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The phone call that unlocked a secret weapon decades before historic season

1 week ago | cavalierdaily.com | Michael Liebermann

The secret weapon languished in the backyard, and yet no one was using it. It was lille having a cutting-edge driver nestled in your golf bag, the only one in the world, and instead teeing off with your partner’s rusted 7-iron. This, of course, astonished Coach Bowen Sargent. So when he took over the Virginia men’s golf program in September 2004, he set out to remedy it. He only had three days from starting his new job until the first tournament of the season. It made for a tight agenda.
Scott Stadium tagged to host 2026 NCAA Men’s Lacrosse Championships

1 month ago | cavalierdaily.com | Michael Liebermann

The event, for the first time since 2002, will unfold at a campus stadium Scott Stadium will host the 2026 NCAA Men’s Lacrosse Championships May 23-25, the athletic department announced Saturday. The Division I semifinals will happen May 23 and Division II and III finals May 24. The Division I final will be held May 25.
Scott Stadium tagged to host 2026 NCAA Men’s Lacrosse Championships

1 month ago | cavalierdaily.com | Michael Liebermann

The event, for the first time since 2002, will unfold at a campus stadium Scott Stadium will host the 2026 NCAA Men’s Lacrosse Championships May 23-25, the athletic department announced Saturday. The Division I semifinals will happen May 23 and Division II and III finals May 24. The Division I final will be held May 25.
HUYNH: Virginia’s proposed ‘whippets’ law is laughable

1 month ago | cavalierdaily.com | Viet Huynh

The General Assembly needs different measures to keep Virginians safe Laughing gas is no laughing matter. Despite its clear dangers, nitrous oxide could be freely purchased on the Corner to customers of any age — making it easier for University students to buy a dose than a head of cabbage. Still-evolving research surrounding laughing gas, also known as “whippets,” already shows the substance’s harmful and even lethal effects.
Virginia men’s lacrosse, after season-ending loss, faces offseason angst

1 month ago | cavalierdaily.com | Michael Liebermann

Saturday’s loss to No. 9 Duke, another tally in a bewildering losing streak and the cap on a bewildering season, sent Virginia into the offseason The lacrosse stick’s end dangled from its other three quarters. How, precisely, it had reached its snapped state seemed unclear. The act had been hidden by a torrent of blue jerseys and their ensuing dog pile. Senior defenseman Ben Wayer, eyeblack smudged and eyes burning, walked away.
Virginia men’s lacrosse, after season-ending loss, faces offseason angst

1 month ago | cavalierdaily.com | Michael Liebermann

Saturday’s loss to No. 9 Duke, another tally in a bewildering losing streak and the cap on a bewildering season, sent Virginia into the offseason The lacrosse stick’s end dangled from its other three quarters. How, precisely, it had reached its snapped state seemed unclear. The act had been hidden by a torrent of blue jerseys and their ensuing dog pile. Senior defenseman Ben Wayer, eyeblack smudged and eyes burning, walked away.
Live tracker: the men’s basketball offseason

1 month ago | cavalierdaily.com | Michael Liebermann |Emory Huffman |Xander Tilock

Following the comings and goings of a monumental offseason Editor’s Note: This article was first published March 19 and will be updated throughout the men’s basketball offseason. Virginia men’s basketball has, in the span of six months, seen a legend retire and his successor get fired. Now that saga has entered a new phase, full of coaching changes and transfer portal turnover and recruiting battles. The offseason is here. And it is a mammoth one.
Feeding my homesickness

2 months ago | cavalierdaily.com | Amanda Chung

As I walked to Wilson Hall for a Monday 9 a.m. statistics lecture, I did not expect to spend the class sobbing. And yet, there I was, mid-class, staring at my laptop screen and blinking through tears while my professor blissfully droned on about distribution curves. The culprit? A picture my mom sent of stir-fried fish cakes, glistening with sesame oil and plated next to a scoop of white rice. It was simple, familiar and exactly how I liked it.
Live tracker: the men’s basketball offseason

2 months ago | cavalierdaily.com | Michael Liebermann |Emory Huffman |Xander Tilock

Editor’s Note: This article was first published March 19 and will be updated throughout the men’s basketball offseason. Virginia men’s basketball has, in the span of six months, seen a legend retire and his successor get fired. Now that saga has entered a new phase, full of coaching changes and transfer portal turnover and recruiting battles. The offseason is here. And it is a mammoth one. Almost two decades have passed since uncertainty hovered around the program like this.
Desperate for a watershed, men’s lacrosse falls just short against No. 8 Syracuse

Mar 29, 2025 | cavalierdaily.com | Michael Liebermann

Virginia submitted a fantastic performance, by all accounts, but lost in the final few minutes Coach Lars Tiffany gazed at the scoreboard, hands on hips. He stared it down for a long second. Then he turned and waded into the center of a downbeat huddle. Not long before, he had prowled the sideline, shouting instructions as a tie game rocketed into its final five minutes, the stands rattling behind him. Virginia, tied with No. 8 Syracuse, needed to score.