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The Siegel Center has always been a comfy spot for Brandon Rozzell, who played many a game at the arena during outstanding high school career at nearby Highland Springs. But Thursday night, it wasn’t just the location that felt familiar. Instead, it was Virginia Commonwealth University’s breakneck press and jet-fuel powered, fastbreak offense. “I love it,” Rozzell, who had 14 points said of the new, up-tempo Rams. “It reminds me of back in my Highland Springs days. It’s lovely.” Much like his high school career, Rozzell ended up on the winning end too, as the Rams harassed, blitzed and bolted past Virginia Union, 85-55, in VCU’s season-opening exhibition. It was a successful debut for the first-year Head Coach Shaka Smart’s version of VCU Basketball, which looks like former coach Anthony Grant’s system on steroids. READ MORE...
February 5, 2004. Kate Hudson will never forget the date. The VCU senior goalkeeper nods with a certain affirmation when she says it, silently acknowledging that it was the day her life changed forever. You see, that was the day Kate Hudson learned she had cancer. Midway through her final year at River Hill High School in Clarksville, Md., Hudson was looking forward to spring soccer and a lifetime of senior year memories. It came to a screeching halt that February day. Weeks earlier, Hudson found a lump on her neck during indoor track practice. Hudson had been feeling fatigued lately, but chalked it up to the rigors of school and sports. Now she knew something was wrong. A biopsy revealed Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, a cancer of the tissue found in lymph nodes. Unchecked, it can spread to the spleen, liver, bone marrow and other organs. When Hudson received the diagnosis, she was stunned. “I know the date really well, but a lot of the rest I’ve blocked out,” Hudson said. “I really only remember about a two-minute period of that day. I have no idea what else happened.” READ MORE...
The coaches and staffers who work in the VCU Sports Medicine Building are familiar with the grating, metal-on-blacktop sound of the weight sled. Year ‘round, Rams’ athletes can be found dragging the primitive, yet highly effective, apparatus back and forth across the Sports Med parking lot. Despite the basic premise, the exercise builds powerful athletes, and is a stable of the Rams’ strength and conditioning programs. So VCU Head Volleyball Coach James Finley wasn’t surprised to see an impressive, albeit unfamiliar athlete pulling the contraption when he returned to his office in mid-July. “I had been at nationals and doing camps and recruiting and I hadn’t been around campus much,” Finley said. “Coach [Nathan] Baker and I were walking out the back of Sports Med and there was this girl pulling the weight sled, and it was just the ‘V’ shape and everything else, and we wondered, ‘when did track get a kid like that?’” But it wasn’t a hot shot track and field recruit, it was Finley’s own player, rising junior Mariel Frey. READ MORE...
AROUND THE HORNS GOES TO WASHINGTON Tuesday, Oct. 20 was CAA Basketball Media Day in Washington, D.C. It's the league's kickoff to all things hoops. Naturally, we were there, so it seemed like a perfectly good time to catch up with VCU Head Coaches Beth Cunningham and Shaka Smart.
In the unforgettable words of Allen Iverson, “We talkin’ ‘bout practice.” Another season of VCU Basketball kicks off on Friday, Oct. 16, the first date allowed by NCAA regulations. Over the course of the next four weeks, both Men’s Basketball Coach Shaka Smart and Women’s Coach Beth Cunningham will attempt to teach offensive and defensive philosophies, hone fundamentals, construct a playing rotation and approximately 1,000 other things before the first games begin. Much is unsettled and needs to be sorted out, but one thing is for certain, they’re ready to get down to business. “My excitement level couldn’t be any higher,” Smart said. “We’ve been talking about this for a long time, and now it’s finally here. I prefer action over talk anyway. It’s time to put the ball down on the floor and go to work.” READ MORE...
Ariana Jones’ first foray into cross country wasn’t exactly love at first sight. Actually, it wasn’t even like at first sight. Instead, it played out like a bad blind date. Perhaps that’s what has made Jones’ ascension to the front of Virginia Commonwealth University’s pack so stunning. A freshman from Sterling, Va., Jones has been the Rams’ top harrier in two of the school’s three meets, despite a grand total of three weeks of high school cross country experience. Her early returns have VCU believing it may have found a diamond in the rough – a rare, untapped talent. As a freshman at Potomac Hills High School, Jones joined the cross country program after she failed to make the volleyball team. Although she played basketball, the fitness level required for distance running proved to be a completely different animal. The intense mileage was a heavy burden for Jones. Three weeks into training, she fell down a hill and into a hole during a run, an ordeal that left Jones with a hyperextended knee. That was the end Jones’ high school cross country career. READ MORE...
I SURVIVED A VCU MEN'S BASKETBALL WORKOUT AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS T-SHIRT
Kelsey Scherrer jogs towards midfield when she notices something out of the corner of her eye. It’s a steal, which means it’s officially ‘go’ time. In a blink, she’s gone, reversing course in an instant. Legs churning, she barrels towards the goal like a heat-seeking missile. When the keeper races to intercept a pass to Scherrer on the left post, the Rams’ compact dynamo lunges towards the ball. Beating the keeper by a fraction of a second, she flips a shot over the helpless, prone defender and into the net, crashing to the turf in the process. Goal, VCU. Scenes like this are becoming commonplace for Scherrer, VCU Field Hockey’s diminutive scoring machine. Just five-foot-one, Scherrer is turning the program, and the Colonial Athletic Association, on its ear with her afterburner-fueled, highlight-reel-quality goals. Through eight matches, Scherrer, a freshman from Chesapeake, Va., leads the Rams with eight goals and 18 points. “She’s dynamic,” VCU Head Coach Kelly McQuade said. “She absolutely has the ability to change the momentum of games. She can basically take a game into her hands with one play.” READ MORE...
The job description of a goalkeeper could fill a page, but in the simplest terms, he (or she) is the last line of defense. When the bad guys are knocking on the door, it’s the keeper’s job to go get the ball. Clearly, it’s not for everyone. “Our position is so different,” says VCU Goalkeepers Coach Saul Montero. “Many field players think a goalkeeper is someone that is crazy. When it’s a one-on-one situation and it’s just the ball between his cleats and your face…you’ve got to be crazy to do that.” Guys with that type of disposition aren’t a dime a dozen. They don’t come in handy family packs at Target. But this season, VCU believes it’s found not just one outstanding player to guard the net, but three. “It’s the deepest we’ve ever been at the position,” says Rams’ Head Coach Tim O’Sullivan. READ MORE...
The son of former Washington Bullet Jimmy Jones, you’d think Mike Jones would’ve taken in some classic 1970s-era NBA basketball. Not so much. “Danny Ferry’s dad [Bob Ferry] was the general manager of the Bullets at the time,” Mike Jones said. “During the game we’d be in the bowels of the building. They had a family room, and it was stocked with food. They had a pool table, ping pong tables. We’d be there the whole game. I had no idea what kind of player my dad was until I talked to people. We’d be down there having a ball!” The good news for VCU basketball fans is that Jones has done a good job making up for lost time. These days, the 44-year-old is the veteran on Shaka Smart’s staff. “He brings a wealth of experience both in terms of on-floor coaching and recruiting,” Smart said. “His character is second to none and he has a tremendous ability to develop strong relationships with student-athletes, coaches, fans, high school coaches and the like.” READ MORE...
The answers that followed couldn’t possibly illustrate the point better than the expression on their faces. Their eyes widened, their backs arched, their faces turned towards the ceiling, as if to look to some divine intervention. A pained grin crept across their mouths. Is it possible to compress years of frustration into a few short sentences? Can some internet columnist properly convey the feeling that results when abundant passion and hard work are met with defeat? Kelly McQuade and Marle van Dessel have seen the worst. So, when pressed with the question, ‘what was the state of the VCU Field Hockey program three or four years ago,’ they both squirmed in their seats and searched for metaphors, most of which they knew would fall woefully short. “It was very tough,” McQuade, in her third season as head coach, said. READ MORE...
Glenn Wilkinson never hesitated when the time came to run into a burning building, but amusement park rides? They were serious business. On his final trip to Virginia in the summer of 2001, Wilkinson was spending the day at Busch Gardens with his sister and her daughter, June, when he reluctantly agreed to ride the Battering Ram, a ship that swings end-to-end on a pendulum. Wilkinson sat in the middle of the boat with June, then a nervous 13-year-old. “I thought that he was nice by volunteering to sit with me, but I soon realized he was screaming just as loud as I was,” Hartman recalled. “When he saw I was looking at him, he changed his voice to a deeper, more masculine tone. When I called him out about it, we both just laughed.” It’s one of the final lasting memories Hartman, now a senior on VCU’s women’s soccer team, has of her Uncle Glenn. READ MORE...
When Kelly McQuade says Lindsay Shacklette ‘is like having another coach on the field,’ she isn’t recycling a tired cliche, she really means it. That’s because Shacklette, a senior on VCU’s Field Hockey squad, spends her offseason on the sidelines as a field hockey camp counselor and assistant coach with the High Voltage U19 squad in Northern Virginia. Shacklette, a Fredericksburg, Va. native, didn’t necessarily get into coaching for strategic advantage, but it’s certainly paying off for the Rams. “[Shacklette] has probably the single most improved skills of anybody on the team,” McQuade said. “I attribute that to coaching. Once you have to start telling other people where to go, it helps you a lot too. It’s really helped her field awareness.” Shacklette, who shares captain duties with fellow senior Rachel Krumm, also believes her time on the bench is translating when she steps onto the Cary Street turf. READ MORE...
Tomorrow, he’ll be under the bright lights of Camden Yards, where he could be facing a stacked Texas Rangers lineup in some MacGyver-worthy, pressure-cooked, bases-loaded jam. But today, Cla Meredith wants to face nothing scarier than his newborn daughter’s diapers. While his team, the Baltimore Orioles, enjoys a day off, Meredith has retreated to his Richmond, Va. home for some much-needed quality time with his wife, Natalie, and their five-month-old daughter, Adellyn. It’s a rare treat for a guy who spent the last 3 ½ years playing with the San Diego Padres, 3,000 miles away from his friends and family. A Richmond native and VCU alum, Meredith is happy to be back on the East Coast. “It’s all I know,” Meredith said. “It’s all I want to know. Even when I went away for the summer, even to San Diego to play, It’s a beautiful city, but mentally, it always felt temporary. It never felt like home. This is home.“ READ MORE...
For many Ram fans, once the school year ends in May, VCU Athletics hibernates in some woodland cave. If there was any summer where that wasn’t true, this would be the one. In fact, there was so much stuff VCU-related stuff going on in the sports world, I wrote a column about it. Here’s the Around The Horns version of “In Case You Missed It.” DRAFTING, VCU STYLE
In these days of specialization on Major League rosters, Sean Marshall is an oddity of sorts. He’s like baseball’s version of the ShamWow. “It’s like a chamois, a towel, a sponge! ShamWow!“ Marshall, a VCU product and Richmond, Va. native, has been a ubiquitous presence on Chicago Cubs’ roster this season, as Manager Lou Pinella has cast the 6-7 left-hander in a variety of roles. Need a starter? Sean’s on it. Looking for a situational lefty? Marshall will do. Searching for a long man to save the ‘pen? Not a problem. “If the phone rings and it’s my name, I’m going to go up there and try to get them out,” Marshall said. “I’m fortunate to wear a big league uniform.” A starter most of his life, Marshall has made 76 appearances for the Cubs the last two seasons, including 16 starts. This year, Marshall is 3-7 with a 4.35 ERA in 42 appearances. Marshall made eight starts in the first two months of the season, but after injuries ravaged Chicago’s pitching staff, he moved to the bullpen. READ MORE...
Walker was a senior and the leading scorer on the VCU’s record-setting 2006-07 squad that advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament. He also ranks 11th on the school’s all-time scoring list with 1,480 points. Since his graduation, the 25-year-old Walker has played professionally in Iceland, Holland and Belgium. This past season, he averaged 18.8 points and 3.0 assists per game for the Rotterdam Challengers of the Dutch Eredivisie League.
“When I first got here I felt like I was in way over my head, because everybody was so good,” the Rams’ senior said. “They used to call me the Drill Killer. Every drill, as soon as I got in there, I’d mess up the whole drill and they’d have to stop it. I was bad. I was very bad.” A 5-11 middle blocker, Rich was lightly recruited out of Cumberland High School and was admittedly raw as a freshman in 2006. At that point, she’d only been playing volleyball for two years and chose to walk on at VCU, rather than accept offers from a handful of Division III schools and historically black colleges. READ MORE...
In a bit of shameless self-promotion (we just can’t help ourselves) I thought it would be fun to give my own take on our “Mount VCU” discussion here on the interwebs. FYI, to cast your own vote, click here. The purpose of Mount Rushmore was essentially to celebrate the first 150 years or so of American history and depicts the faces of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt, figures who shaped the country. So, I want to look at “Mount VCU” from a similar point of view. I wanted to look at the players and coaches that shaped the school in the 41 years since the merger of RPI and MCV. Before I get started, let me just say that Google is a drug. Here are some cool things I learned about Mount Rushmore in the last couple of days: THE PLAYERS
I imagine Larry Sanders’ first day of class this fall will go something like this: It’s a full classroom today in junior English. Surely the coming weeks will yield Chaucer, Longfellow and Hemingway, but today is the dreaded essay, ‘How I Spent My Summer Vacation.’ One-by-one, students recite a steady drivel of family getaways to Virginia Beach, a trip to crazy Uncle Ralph’s barbecue, so-and-so’s killer pool party, etc. The snooze-o-meter reaches DEFCON 4. Sanders strolls to the front of the class, paper clenched in his gigantic right mitt, and the professor asks simply, ‘So Larry, how did you spend your summer vacation?’ Matter-of-factly, Sanders says that he hung with Amar’e Stoudemire in Phoenix, defended LeBron James in Akron and balled with Ben Wallace in Richmond. Oh, did he mention he has his own billboard? Yeah, there’s that too.
For a month in the summer of 1999, the FIFA Women’s World Cup captivated America. Previously an afterthought in the United States, women’s soccer was thrust to the forefront, as the powerhouse American squad zigzagged the country before record crowds. On July 10, 1999, the U.S. met China in the championship match before a crowd of 90,185 at the Rose Bowl in Pasedena, Calif., the largest to ever witness a women’s sporting event. Scoreless through regulation, the game was decided in a shootout on a Brandi Chastain penalty kick. Chastain’s kick and subsequent shirtless celebration became iconic moments in American lore, right up there with Babe Ruth, the 1980 Miracle On Ice and the Ice Bowl. VCU Co-Women’s Soccer Coach Tiffany Roberts Sahaydak played on that squad and recently spoke to Around The Horns about those unforgettable moments from 10 years ago. ATH: What was initially went through your mind when Brandi Chastain connected on that final penalty kick to give the U.S. the championship?
Be honest, you didn’t think we’d be having this conversation anytime soon, maybe ever. Not after last season. However, in a couple of days, we could be – and should be - calling VCU-alum Brandon Inge an All-Star. Real-Deal-Holyfield. Don’t get me wrong here, Inge is a fine major league third baseman, but up until this season, the closest the Lynchburg, Va. native came to an All-Star Game was MTV’s Rock ‘N Jock Softball Jam. Through Thursday, July 2, Inge was hitting .275 with 18 home runs, ninth in the American League, and 52 RBI, 10th on the Junior Circuit. Inge leads AL third basemen in homers and is second in runs batted in. Oh, and did we mention he’s playing a Gold Glove-worthy third base? If Inge is named to his first All-Star squad when the teams are revealed on Sunday, July 5, he’ll be the first former VCU player to earn that distinction. Inge won’t win the fan vote. He might not even finish in the top five. Tampa Bay’s Evan “Don’t Call Me Eva” Longoria has that nearly hemmed up. In addition, sexier picks Alex Rodriguez and Mike Lowell, also read: New York and Boston, will probably garner more votes than Inge as well. Heck, Roger Dorn might have more votes than Inge right now. READ MORE...
Shaka Smart said he wanted to play up-tempo, but this could be pushing it. On June 25, Smart, VCU’s Men’s Basketball Coach, geared up for the ride of a lifetime at Richmond International Raceway. With the IndyCar Series in town for the SunTrust Indy Challenge, Smart strapped in for a ride in a specially designed two-seater, which is an IndyCar that has been stretched to fit a passenger behind the driver. Click on the links above for photos and video of Smart’s IndyCar ride.
Some 98 days since the curtain fell on his collegiate career, Eric Maynor will learn where his life as a professional basketball player will begin Thursday during the NBA Draft (ESPN, 7 p.m.). The last three months have been a whirlwind for Maynor, VCU’s all-time leader in points and assists, who only recently had an opportunity to think about what lies ahead. “It’s just now starting to hit me,” Mayor said last week. “I’m just a few days away from getting my name called by [NBA Commissioner] David Stern. In a draft stocked with point guards, it’s anybody’s guess where Maynor could wind up. However, most mock drafts have the Raeford, N.C. native going somewhere in the middle of the first round. “I just want to end up in the right situation,” Maynor said. “Whether it’s No. 10 or No. 19, I don’t want to sit behind a bunch of people. I want to go somewhere where I can play and contribute.” READ MORE...
As we exited the floor of Buffalo’s HSBC Arena, you could feel the collective range of emotions from the sellout crowd of nearly 19,000. Shock. Awe. Excitement. Despair. Validation. Literally moments earlier, some wiry point guard nobody had ever heard of named Eric Maynor sent shockwaves through college basketball, when his jumper with 1.8 seconds left felled Duke, a presumably insurmountable Goliath. It was my job that evening to escort Maynor, CBS’ new poster boy for their “One Shining Moment” slogan, from his courtside TV and radio interviews, back to the jubilant VCU lockerroom. As we retracted under the stands and into the guts of the arena, we slipped past a group of men, led by a tall, balding gentleman, likely in his mid-forties. “Nice shot,” The man said, as we passed in the hall. Maynor, his eyes darting about, adrenaline coursing through his veins, looked like Ralphie from “A Christmas Story” after unwrapping his Little Red Rider B.B. Gun. The 6-3 guard barely noticed the man, but managed to reply, “appreciate it.” As we walked, I gave a look back. “Was that Jim Kelly?” I said, referring to the former rocket-armed Buffalo Bills quarterback. READ MORE...
The early parts of Tarrell Robinson’s basketball career were a lot more style than substance. “For some reason, from watching T.V., I would always try to do Michael Jordan moves, go baseline, double-pump, and go to the other side of the rim. If I got that move, I was good,” Robinson recalls with a laugh. Although the flash subsided, Robinson did manage to get better. In fact, although he got a late start in basketball, Robinson proved to be such a quick study, that the game took the 31-year-old farther than he ever imagined. “Basketball kind of saved me,” said Robinson, recently named an assistant coach on the VCU Women’s Basketball staff. READ MORE...
Whether he was draining long-range 3-pointers or flashing his signature megawatt smile, Jamal Shuler was one of the most likeable VCU players in recent memory. In 2007-08, the 6-3 guard averaged 15.5 points and 4.7 rebounds and was named to the Colonial Athletic Association’s First Team, as well as the league’s All-Defensive Team. “Shu” recently completed his first professional season with Trier of Germany’s First Division, averaging 9.1 points, 4.3 rebounds and 1.2 steals. Around The Horns recently caught up with the former Ram star. ATH: Jamal, you just completed your first season in Germany, how’d it go?
A is for Around The Horns. It’s best to get these shameless plugs out of the way early. B is for B-Squared, Double ‘B’, ‘Big Shot’ Bradford Burgess. A freshman out of nearby Benedictine, Burgess started all 34 men’s basketball games this season and averaged 7.4 points, 3.5 rebounds and hit 43 percent (Big Shot Brad, hello…) of his 3-point attempts. His teammates call him ‘Juice’. Now you can too. C is for CAA Championships. VCU hoisted championship trophies in Men’s Basketball and Men’s Golf. You know who the sports information director both of those sports this year was? Yours truly. I’m just saying, where there’s smoke, there’s fire.
Distance from Boston to Richmond: 555 miles. Approximate cost of one-way flight on Jet Blue: $200. Time to pack: Five hours. Chance to work with Shaka Smart at VCU: Priceless. On April 1, the day before his introductory press conference, Shaka Smart gave Will Wade, an assistant coach at Harvard, the opportunity to join his staff at VCU. Wade didn’t need long to think it over. “He called me around noon and said, ‘It’s done’, and I was on an 8:40 flight that evening,” Wade said. “I think I landed about 11 p.m., and then we met until 3 a.m.” READ MORE...
At 15, she was a college freshman. When she was 16, she was the youngest college basketball player in the country, with the weight of the VCU women’s basketball program on her shoulders. Now 20 years old, Quanitra Hollingsworth is getting ready to embark on a career in the WNBA after the Minnesota Linx selected her with the ninth overall pick in the league’s April 9 draft. With WNBA training camp set to begin May 17, Around The Horns recently sat down with ‘Q’. ATH: Quanitra, you’ve been finishing up your master’s degree, and at the same time preparing for your first WNBA training camp. How busy have the last few weeks been? “I don’t have hobbies. It’s basketball. It’s my family in basketball, that’s it,” says the father of three, matter-of-factly. “I know sometimes I have to golf. I don’t want to golf. I’ll go play with my kids or play pickup basketball now before I do anything else.” He’s serious too. For years, date night with his wife Jodie, a former All-American field hockey player, was often dinner, followed by a VCU basketball game. It’s a mindset that was carved out on the playgrounds of his Pennsylvania hometown as boy, but has followed him throughout an impressive career. Rhoades gave himself to the game, and the game rewarded him. He’s been All-State, an All-American, a National Champion and a Coach of the Year. He was a college head coach at 25. Now, 36, Mike Rhoades has already accomplished more than some do in a lifetime. However, after 10 successful years as the head coach at nearby Randolph-Macon College, Rhoades decided he was ready for the next step, and jumped at the chance to work as an assistant on Shaka Smart’s staff at VCU. READ MORE...
Last week I got to do two things. Numero uno was I got my first up-close look at the VCU Golf team’s new travel van/mini-bus. It’s an incredible luxury for the team, which coincidentally is headed to the NCAA Regionals for the first time since 2002. No. 2, I attempted to do an on-camera interview for the first time in about nine years. Thankfully, Matt does most of the talking. Either way, Rams’ golf coach Matt Ball was a gracious host as he took Around the Horns for a spin around campus. -Chris Kowalczyk Just as his career was getting off the ground, Bill Courtney missed an opportunity to be a part of a prominent team. Something in the ACC or Big East, you ask? Nope, closer to the Big Feast, actually. In 1995, two weeks into his first college coaching gig - a $2,000-a-year stint as an assistant at Lafayette College - Courtney was set to join the team at his local Chili’s Restaurant. “I went out and bought tennis shoes and everything,” Courtney said jokingly. Surely the affable Courtney would have done well waiting tables. It’s a people business, and Bill Courtney loves people. However, before he could start slinging baby back ribs, then-American Coach Chris Knocke threw Courtney a lifeline. AROUND THE HORNS Welcome to Around the Horns, where we provide you an in-depth look at the world of VCU Athletics. In the coming weeks we’ll be bringing you exciting features, videos, blogs and more in an effort to bring you closer to the action than ever before. You’ll get an up close look at your favorite VCU teams, players, coaches, and who knows, even mascots. So please, make yourself comfortable and enjoy a fresh look at your VCU Rams. - Comments or Questions? Contact us at aroundthehorns@yahoo.com or look us up on Facebook. |
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VCU IS OFF TO THE RACES
FOR AMANDA
FREY EMERGES AS A THREAT FOR VCU ON AND OFF THE FLOOR
JONES TURNS OUT TO BE A DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH
DIMINUTIVE SCHERRER SCORES BIG FOR VCU
COMMON GOALS: MEN’S SOCCER LIKES ITS OPTIONS IN NET
IOWA WIN AN UPSET THREE YEARS IN THE MAKING
UNCLE’S BRAVERY ON 9-11 INSPIRES VCU’S HARTMAN 
NEW PERSPECTIVE HELPS SHACKLETTE STEER RAMS
THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME FOR MEREDITH
AROUND THE HORNS: IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
SEAN MARSHALL THRIVES AS CUBS’ UTILITY ARM
CATCHING UP WITH… B.A. WALKER
STRIKING IT RICH
AROUND THE HORNS BREAKS DOWN VCU’S NON-CONFERENCE FOES
AROUND THE HORNS TACKLES MOUNT VCU
HOW LARRY SANDERS SPENT HIS SUMMER VACATION
AMERICA’S SWEETHEARTS; VCU COACH RECALLS 1999 WORLD CUP
INGE AN ALL STAR? HE SHOULD BE
SMART’S THRILL RIDE
MAYNOR TO LEARN NBA DESTINATION THURSDAY
NUMBERS GAME
VCU ASSISTANT ROBINSON IS A QUICK STUDY
THE YEAR IN VCU ATHLETICS, FROM ‘A’ TO ‘Z’
TOTAL COMMITMENT: WILL WADE 
Mike Rhoades is a basketball man. Just ask him.
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