You know you’re good when you can come into a hostile environment and overcome it, not once, but several times. You know you’re good when you...

WASHINGTON An hour before the game against the Phoenix Suns, Washington Wizards guard Nick Young was watching the Suns’ previous game in the Wizards’...

Virginia Tech’s victory over Wake Forest means everything, for the moment. It will mean nothing at the end of the men’s basketball season unless...

The end of the college-athletics world does not seem far away. Last week, the NCAA passed emergency legislation declaring seventhand eighth-grade boys...

CHARLOTTESVILLE Mustapha Farrakhan had it right about the shots he was missing. He wasn’t going to stop shooting. “I tried to think that the...

Seventeen coaches have won more NFL games than Tony Dungy. Many coaches have a better playoff record and have won more Super Bowls. No NFL coach has been...

If you push Malcolm Delaney, count on getting pushed back. If you lean into him and rest your elbow in his ribs when he is dribbling, count on Delaney...

Boston College got it right. The Cleveland Browns got it wrong. Jeff Jagodzinski had a very good job as Boston College’s football coach. Boston College...

Trailing Xavier 58-32 with 13:24 left to play, the Virginia Cavaliers tried something different. They came out of a timeout and brought the ball up the...

Before the big ball drops in Times Square tonight, we should consider some of the winners and losers in the 2008 year in sports. Tough guy of the year...

With little to play for entering their game against Philadelphia, the Washington Redskins played as if the season, the playoffs and their jobs were at...

Tough, resilent Spiders produced gem of a season. Check out our video and slideshows.

Can you say overpowering? Can you say overwhelming? Can you say stunning performance? The Richmond Spiders didn’t have to say any of those things...

Montana is big-sky country, the fourth-largest state in terms of square miles, 147,046, but 44th in population with just 957,861 people in all that space....

If Clinton Portis were a high school student, his report card would contain the note, “A delight to teach.“ Portis is bright, funny and entertaining....

Rare is the basketball game in which play must be delayed because of problems with the sun. But when the VCU and Richmond men get together for their annual...

Too many coaches and fans have a common lament for the lack of success of their college football programs: We can’t recruit enough dumb guys. They...

When the Redskins’ field goal unit needed to contribute in the first half, it did not. When the Redskins’ defense needed to stop the Baltimore...

BLACKSBURG Big game. Big stadium. Big disappointment. “Our motto all year has been, ‘Leave no doubt’,“ said Dinwiddie quarterback...

The Rose Bowl is where Southern California plays next if it beats UCLA tomorrow. What a pity. The “granddaddy of all bowls” pales in comparison...

Plaxico Burress is the NFL’s leading lunkhead, a Pro Bowl player in terms of recklessness and foolishness. But the New York Giants wide receiver...

Al Groh wanted to mess with the minds of the Virginia Tech defense yesterday. So, Groh started a cornerback at quarterback. Then he watched as that cornerback,...

Give the University of Virginia players credit for this: They stick together. On a day when the defense could have pointed all its collective fingers at...

To get from Birmingham, Ala., to College Park, Md., as quickly as possible is not difficult. That’s why airplanes exist. If you are a college athlete,...

Xavier Henry, a chiseled, 6-6 Adonis from Oklahoma City, announced yesterday that he will play basketball at the University of Memphis next year. Henry...

You probably have seen this: A men’s college basketball player takes a pass in the corner. He pauses, looks at his feet, then dribbles backward before...

No United States president has thought it necessary to add the position of secretary of sports to his cabinet. Such a post is long overdue. Some of the...

Success in football depends on a few simple principles: blocking and tackling, not giving up big plays, running the ball effectively and having a quarterback...

Fashion critics would not call the Redskins’ all-burgundy look offensive. But the uniforms provided no offense for the Redskins.

The inescapable conclusion regarding football at the University of Virginia is that a change is necessary. Al Groh is the coach and controls every aspect...