Astoundingly, the Cavaliers defeated Duke in men’s basketball last night, 87-84. UVa, who fell out of the top 25 this week, beat the #3 Blue Devils in a 12-point rally in the last 7 minutes of the game. The AP has the story.
Sideblog
- Some nice pictures: Ghost signs of downtown (Via LoCoHistory) and Duncan Brown's 1980 photos of the Downtown Mall. #
- Charlottesville native Will Frischkorn, racing for Garmin-Chipotle, is kicking ass in this year's Tour de France. #
- The Hook calls the Progress on posting a conservative e-mail forward as a letter to the editor when the paper knew it was was plagiarized. Worse still, it's a terrible letter; why publish it at all? #
- DMB's LeRoi Moore is in the UVa hospital in "serious condition" after getting into an accident on his ATV on his farm. #
- Charlottesville resident Adam Nelson has qualified for the Olympics in the shot put. #
- Council is looking at blanketing downtown with WiFi. I'd go with a mesh network—it's cheaper, and my tests downtown show that it'll work just fine. #
- VDOT is reviewing the timing of lights on 29N. The bad news is that some of these jammed intersections are probably just getting more traffic than they can handle. #
- The Sheltons' apple orchard will begin producing hard cider, with the first batch expected to go on sale in the spring. Oh, hell yes. #
- Crime was down 3% in Albemarle and 7% in Charlottesville last year. Statewide the drop was 1%. #
- Courtesy of Google Books, "Rev. Edgar Woods' 1901 Albemarle County in Virginia" (PDF), his 412 page history of the county. I'm excited about reading this. #
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That’s not astounding; it’s just what Virginia does! As any fan knows, the only time to worry about Virginia losing a game is when they’re expected to win and have established a lead. The earlier and greater the lead, the more likely it is they’ll lose. In a game against a top-ranked opponent, however, where nobody believes they have a chance (e.g., Duke or [formerly] Carolina in basketball, Florida State in football), they pull off a great one at least every other year.
I’ve noticed this rule applies to both football and basketball, and a quarter century of observation has led me to conclude that the phenomenon has almost nothing to do with who’s coaching. It’s just Virginia, the poor darlings. No matter how much Cav fans sometimes secretly wish we could have been born Tarheels or Blue Devils, we’re stuck with what we got, and we love ‘em. :-)
“No matter how much Cav fans sometimes secretly wish we could have been born Tarheels or Blue Devils,”
I have NEVER, EVER wished I was born a dukie or a tarheel- two of the most obnoxious creatures ever to crawl form the ooze of creation. The rest of your post is dead on.