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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.


	Shabazz Napier played his heart out in UConn’s run to a national championship. Then, he called out the NCAA. Columnist Fritz Metzinger got to thinking.
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Stay hungry, my friends

“Ladies and gentlemen, you’re looking at the Hungry Huskies. This is what happens when you ban us!” When Shabazz Napier barked those words at the world after his Connecticut team won the men’s basketball national championship against Kentucky Monday night, he triggered a deluge of reactions. More than that, he reminded everyone of the polemic debate engulfing the NCAA.


	We can’t blame Teven Jones for electing to transfer from Virginia, but we’ll miss him all the same, writes columnist Kerry Mitchell.
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A Farewell to Teven

Over 59 games at UVa, fan favorite Teven Jones averaged 1.7 points. The meager stat lines hardly do justice to his impact off the court.


	Derek Jeter and the Yankees lost to the Houston Astros Tuesday in their first game of the season. Major League Baseball is back, and columnist Kerry Mitchell is glad for it.
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Leading off: Opening Day 2014

Opening Day is not a national holiday yet – keep at it, Ozzie, I’m with you – but it sure felt like one for baseball fans. Monday alone was full of storylines that, over the course of 162 games, will only get better – or at least, more interesting.


	Forget your bracket picks and embrace the unpredictability of the NCAA Tournament, writes columnist Sean McGoey. Kevin Canevari breaks out his Nae Nae following Mercer’s upset of Duke in the first round.
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Beautiful upset fever

I will argue until I’m blue in the face with Super Bowl supporters, World Series apologists and BCS nutjobs alike that March Madness is the best show we put on all year. But what people tend to forget is that the frequency of upsets is exactly what makes it so.


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Fun and Games

Four minutes remained in a lopsided game. After recording his second block of the game and prolonging a night that rendered Memphis an ant underneath a giant Virginia defensive magnifying glass, Mike Tobey gathered the ball at the top of the 3-point arc with oodles of time remaining on the shot clock and his defender hanging back in the lane.

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Latest Podcast

In this episode of On Record, Professor Ran Zhao, a Chinese professor and director of U.Va. in Shanghai, highlights how the program empowers students to immerse themselves in Chinese language and culture with intensive instruction and fun opportunities to explore the city. After all, learning a language means experiencing its culture firsthand.