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No. 11 Virginia sets sights on opening weekend

By Ben Gomez | August 28, 2008

The Virginia field hockey team opens the 2008 campaign with things old and new.Home games against long-time, in-state rival William & Mary at 2 p.m Friday and against Providence, an opponent the Cavaliers have not faced seen 1992, at 3:30 p.m Sunday at the Turf Field open another season in the young Virginia career of coach Michele Madison.Though the NCAA Tournament sits on the far side of a demanding schedule, the No.

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Cavaliers continue quest for perfection

By Jack Bird | August 28, 2008

While most University students have been slowly easing themselves into the routine of classes and extracurricular activities, the women?s soccer team has already played two exhibition games and one regular-season game.

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Men

By Paul Montana | August 28, 2008

The Virginia men?s basketball team travels to Montreal this weekend for a set of three exhibition games against opponents from the area.

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Enough is enough

By Paul Wiley | August 27, 2008

Saturdays have gotten much more complicated for me.For quite literally my entire life, every Saturday in the fall has been filled with the pomp and circumstance of game day, either at Scott Stadium or huddled around our TV if the Orange and Blue was on the road.

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Basically, a Cruddy System

By Dan Stalcup | August 27, 2008

Imagine you are hiking and you come to a hill. The path goes right over the hill to the other side. Most hikers wouldn?t think twice about going up and then down the hill to the other side.

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Veteran leadership key to Virginia

By Ben Gomez | August 27, 2008

The Virginia women?s field hockey team is looking to veteran leadership to steer an underclassmen-dominated roster.Coach Michele Madison is in her third year coaching at Virginia and 20th year overall after coming from Michigan State.

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New players hope to bolster rebuilding efforts

By Anders Sleight | August 26, 2008

Rebuilding year. It?s one of those taboo terms college coaches avoid like the plague. After a disappointing 12-8-2 season in 2007 that included a 1-5-2 record in ACC play, however, the Cavaliers? 2008 season has been all but labeled as such.

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Sign of the times

By Eric Strow | August 26, 2008

If you are even the most casual of sports fans, you are probably planning to go to Saturday?s football game.

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Women

By Jack Bird | August 26, 2008

?I think every year and every season our expectation and our goal is to win the ACC Tournament and win the national championship,? senior goalie Celeste Miles said, following the Cavaliers? last exhibition game.Goals and expectations are, of course, a constant theme in sports ? either for an upcoming game, or even a whole season.

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Everything to gain

By Aaron Perryman | August 26, 2008

The USC football team?s laundry list of achievements during the last six years is simply mind-numbing.Six straight finishes in the top four of the Associated Press poll, six straight BCS bowl games, six straight PAC-10 championships, six straight seasons with 11 victories ? oh, and let?s not forget about the two national titles in 2003 and 2004 and a near-third in 2005.

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U.Va. needs to Groh up already

By Dan Stalcup | August 23, 2008

The sighs of disappointment after the Cavaliers were beaten in the Gator Bowl by Texas Tech, the moans of disbelief after five key players left the team because of academic and disciplinary issues, the cheers for Chris Long as he was taken with the second pick in the 2008 NFL Draft: All of the noise and commotion from the end of last season has cleared.

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Here

By Paul Wiley | August 23, 2008

For all of you first-years who just finished hugging Mom and Dad goodbye and are now wondering how you got stuck on the top floor of an non-air-conditioned dorm, welcome to the University.

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Singletary chosen in second round of NBA draft

By Cavalier Daily Staff | July 14, 2008

The Sacramento Kings selected Virginia point guard and 2008 graduate Sean Singletary during the second round of the 2008 NBA Draft June 26. Though Singletary hoped to be selected in the first round of the draft, he may have been fortunate to receive a second-round pick, as some pundits predicted he would not be selected in either round of the draft. Singletary said he thought he would be selected once he saw teams were selecting guards early. "I saw guards going earlier so I knew I was going to go later," he said. Singletary said he was not watching the draft when he was selected, but said he was excited that Sacramento chose him with the 42nd pick. Center Jason Thompson (first round, 12th pick) from Rider and forward Patrick Ewing, Jr.

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