Rocco pleased with incoming class of football players
With National Signing Day in the books, Richmond football coach Danny Rocco is excited about his new class of players and said he felt his team filled its most dire needs on signing day.
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With National Signing Day in the books, Richmond football coach Danny Rocco is excited about his new class of players and said he felt his team filled its most dire needs on signing day.
Sports are mostly an exercise in extreme catharsis. You rarely remember the times of mediocrity for your favorite teams. Fortunately, the ecstatic highs stay with you as joyful memories and happy associations of certain times of year. But the bitter lows stay with you much longer and more vividly than anything else in the realm of sports enthusiasm.
A former University of Richmond men's lacrosse player was sentenced Monday to at least nine months in county jail for the distribution of marijuana, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported.
“Whatever! We’ll see you in the tournament!”
The Richmond Spider basketball family has made an important addition this month: an actual spider.
For a few hours Sunday, a man who grew up seven minutes from University of Richmond will have the full attention of the United States. Quarterback Russell Wilson will lead the Seattle Seahawks in their quest for back-to-back Super Bowls, one of the rarest accomplishments in sports, as his brother Harry, a Richmond alumnus, watches from the stands.
The University of Richmond Spiders will attempt to win their first road game of the season across town at the Siegel Center on Saturday.
Richmond opened its game against Duquesne on a 23-6 run, including a 13-1 streak, and never surrendered its double-digit lead in its blowout win Wednesday night.
“Players,” head coach Michael Shafer said after pausing to gather his thoughts. “Players win basketball games.”
All of the varsity locker rooms in the Robins Center, with the exception of the football and basketball locker rooms, are without ceilings while the heating, ventilation and air conditioning system is remodeled, said David Walsh, deputy athletic director.
When the buzzer sounded Sunday afternoon, the scoreboard in the Robins Center favored the Spiders heavily. Not only had Richmond's women's basketball team routed George Mason, but the Spiders limited the A-10 conference’s top scorer to just 10 points, her lowest total of the season.
Two nights after a heartbreaking double-overtime loss when the Spiders’ season seemed to have gotten away, Kendall Anthony did his best Stephen Curry impression and sent the Davidson Wildcats back to Carolina with a loss.
After 40 minutes of Richmond's best basketball, the Spiders win 89-63. This win was huge for the Spiders and could potentially save their season. Thanks for following along.
On a brisk, October morning, 31 University of Richmond baseball players congregated on the frosty outfield grass of Pitt Field, huddling into a tangle of wind-milling arms and high-kicking legs as they warmed up for practice. After completing their stretches, the players jogged back to the dugout. Except one.
Despite a dreadful first half in which the Spiders managed only 17 points, Richmond rallied to force two overtimes, but ultimately lost on the road to the George Washington University Colonials on Thursday night.
University of Richmond’s stingy defense, led by Alonzo Nelson-Ododa, overwhelmed St. Bonaventure Sunday afternoon and a second-half surge turned a close game into a Spider blowout.
3:37: Richmond leads 51-39 at the final media timeout. I have a hard time seeing the Bonnies scoring 12 more points in this game.
University of Richmond's men’s basketball team limped into its conference schedule on Saturday with little momentum and lost a blowout to Davidson to extend the Spiders’ losing streak to three.
University of Richmond's women's basketball team has won four of its last five games and will begin conference play against St. Bonaventure this Tuesday. The Spiders are getting stronger and more formidable as the season progresses.
Richmond basketball battled to a 65-63 victory over the Pepperdine Wave at “The World’s Most Famous” arena, Madison Square Garden, on Saturday night.