University of Richmond

Bill Dee spent no time basking in Phoebus' first state football championship Saturday. "You guys set the standard," he told his players. "Now, you young guys, we're not satisfied with just one." The highest of standards. Phoebus dominated Patrick...

One of Virginia coach Al Groh's first hires as assistant coach doesn't need a map to get around Charlottesville or the state. Mike London, a Hampton native with ties to the University of Richmond and William and Mary, will join the Cavaliers' staff as...

A couple of months ago, Mike London found himself staring at a crisis. This particular crisis stands 6-foot-3, weighs 185 pounds and was beating him in backyard basketball 10-to-9 in a game to 11. London had never before faced such a predicament. ``He...

After 36 years of football coaching, it might be easy to assume Jim Reid has done just about everything he sought out to do in the profession. To a certain extent, that's true. He spent 19 years coaching at the flagship university of his home state of...

Nearly 300 Virginia public high schools, from Newport News to Nandua, from Annandale to Appalachia, began preseason football practice under August's searing sun. Each dreamed of perfection: an undefeated regular season, memorable playoff run and state...

D.J. Parker and Matt Wright danced like children at the 20-yard line. Linebacker Maurice Boone couldn't stop crying. Nearly four months after beginning its quest to defend its Division 5 title in football, Phoebus High got a chance to celebrate again...

Maybe it was the chance to keep his hand in the game that led Mike London to give up a potential career in law enforcement to coach football. Maybe it was the chance to help kids after a few years of facing the daily despair on the mean streets of...

Leading a college football program for the first time isn't that daunting. Not when you've stared down the business end of a bad guy's revolver. Not when you've donated bone marrow to your sick little girl. And certainly not when that initial head-...

There are no visible scars. A nearly hairless head that's usually covered by a floppy denim hat and the surgical mask she wears in crowds are the only signs that something may be different. Nothing in Ticynn London's behavior indicates she is anything...

Virginia defensive line coach/recruiting coordinator Mike London is scheduled to interview today for the head coaching position at the University of Richmond. A 1983 University of Richmond graduate and former Spiders defensive back, London is...

SANTA MONICA -- An astronaut aboard space shuttle Atlantis who has ties to Southern California is walking on air in more ways than one -- he's a proud new father. Randy Bresnik's wife Rebecca gave birth to a baby girl early Sunday -- just hours after the...

When Mike London left Richmond after two seasons and one national championship to take the head coaching job at the University of Virginia, his former employer, you couldn't exactly color the Spiders shocked. "As a team, we weren't surprised at all,"...