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.
Dave Schultz couldn't be here Wednesday night. But the life he dedicated to freestyle wrestling was honored as his protege and friend, Kurt Angle, won the Olympic gold in the...
The U.S. women's soccer team plotted for more than a year to defeat nemesis Norway in the Olympics. Mission accomplished--with a caveat. Sunday's dramatic and historic 2-1 overtime victory didn't...
Ryoka Tamura was a bigger favorite than Michael Johnson. Entering the Olympics, the 4-foot-9-inch, 99-pound college student from Tokyo had not lost a judo bout since the gold-medal contest at...
The accusations were whispered in 1992 at Barcelona. Four years later at Atlanta, they are virtually shouted. China's female Olympians, especially the swimmers, are nothing more than steroid-produced clones of...
Jonathan McBoo has schoolboy basketball coaches agog. He is 7-foot-2. He is lean, strong and smart, the complete athlete. But McBoo has no interest in basketball. He prefers math and...
The NCAA prompted rampant speculation Friday that Executive Director Dick Schultz had lost his job because of his role in rules violations at Virginia. The dire talk began after an...
Ben Hogan is 77 years old and in failing health. Still, by 9:30 Monday morning, he was at work in the Ft. Worth factory that manufactures Hogan golf clubs. He...