Teel Time: N.C. State transfer DeShawn Painter might well land back home at...
DeShawn Painter was never a full-time starter for North Carolina State’s basketball team. But his career arc was encouraging, marked by increased scoring, rebounding and playing time in each of his...
View ArticleFeedback for 11/23: Montgomery's pardon, basketball record, traffic, Black...
Montgomery pardoned After being pardoned by Gov. Bob McDonnell and freed from prison for a crime he did not commit, Johnathon Montgomery has been given permission to leave the state to spend...
View ArticleThursday's college roundup: Captains to induct six into hall of fame
Six new members will be inducted into the Christopher Newport Athletic Hall of Fame on Feb. 18 during halftime of a men’s basketball game against Averett. Baseball players Chris Phaup (2002-03) and...
View ArticleSunday's 9:15 p.m. Score Center, area roundup, UPDATE: Tar Heels edge ODU...
Best viewed in "single page" mode. If you know an unreported score, please e-mail sports@dailypress.com and/or call 757-247-4640. Past calendars are available on Sonny Dearth's blog at...
View ArticleTeel Time: Wake Forest president Hatch discusses ACC expansion, Notre Dame
Nathan Hatch was raised on the ACC. Len Chappell, Art Heyman, Billy Cunningham: Growing up in Columbia, S.C., Hatch watched many of the league’s basketball legends play against the hometown South...
View ArticleTeel Time: UVa's NCAA tournament credentials similar to Virginia Tech's last...
Four losses in six games, including back-to-back, disheartening home setbacks, have Virginia fans anxious about their Cavaliers’ NCAA tournament prospects. Even some Virginia Tech faithful are...
View ArticleFriday's ACC quarterfinal preview
ACC men's basketball tournament WHAT: Quarterfinals WHERE: Greensboro (N.C.) Coliseum Atlantic Coast Conference Duke Blue Devils Miami Hurricanes North Carolina State Wolfpack Florida State Seminoles...
View ArticleTeel Time: ACC basketball attendance falls for fourth consecutive season
From Austin Rivers to Michael Snaer to Karl Hess, ACC basketball has produced a madcap season. Too bad so few saw the games in-person. The conference’s regular-season attendance declined for the...
View ArticleSunday's 7:30 p.m. Score Center, area roundup, UPDATE: CNU volleyball wins...
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View ArticleWake Forest tops Virginia 16-10
Email Print Order Reprint Share This Text tool name tool goes here By HANK KURZ Jr. - AP Sports Writer By HANK KURZ Jr. Tags: CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- Chad Hedlund kicked three...
View ArticleTeel Time: Virginia Tech, Virginia pursuing Rice transfer Dylan Ennis to...
Virginia and Virginia Tech both figure to start top-shelf senior point guards next basketball season. The Cavaliers’ Jontel Evans is the ACC’s best returning on-the-ball defender, and the Hokies’...
View ArticleTeel Time: Commissioner Swofford explains ACC's new football, basketball...
The ACC on Friday unveiled future scheduling formats and divisions that will make Pittsburgh an annual football opponent of Virginia and Virginia Tech and continue the twice-a-season basketball...
View ArticleCAA aims to build on VCU Final Four run and recent success
Bruiser Flint tells the story that when he went recruiting not so long ago, his job was as much education as courtship. Kids, parents and coaches often didn't know Drexel and knew even less about the...
View ArticleKen Pomeroy's tempo-free stats all the rage in college basketball
As a Virginia Tech student during the early 1990s, Ken Pomeroy was struck by the Hokies' new-found football success. He attended home games and applauded the likes of Frank Beamer, Antonio Freeman and...
View ArticleHampton University women face daunting challenge in powerful Duke
DURHAM, N.C. — At Hampton University World Basketball Headquarters, they've been a mite peeved about their seed in the NCAA women's tournament since it was announced Monday. They have an advocate in...
View ArticleTeel Time: With NFL decisions made, Virginia Tech, Florida State rank as ACC...
Transfers and suspensions can radically alter depth charts. Coaching staffs can change on a dime, witness North Carolina’s purging of Butch Davis last July. But after Sunday’s deadline to declare for...
View ArticleFriday's college roundup: W&M, ODU win baseball openers by one run
Brett Koehler pitched one-hit ball for seven innings as host William and Mary opened its season Friday with a 2-1 win over Rhode Island at Plumeri Park. Tadd Bower was 2-for-4 with a run, and Michael...
View ArticleTeel Time: Virginia, Virginia Tech ADs address DeFilippo's contention that...
The athletic directors at Virginia and Virginia Tech on Monday said they are unaware of any ESPN influence in the ACC’s recent addition of Pittsburgh and Syracuse. Boston College athletic director...
View ArticleTeel Time: Can Florida State supplant UNC and Duke atop ACC basketball...
Whether Florida State can supplant Duke and North Carolina atop the ACC standings remains unknown, but the Seminoles’ fourth consecutive season with at least 10 conference victories elevates them and...
View ArticleTeel Time: ODU basketball, soccer would be competitive in Conference USA;...
Old Dominion’s move to Conference USA seems more inevitable by the hour, no matter the financial and competitive challenges. The Monarchs’ long-time home, the Colonial Athletic Association, is just...
View ArticleScott Barnes named chair of Division I Men's Basketball Committee for the...
(Source: NCAA - National Collegiate Athletic Association) CONTACT: David Worlock NCAA Championships and Alliances 317/917-6120 Division I Publish date: May 8, 2013 Scott Barnes named chair of Division...
View ArticleFriday's college roundup: No MEAC titles for ineligible teams
The Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference said teams that are ineligible to compete in NCAA postseason activities will not be eligible to compete for the conference’s regular-season championship title in...
View ArticleTeel Time: ACC needs Virginia or Virginia Tech to become bowl-eligible
ACC officials don’t care which, but they really need Virginia or Virginia Tech to win their final two regular-season football games to become bowl eligible. With North Carolina (6-4) banned from...
View ArticleTeel Time: Virginia Tech's football APR at all-time high; ODU women's...
The NCAA’s annual Academic Progress Rate report suffocates us with numbers. Multi-year averages, single-season rates, percentile ranks and public-private breakdowns. But as postseason bans for...
View ArticleTeel Time: Record talent drain hits ACC with North Carolina trio headed to NBA
ACC basketball’s talent drain continues at a record pace. With the expected news that Duke’s Austin Rivers and North Carolina’s Harrison Barnes and John Henson are entering the NBA draft, the...
View ArticleTeel Time: Forecasting Virginia Tech-Florida State ACC title game
At last year’s ACC football kickoff, two of 71 voting media picked Clemson to win the league. Fifty tabbed Florida State. Not our finest forecasting moment. But in the seven seasons since the advent...
View ArticleTeel Time: Preseason All-ACC basketball ballot includes UVa's Scott, four...
Later this week the ACC will announce that media attending the league's basketball tipoff Wednesday picked North Carolina to win the conference’s regular-season race. And for our next keen insight,...
View ArticleTeel Time: Notre Dame plays at Virginia in 2015, hosts Virginia Tech in 2016
Notre Dame will visit Virginia in 2015 and host Virginia Tech in 2016 as part of the Fighting Irish’s five annual football games against ACC teams. The conference announced Friday Notre Dame’s...
View ArticleWake AD hopes for more improvement in 2012-13
Email Print Order Reprint Share This Share Text tool name tool goes here By JOEDY McCREARY - AP Sports Writer By JOEDY McCREARY Tags: WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- Wake Forest's athletic programs took a...
View ArticleTeel Time: BYU loss continues Virginia Tech's woes against quality...
Virginia Tech’s 70-68 loss to Brigham Young on Wednesday exposed a consistent shortcoming in Seth Greenberg’s program and the primary reason his Hokies have earned only one NCAA tournament bid: An...
View ArticleTeel Time: How UNC football sanctions affect Virginia, Virginia Tech
Although NCAA sanctions barred North Carolina State’s 1973 basketball team from postseason, the ACC allowed the Wolfpack to compete in the conference tournament. Following an undefeated regular...
View ArticleTeel Time: UVa, Virginia Tech appear to catch breaks from ACC basketball...
As a program that loses its top scorer and rebounder, most-prolific 3-point shooter and best interior defender, Virginia does not need too thorny a schedule next season. The ACC appears to have helped...
View ArticleTeel Time: Florida State to Big 12 dust-up, TV deal with ESPN dominate ACC...
Virginia athletic director Craig Littlepage told me Wednesday that he expected this week’s ACC spring meetings to be routine. The chairman of Florida State’s Board of Trustees nuked that notion...
View ArticleTeel Time: Sampson's election to Basketball Hall of Fame long overdue
Thirty-plus years ago, Harrisonburg was the quintessential “sleepy college town.” The Nighthawks played the occasional gig at The Elbow Room, Gus grilled irresistible chili dogs at Jess’ Quick Lunch,...
View ArticleFriday's local college roundup: Heritage's Holston helps N.C. State women...
Bonae Holston, a Heritage High graduate, and Marissa Kastanek each scored 16 points to help ninth-seeded North Carolina State knock off top-seeded Duke 75-73 Friday in an Atlantic Coast Conference...
View ArticleTeel Time: Old Dominion hires Jeff Jones as basketball coach
Jeff Jones, a regional college basketball staple for more than 30 years, is set to become Old Dominion’s next head coach. The school will introduce Jones at a news conference Thursday, according to a...
View ArticleTeel Time: Expect 5-6 NCAA tournament bids for ACC, only one for Colonial
If you Christmas shop in June, you probably enjoy NCAA tournament bracketology in November. Those who keep a more rational calendar delay shopping until Thanksgiving and bubble talk until February. So...
View ArticleTeel Time: ESPN's Bilas likes Virginia's NCAA tournament chances
As Virginia prepares for a home game Thursday against Duke that convention suggests is crucial to its NCAA tournament prospects, at least one of college basketball’s most-visible analysts disagrees....
View ArticleFeedback for Wednesday, July 25
Homicide victim identified Darntrell Marque Belle, 22, of the 2100 block of Cunningham Drive in Hampton, was found shot to death Saturday night in the 700 block of 36th St. in Newport News. The...
View ArticleTeel Time: Navy assistant Kanaskie possible for Johnson's Virginia Tech staff
Given James Johnson’s head-coaching inexperience, many have surmised that he will include a former big whistle on his Virginia Tech basketball staff. If so, here’s a possibility: Navy associate head...
View ArticleTeel Time: Bennett says UVa working to upgrade non-conference schedule
As a No. 10 seed, Virginia was safely in this year’s NCAA basketball tournament. The Cavaliers were not among the final four at-large teams chosen, or the final eight for that matter. This according...
View ArticleTeel Time: Virginia AD Craig Littlepage approves of ACC's new football,...
Virginia athletic director Craig Littlepage approves of the ACC’s new scheduling formats and is “more and more convinced” that the addition of Pittsburgh and Syracuse “is a fantastic move for the...
View ArticleFeedback for June 20: Court costs, rankings and downtown Hampton
Clemens vs. Congress After reports that seven-time Cy Young-winner Roger Clemens was found not guilty on all counts of perjury regarding steroid accusations, one reader expressed concern about...
View ArticleTeel Time: Turnover among ACC athletic directors comes at critical time
ACC athletic directors have much to ponder these days. This fall they’ll evaluate possible rotations for future league football schedules. Realignment is a perennial issue, with the current hot-button...
View ArticleFeedback for Friday, July 6
March Madness in July Daily Press sports columnist David Teel on Thursday mentioned on Twitter that Wake Forest's Ron Wellman will be the sixth ACC athletic director to chair the NCAA Division I men's...
View ArticleTeel Time: Virginia Tech baseball hire another in-house promotion
In 2006, Virginia Tech athletic director Jim Weaver hired four head coaches. All came from elsewhere. Wrestling’s Kevin Dresser had spent 10 years at nearby Christiansburg High School; baseball’s Pete...
View ArticleWellman looking for better year at Wake in 2013-14
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Athletic director Ron Wellman is looking for a better year at Wake Forest in 2013-14. In an interview with The Associated Press, the AD called the 2012-13 academic year "a...
View ArticleThe Glory That Used to Be Wake Forest Athletics
By Molly Dutmers and Nick Weldon Online Managing Editor and Sports Editor We used to be a basketball powerhouse. We used to gain NCAA tournament berths and rank among the top programs of the Atlantic...
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