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The U.S. Men's National Team hasn't looked sharp since last summer's World Cup, but this part of the team's cycle is not about winning, columnist Nik Samaras writes. Right now, the team is figuring who can contribute in the near and more distant future. Pictured: midfielder Kyle Beckerman.
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Watch and learn

There seems to be a sense of panic spreading across U.S. Soccer circles. On the tail end of consecutive losses in international friendlies to Colombia and the Republic of Ireland, the team is winless since a post-World Cup friendly with the Czech Republic.


Junior guard Malcolm Brogdon knocked down two 3-pointers, grabbed three rebounds and dished out three assists in 26 minutes Sunday night against Norfolk State. 
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Maximum effort, minimum words

If you had showed up 2 hours late for the Virginia basketball game against South Carolina State on Tuesday, waked past the scoreboard without looking and went straight to the team's postgame press conference, you would have been hard pressed to figure out that the Cavaliers had won.


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Switch it up

The Major League Soccer playoffs began Oct. 29. If you’re sad you missed it, then cheer up, because you’ve still got a month left to catch these exciting games, including a pair of conference final games this upcoming Sunday. Still not convinced? Let me try to persuade you.


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Man City's woes

America loves to hate winners. The teams who make you scowl just to think about with their sickeningly sweet appearances, fair-weather fans, and ubiquitous worldwide pomp.


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The power of 757

It has been more than two years since Bayside High rising senior Taquan “Smoke” Mizzell committed to Virginia over North Carolina and West Virginia, affirming the Cavaliers’ considerable influence in Southeastern Virginia’s Hampton Roads region.


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Detrimentally early recruiting

In nearly every circumstance, the early-recruiting process that exists in basketball hurts recruits such as Boatright, Peebles and Kelly by removing them from the nationwide recruiting process.


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Failure to adjust

With Saturday’s head-scratching loss to North Carolina, the Virginia football team fell to 4-4 on the year. Our team this year is obviously much better than last year’s edition, but the Cavaliers still have several enormous flaws which could keep them from reaching bowl eligibility.


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Becoming a Goliath

The East Region's top seed from a season ago, the Virginia Cavaliers, received the No. 8 national ranking in the USA Today preseason poll released last Thursday.


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#GoACC Power Rankings: Week 7

I’d like to start this week by apologizing for a dearth of #GoACC coverage last week, I had a few prior commitments and I hope nobody’s week was not too negatively affected.


This year's Washington Nationals gave us renewed hope for a D.C. winner—and then lost their first two games to San Francisco. Still, columnist Daniel Weltz won't renounce his District fandom. He's hopelessly hooked. . 
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Awaiting the jackpot

If an unhealthy addiction is defined as an irrational fixation on something that is objectively not worth the trouble, then tie me to a chair, send in the shrinks and let the intervention begin. I have a problem.


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The tragedy of Gaël Monfils

Before all else, my tennis fandom can be described as fiercely nationalistic. But as Chanhong noted last week, long gone are the days when American men were serious contenders at major tournaments.


	Sophomore left-hander Brandon Waddell came up big for Virginia, pitching a complete game with the Cavaliers facing elimination.
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Student-Athlete-Superhuman

Student-athletes can sometimes seem like entirely different beings: incredibly fit and often-intimidating creatures roaming Grounds in official ACC sweatpants, identifiable by the names and numbers attached to their backpacks. Here’s something crazy, though: they’re humans just like the rest of us – except they’re humans who also happen to perform nearly superhuman feats. Our peers in the Athletics Department balance the same academic pressures as everyone else – then they go out and win for the glory of dear Virginia.


	Steven Gerrard’s emotional moment following Liverpool’s 3-2 victory against Manchester City was years in the making.
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Gerrard's time-honoring tears

Following his Liverpool side’s 3-2 triumph over fellow league title challenger Manchester City, Steven Gerrard’s eyes began to leak. Gerrard lost control of his emotions at a juncture when the threat of losing out on the league crown remained quite prevalent. If you know anything about Gerrard’s story, however, you’ll forgive the man a moment of emotion.


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