It was a tough day for both the Virginia men’s and women’s tennis programs at Friday’s ITA Indoor National Championships at the Boar’s Head Sports Club.

Often times, the hardest kind of tennis opponent is the one whose sole focus is keeping the ball in play via high-arcing topspin shots. The points tend to be long, leading to both mental and physical fatigue.

Kansas State coach Ron Prince will not return for the 2009 season, pushed out after failing to rebuild the Wildcats into a Big 12 contender.

Scattershooting around the ACC, while noting that the rest of the league better watch out for Florida State and Miami ...

Jones, who last season led the Eagles to the NCAA tournament for the first time as a Division I school, has signed a six-year contract extension that would keep in northwest Washington through the 2013-14 season.

In Bridgewater, Bridgewater College head basketball coach Bill Leatherman has announced his retirement after 23 years at the school.

On Sunday, chants of “UVa!” pierced through the Michael D. Case Tennis Center moments before Virginia’s Dom Inglot prepared to return a second serve from Baylor’s David Galic.

But facing the fifth-seeded Tar Heels, the Terrapins just about let the game slip away before holding on to win 6-4 at Scott Stadium on Friday.

It doesn’t look like Bo Carrington will ever experience the thrill of returning to his hometown to play college lacrosse in front of family and friends.

The former star Cavalier basketball player, who left school a year early in 1974 to play in the ABA and eventually the NBA, will deliver his talk, “The Long Way Home: Gus Gerard’s Path to Recovery,” at 7 p.m.  in the Newcomb Hall Ballroom.

Al Groh sent what could be construed as a strong message on Wednesday. Virginia’s football coach dismissed linebacker J’Courtney Williams, a promising inside linebacker and redshirt freshman, from the program.