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Confessions of a baseball convert

By Bart Isley | February 17, 2005

Fine, I'll admit it. Baseball matters. It took a spring and summer of live games at Davenport field last year, as well as a miraculous comeback in October by the Red Sox, but I'm now convinced that baseball does matter. I'm certainly the most reluctant of baseball converts, largely because of my frustrating childhood exposure to "America's game." Like most boys' parents in eastern North Carolina, my parents signed me up for tee-ball as a child.

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Virginia baseball falls to Old Dominion after long lead early

By Mickey Cloud and Elizabeth Newell | February 17, 2005

A late-game surge by Old Dominion gave the Monarchs the upset win over the Cavaliers yesterday. After leading 6-2 in the bottom of the sixth inning, the Cavaliers allowed the Monarchs to come sweeping back in the sixth and seventh innings and eventually take the game 7-6.

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Sea of Orange -- no match for Tar Heel Blue

By Jeremy Root | February 17, 2005

By Jeremy Root Cavalier Daily Gameday Editor CHAPEL HILL, NC -- The rafters are Tar Heel blue, the seats are blue, and grown men are all wearing blue dress shirts.

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Heels tar, feather Virginia for second time this year

By Joey Mancini | February 17, 2005

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- Whenever the North Carolina starters know that they have another win underneath their belt, quick glances and slim grins abound at breaks in the court action.

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Cavs look in mirror to revitalize effort

By Adrian Vigil | February 17, 2005

It is probably one of the biggest locker-room clichés in all of sports -- players looking within and figuring out how to win. It may be a cliché, but it worked last week for the Virginia women's basketball team.

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Prestigious tournament to test Virginia against elite

By Chris Marsh | February 17, 2005

For the Virginia men's tennis team, it is time to earn their top-10 ranking. The team is in Chicago today to participate in the prestigious USTA/ITA National Team Indoor Championships.

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Virginia freshman Treat Huey finishes junior career atop of national under-18 tennis rankings

By Cavalier Daily Staff | February 17, 2005

The final 2004 UTSA Boys Under-18 national rankings have come in -- and atop the list at No. 1 is Virginia freshman Treat Huey. Former top-ranked junior players in the USTA Boys Under-18 division include tennis superpowers Andy Roddick in 1999 and James Blake in 1997. Huey has had an important role on the men's tennis team so far this season, posting a 12-6 overall record in singles and an 11-3 record in doubles. Last month, Huey and fellow freshman Somdev Devvarman won the doubles title at the National Collegiate Tennis Classic in Palm Springs, Calif. Currently No.

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ACC To Give Instant Replay a Try

By Cavalier Daily Staff | February 17, 2005

At a recent winter conference meeting in Florida, Atlantic Coast Conference faculty representatives unanimously approved a plan proposed by the league's athletic directors to try instant replay for the 2005 football season. Instant replay has been a staple in the NFL since 1999 and was introduced to college football last year on a similar experimental basis in the Big Ten.

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Pete's annual hot seat cools

By Cavalier Daily Staff | February 16, 2005

Pete Gillen's annual "Save My Job" campaign hits a critical fork in the road tonight when his Cavaliers, riding a three-game winning streak to the outside fringes of the NCAA bubble, travel to Chapel Hill to face the No.

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Crew races to upper echelon of competition

By Holly Singh | February 16, 2005

The recipe for success for any college sports team calls for one ingredient: a love of the game -- Or, in this case, the race. If any team at the University knows about loving its sport, it is the men's rowing team.

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From hunter to hunted: Cavs embrace new role

By Patrick Mitchell | February 16, 2005

What a difference a year makes. Entering last season, the Virginia baseball team was mired in mediocrity.

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Women swim for third straight ACC title

By James Wagner | February 16, 2005

In sports, experience is everything. It is the factor that overcomes the jitters and fears of big-stage performance.

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Singletary earns ACC honor for fourth time

By Cavalier Daily Staff | February 16, 2005

The recent success the men's basketball team has experienced against the soft under-belly of the ACC earned freshman Sean Singletary the conference's Rookie of the Week honor for the fourth time this season. The Philadelphia native scored 19 points and added 12 rebounds while maintaining an impressive assist-to-turnover ratio of 9-to-1 in the Cavaliers' two home victories over Florida State and rival Virginia Tech. Singletary's best performance of the week came against the Hokies as he compiled 10 points, seven rebounds, seven assists and three steals in one of his most dynamic performances of the season after struggling since the beginning of conference play. This Saturday, the 6-foot point guard will have a tough assignment when Maryland point guard, John Gilchrist, comes to U-Hall.

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Ballard's comeback produces ACC accolade

By Cavalier Daily Staff | February 16, 2005

Virginia pitcher Mike Ballard's surgically-prepared left arm passed its first test with flying colors and helped the third-year pitcher receive the ACC's Pitcher of the Week award. In his first pitching appearance since the 2003 season, the Virginia Beach native led the Cavaliers to a 2-0 victory at UNC Wilmington on Feb.

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Virginia awaits chance to avenge home loss

By Barney Breen-Portnoy | February 16, 2005

The Virginia men's basketball team (13-9, 4-7 ACC) has been following a script of late that may seem very familiar to Cavalier hoops fans.

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Former Cavalier injured in bar fight

By Cavalier Daily Staff | February 15, 2005

Chris Canty, a former defensive lineman for the University of Virginia, was hurt in a nightclub in Scottsdale, Ariz.

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Softball loses close game to UNC

By Cavalier Daily Staff | February 15, 2005

The University lost a tight game, 3-2, to North Carolina on Sunday, finishing with a 2-3 overall record on the weekend road trip.

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Three assistants bring plethora of experience

By Kyle O'Connor | February 15, 2005

Glancing down the bench at a recent Virginia wrestling meet, three men stood out among the orange-and-blue-clad athletes going through their pre-game motions and head coach Lenny Bernstein. One was a light-haired man in his mid-twenties, calmly checking with officials and conversing with Cavalier head coach Bernstein before competition got under way.

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Cavs look to repeat as National Champs

By Cavalier Daily Staff | February 15, 2005

By Eric Ast Cavalier Daily Senior Writer When a team wins a championship, at some point after the trophy has been hoisted and the celebration has subsided -- and in some cases before the champagne has even dried -- the thoughts of the coaches, fans and players move to whether they'll be celebrating once again next season. While assessing a team's chances of repeating a championship win, the most immediate questions are which players the team is losing and who will be coming in to replace them.

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Sullivan breaks Virginia school record

By Cavalier Daily Staff | February 15, 2005

The Cavaliers track team competed in the Virginia Tech Challenge over the weekend as a tune-up for next week's ACC championships. David Sullivan broke his own school record in the pole vault with a second-place vault of 5.3 meters, which also qualified him for the NCAA tournament. Virginia also brought home second-place finishes in the men's and women's distance medley relays, junior Kellen Blassingame in the 400 and sophomore Alex Tatu in the mile.