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Virginia seeks return to winning ways

By Chanhong Luu | March 2, 2012

The Virginia baseball team hosts a three-team round robin tournament this weekend at Davenport Field as the squad looks to bounce back from Tuesday's 8-0 home loss to Liberty, the team's first regular-season shutout against a non-conference foe in more than a decade. The Cavaliers (5-2-1) open the weekend against Wright State (1-5) this afternoon before facing Seton Hall (2-5) for the nightcap of a doubleheader.

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Team eyes ACC Tourney

By Daniel Weltz | March 1, 2012

The Virginia women's basketball team may have solidified its NCAA Tournament resume with a three-game winning streak to wrap up conference play, but the Cavaliers can leave nothing to chance in tonight's opening round match-up of the ACC Tournament against 11th-seeded

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Hope for the best, expect the worst

By Ben Baskin | March 1, 2012

After the Virginia-North Carolina basketball game last weekend, I felt naive. Naive for sincerely believing we had a chance to pull off the upset, believing it up until Jontel Evans’ last-second heave, which had more of a chance of shattering the backboard than going through the net. You know that feeling you get when you just know something bad is about to happen, yet you stubbornly choose to ignore your concerns, only to watch them unfold exactly as you had foreseen? It’s a feeling of stupidity, of incredulity.

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Wrestler rebounds

By Zack Bartee | February 29, 2012

Five years ago redshirt senior Matt Nelson suffered a blow to his temple in wrestling practice which left him with a concussion. At the time, few people could have foreseen how the injury would derail his promising athletic career.

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Track teams finish fourth at ACC Indoors

February 29, 2012

The Virginia men's and women's track and field teams posted a pair of fourth-place team finishes at the ACC Indoor Championships in Boston last weekend. The Cavaliers' day was highlighted by individual victories for seniors Marcus Robinson and Mark Amirault and juniors Morgane Gay and Pearl Bickersteth. Robinson's opening mark of 53 feet, 6.5 inches in the triple jump stood up to earn the All-American his second gold in the event.

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By Matthew Diton | February 29, 2012

Welcome back to $100,000 Pyramid! You're in the final circle now, and the timer will begin when your partner starts giving clues.

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Flopping Out

By Fritz Metzinger | February 29, 2012

To cope with loss and disappointment, sports fans tend to dwell on the supposed significance of events which seemed irrelevant at the time.

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Cavaliers ace tourney

February 28, 2012

The No. 12 Virginia women's tennis team won the Blue/Gray Classic in Montgomery, AL last weekend, reaching the final round with two decisive wins against Auburn and No.

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Men regroup, bash Tech

February 28, 2012

The No. 3 Virginia men's tennis team cruised past in-state rival No. 37 Virginia Tech 6-1 in Blacksburg Sunday, rebounding from last week's loss against No.

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Squad sweeps homestand

By Matt Comey | February 28, 2012

Thirteen games into the season, the Virginia softball team is off to its best start since 1993. In its first home stand of the season this weekend, Virginia (11-2, 0-0 ACC) won all five of its games at the round-robin style Cavalier Invitational.

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Explosive Virginia offense keys blowouts

By Daniel Weltz | February 27, 2012

After a back-and-forth 11-inning affair against William & Mary in which freshman outfielder Mike Papi delivered a walk-off hit, the Cavaliers (5-1-1) walloped Monmouth (3-3) in the schools' first-ever meeting.

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