Xavier Adibi

|TV SPORTS| |SATURDAY| Soccer—Premier League, Fulham at West Ham, 6:30 a.m. (ESPN2); Women’s National Teams, Exhibition, United States vs. Costa Rica, 1:30 p.m. (NBC) College Football—Notre Dame vs. Navy, 8 a.m. (CBS); Ohio at Penn...

Virginia Tech has led the nation in scoring defense and/or total defense three times under coordinator Bud Foster. And with nine starters returning, this could be another benchmark year. So what have been the common threads linking those great defenses,...

Tackle Oday Aboushi became Virginia's first offensive representative on the preseason All-ACC team in four years Wedndesday, while Bethel High graduate and Virginia Tech defensive end James Gayle was among a contingent of four defensive players from...

BOURBONNAIS -- Brian Urlacher watched practice wearing a floppy hat Saturday, but the Chicago Bears still don’t have a timetable for when the linebacker will return to action. Urlacher returned to the team after nearly a week away for what coach...

BOURBONNAIS — Nearly a week away from the team for personal reasons has not healed Brian Urlacher's left knee, but replacements the Bears brought to training camp are because of other injuries at linebacker. Urlacher returned to training camp...

Kevin Jones, Xavier Adibi, Jeff King and Jayron Hosley played some awfully good football at Virginia Tech. The first three became NFL draft picks, and Hosley will join the club in April. Comparing new prospects to such talents sets a high bar, but that's...

Phoebus High and Virginia Tech alums Xavier Adibi and Stephen Friday combined for half the Houston Texans’ seven sacks in Monday night’s preseason opener against the New York Jets. Not bad for two guys playing new positions in a new defense....

What follows is not an indictment of Rivals.com or a dig at all you football recruiting nuts. Rivals provides a valuable service and, I'm guessing, makes a tidy profit. And the more times the NSD-obsessed crowd clicks on links like this, the more our...

TV SPORTS Men's College Basketball-Old Spice Classic, Boston College vs. Texas A&M, 11 a.m. (ESPN2), Wisconsin vs. Manhattan, 1 p.m. (ESPN2), Georgia vs. Notre Dame, 6 p.m. (ESPN2), Temple vs. California, 10:30 p.m. (ESPN2); Virginia Tech vs. Cal...

He rested for maybe six of the game's 121 plays. Yet had Saturday's Group AAA, Division 5 final gone to overtime, you know Phoebus fullback/defensive end Xavier Adibi would have been as fresh as ever. Of course, there was no need for OT, and Adibi had...

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...

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...