Richmond football's season rides on JMU week
The Richmond Spiders will face a live-or-die situation against James Madison this weekend, as the losing team will likely lose all hopes of a playoff spot.
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The Richmond Spiders will face a live-or-die situation against James Madison this weekend, as the losing team will likely lose all hopes of a playoff spot.
Thousands of Spiders fans will fill the seats of the Robins Center this Friday night when the men’s basketball team takes the floor in their first game of the season, looking to improve on last season's disappointing record of 19-14.
The scene is set. Richmond is about to take on a nationally ranked team in a conference matchup at E. Clairborne Robins Stadium. Playoff and conference championship hopes are on the line. The teams line up for the opening kickoff.
Nancy Lieberman was working for ESPN during the National Basketball Association playoffs when she brought her son T.J. Cline to a game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Dallas Mavericks. Before she went to the green room to prepare for the television coverage, she left T.J. sitting on the sideline with the specific instruction to “just stay here” while she went to work. Minutes later, Lieberman looked over the shoulder of fellow Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame member Charles Barkley to see little T.J. doing the exact opposite of staying put. Cline had joined the lay-up lines with the San Antonio Spurs.
Athlete of the week: field hockey's Kelley Wentling
The Spiders stormed the field and the crowd roared thunderously as Rebecca Barry scored the game’s lone goal in sudden-death overtime to beat Massachusetts in Saturday’s Atlantic-10 Championship matchup.
Richmond’s conference championship hopes were diminished Saturday in Maine.
The Richmond Spiders will head to Maine this weekend to try to win their sixth straight game and continue to push toward a conference championship.
Michael Strauss, Richmond’s star quarterback, plans to return this season despite being told by team doctors that he would miss the rest of his final collegiate season, Strauss said.
Adrian Peterson, one of the NFL’s premier stars, has agreed to a plea deal approved by Montgomery County in Texas to avoid jail time for his felony child abuse charge, according to ESPN.
Athlete of the week: football's Omar Howard
It was a busy weekend for women’s soccer at Richmond this weekend, with a game Friday night against University of Massachusetts and Sunday afternoon against University of Rhode Island.
After being shut out by Duke on Saturday, the field hockey team bounced back and overpowered Davidson in Sunday’s regular season finale, led by a dominant effort by Rebecca Barry in her senior game.
A new floor was installed in the Robins Center basketball arena after last year’s effort to repair cracks failed.
There was energy in Robins Stadium on Saturday that the Richmond football team has not seen in years.
The game is over, and the final score is 10-9. Richmond hands Villanova its first conference loss of the season and makes a serious case for a playoff spot. The Spiders have put themselves in position for a possible conference championship, as long as they can continue to win.
Athlete of the week: soccer's Meaghan Carrigan
The next phase of the $17 million transformation of Richmond’s 42-year-old Robins Center, which began last year with the remodeling of the basketball arena, is nearly complete, but delays to the renovation of seven varsity sport locker rooms have become a frustration for athletes.
After a disappointing 2013-14 season that was plagued by injuries, Richmond’s women’s basketball team hopes to win the A-10 conference with strength and depth this season.
Evan Kelly led Richmond’s defense as it pushed around Elon’s offense in another blowout win for the Spiders on Saturday.