The NBA: where the amazingly lame happens
Like many basketball fans out there, I don't like the NBA. It takes everything good about the college game and ruins it. The season is too long, the players are too nice and the teams are too soft.
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Like many basketball fans out there, I don't like the NBA. It takes everything good about the college game and ruins it. The season is too long, the players are too nice and the teams are too soft.
• The springtime steeplechase horse races at Foxfield outside of Charlottesville, Va., are this Saturday. While the jockeys and horses will race beneath the April sun and across the springtime greenery, spectators will race to the nearest Lilly Pulitzer and Brooks Brothers to sport the most pastels and patterns. They will also full-on GALLOP to the liquor store. What, the beer isn't for the horses?
It's safe to say that few people wish they were Washington Nationals fans. I mean, why board the sinking ship that is the Nationals' franchise, a team that's tanked since its inaugural season in the District of Columbia.
• Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger got dropped from more than just the sexual assault charges from a Georgia college student. A local company that markets food products endorsed by local sports stars dropped Big Ben from its beef jerky sponsorship. As Uncle Frank from "Home Alone" would say, "Look what you did, you little jerk."
The University of Richmond baseball team once again came from behind to defeat its cross-town rival Virginia Commonwealth University by a score of 9-8 on Tuesday night. The game was Richmond's second victory over the Rams this season, marking a 2-0 sweep for the Farm Bureau Black & Blue Classic.
Greedy. Stupid. Disastrous.
"I lost it all." Yeah, as you can probably guess, that line didn't go over too well with my mom. Following that up with the words "online" and "gambling" didn't do much to help my case either. So how am I still attending the University of Richmond? How did I weasel my way out of being berated for my mild addiction to sports betting? The answer is simple: CentSports.com.
The University of Richmond synchronized swim team quietly placed at the U.S. Collegiate Nationals at Stanford University earlier this month. The team accomplished this feat with a roster of only four women, squaring off against schools with up to six times more swimmers.
The No. 14 University of Richmond women's basketball team upset No. 3 University of Delaware 67-49 on Thursday night during the opening game in the Women's National Invitational Tournament.
The only thing colder than the snow storm outside the Robins Center Saturday was the Richmond women's basketball team during the second half of its 79-60 loss to Duquesne University.
The University of Richmond women's basketball team defeated Western Carolina University 65-42 in its season opener on Friday.
The University of Richmond field hockey team defeated Georgetown University 2-0 Sunday afternoon with goals from sophomore Katelin Peterson and senior Sarah Blythe-Wood.