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ACC Tournament starts with Duke in Durham

In collegiate field hockey, conference opponents might face each other twice in regular and postseason play, but those teams rarely match up in back-to-back games, let alone twice in one week in the same city.


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Cavs escape first round of ACC Tournament

The third-seeded Virginia women?s soccer team squeezed past sixth-seeded Wake Forest last night in a 3-2 double-overtime thriller in the first round of the ACC Tournament in Cary, N.C., after sophomore forward Sinead Farrelly clanged a shot off the post and in the net for the game-winning goal in the 104th minute.The Cavaliers dominated the game statistically, out-shooting the Demon Deacons 23-7 and out-cornering them 12-5.


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Fire this clown

?For when the One Great Scorer comes,To write against your name,He marks ? not that you won or lost ?But how you played the game.?? Grantland RiceNever in the history of sports has a writer so succinctly and poetically summed up the essence of sports on a higher plane than that of the playing field.


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The next Big Thing: SlamBall

Now petitioning the NCAA for a new intercollegiate sport: SlamBall.I need to give a shout-out to my buddies Nolan and Tahlor for telling me about this sport, which is played on a modified basketball court that features Plexiglas boards, like in hockey, and four trampolines arranged to cover the area inside the three-point line.


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Halloween horror

Being a sports fan is never easy. As a Virginia Cavaliers football fan and Dallas Cowboys fan, the performance of these two teams was scarier than anything else I witnessed this Halloween weekend.Virginia had a chance to strengthen its hold on the Coastal Division and definitely let a win slip through its grasp Saturday.


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Men

The Virginia men?s cross country team raced to its second consecutive ACC Championship Saturday, and sixth-year senior Ryan Foster claimed his first career individual conference title.Racing at the Ranson-Hamrick Cross Country Course at North Carolina in Chapel Hill, the Cavaliers turned in the low card of the day, tallying just 40 points to comfortably outpace runner-up No.


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Missed opportunities galore in tough loss

?You probably can count on two fingers the amount of fumbles that Cedric [Peerman] has had.?Virginia coach Al Groh?s words for Peerman described the first occasion Peerman had fumbled the ball away to the opposition, or at all, in his Virginia career.


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Amen to that

It?s OK, Reverend.By Reverend, of course, I mean Cedric Peerman, tailback and ordained minister.


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