David Teel is a longtime Virginia sports writer and columnist. He's a member of the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame and the U.S. Basketball Writers Association Hall of Fame and has won the National Sports Media Association's Virginia Sportswriter of the Year award a record 15 times.
The national player of the year scored 30 points, snared 14 rebounds and doinked the left side of his head on the backboard. Yet Blake Griffin was eclipsed Friday night....
Virginia Tech players were out of control during the first half of the Gator Bowl, and Hokies quarterback Marcus Vick should have been ejected for stomping on a prone Louisville...
Craig Littlepage forgives Dave Leitao. Those recruiting battles years ago? Ancient history. That speeding ticket Thursday on Route 250? No sweat. "This appointment feels right," Littlepage said Sunday as he...
The testimonials cascaded like they did at Uncle Fred's retirement bash, only this time everyone was sober. The occasion was North Carolina's 96-68 first-round NCAA tournament demolition of Oakland on...
It's time to end the courthouse mud wrestling, political posturing and PR spinning, the daily doses of which are less palatable than a raw egg breakfast. No more threats, no...
Kansas, Michigan, UCLA, St. John's, Oklahoma State and Cincinnati are among college basketball's royalty. But this season they share another distinction: Each has lost a player, at least temporarily, to...
A countdown of 20th Century sports shows that Army-Navy football, sports' purest rivalry, has been contested 100 times. Ninety-nine was a vintage retirement year, with farewells from Michael Jordan, Wayne...
Every conceivable stroke of good fortune, from the ankle that Michael Vick didn't break to the games that Tennessee and Nebraska didn't win, went Virginia Tech's way this season. But...
Army and Navy enter their annual football clash Saturday with a combined 17 victories in 20 games this season. But even when the Cadets and Midshipmen are not in the...
An Olympic medal is just another piece of hardware for many big-time tennis players with major championships on their resume. Not so for America's Lindsay Davenport, a 20-year-old struggling to...