William & Mary emerged as the CAA Football team to beat after being rated as a top-10 team in a pair of preseason FCS polls.
W&M's Colby Sorsdal, NFL draft prospect, is known for durability. "Every offensive lineman is banged up in some capacity. So just put on your cleats and be like, 'All right, let's go.'"
WILLIAMSBURG – Buffalo Bills coach Sean McDermott, inducted to the William & Mary Athletics Hall of Fame Friday night, said he has “the utmost respect” for the men leading CAA Football rivals W&M and the University of Richmond.
“Get my degree, one. That was a major reason why I wanted to stay here. Also, we have a winning culture here right now. So those are the two things that made me want to come back.”
Buffalo Bills coach Sean McDermott was inducted to William & Mary's Athletics Hall of Fame Friday night.
The league tournament will be William & Mary's first neutral-court experience of the season after going 11-5 at home and 1-14 on the road.
James Madison’s plans for fall football advance through this pandemic, now with a calculator involved.
The trial of the man accused of murdering Nate Evans, a Lee-Davis High School graduate who went on to play running back at William & Mary, has been set for February in Norfolk Circuit Court.
No matter the verdict, Football Championship Subdivision programs would like to be made aware of one so they can proceed.
The protracted path to a professional basketball career for ex-William & Mary star forward Nathan Knight ran through the Richmond area. Knight, whose name occasionally pops up in projections of October’s two-round NBA draft, spent a couple of months training at RockIt Sports in Henrico C…
The University of Richmond and William & Mary will explore the possibility of playing spring football seasons after CAA Football on Friday pulled the plug on the concept of competing during a pandemic.
Budget-busting coronavirus testing costs associated NCAA guidelines and other factors will end CAA Football’s goal of playing as a league this fall through a pandemic.
University of Richmond football players, along with men’s and women’s basketball players, were scheduled to return to campus Wednesday. That has changed, a UR spokesperson confirmed Monday night.
William & Mary’s football schedule is down to eight games after Monday’s announcement by the Patriot League that its members would not play this fall in response to the pandemic. The Tribe were slated to meet Colgate at Zable Stadium on Sept. 12, and play at Lafayette on Sept. 19.
Richmond ($500,000), James Madison ($500,000) and William & Mary ($650,000) all face substantial losses if their football games against top-tier competition aren't played.
Pre-trial discussions were scheduled to start Friday in the case of the man charged with the murder of Nate Evans, a former Lee-Davis High and William & Mary running back. The trial was slated to take place July 13-16.
The Ivy League set the tone in March. It was the first conference to call off its men’s and women’s basketball tournaments in response to the spread of coronavirus. At the time, on March 10, that decision was widely viewed as an overreaction. But all other leagues followed the Ivy’s lead, an…
At last check, there is no blocking or tackling in golf. Yet since the PGA Tour returned to competition June 11, five players and two caddies have tested positive for COVID-19.
The University of Richmond’s vice president and director of athletics, John Hardt, said Monday that as July dawns he remains “cautiously optimistic” that the Spiders will play football this season. He reserved the right to modify his position as government and school authorities continue to …
In his first college game, William & Mary’s Hollis Mathis ran for 127 yards, the most by a Tribe quarterback in the program’s history, which dates to 1893.
Major league baseball ran into a stop sign raised by labor issues. Minor league baseball was mowed down by the pandemic. Seasons for college and high school teams were cut off by the coronavirus.
The commissioner of the Richmond-based Colonial Athletic Association, Joe D’Antonio, said Monday he believes there will be college football in 2020. Beyond that, a framework remains difficult to finalize because of current and potential coronaviral impacts, according to D’Antonio, whose FCS …
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Carl Fowler graduated in three years at William & Mary, earning a degree in public policy. This fall, he’ll start law school at W&M, with a primary interest in criminal defense for clients who may have been wrongly accused. Fowler, a redshirt junior defensive lineman and Tribe captai…
Mike London looked serious, angry, disappointed and empathetic all at once as he stared into his phone’s camera.
“Like many before him, Mr. Floyd’s death was the preventable product of a system that too often treats Black Americans as targets for suspicion, oppression and violence.”
Home-and-home games with regional partners and competition in stadiums without fans are options CAA Football is examining for the upcoming season in response to the impact of the coronavirus.
College coaches are often nomads. Those who win rise on the food chain. Those who lose are fired, collect their buyout and recalibrate.
College football is on the clock. Pay attention to the way scheduled openers for James Madison, William & Mary and Richmond are handled for indications as to how the rest of the FCS season may proceed, presuming pandemic guidelines allow it to begin.
CAA Commissioner Joe D’Antonio said Thursday he remains hopeful that the league’s football schedule as currently constituted will be played. He acknowledged, however, that one of the alternative models that the league has examined involves only league games.
William & Mary broadcaster Jay Colley intends for a most unfortunate life chapter to end happily.