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Cavs hope to cut down Forest

Tomorrow evening in Winston-Salem, the Virginia football team will find itself in a must-win situation. Falling to 2-2 (1-1 ACC) with a sound defeat last week at the hands of then-No.


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Goodloe leads field hockey to in-state win

Maybe it was being on familiar home turf or maybe it was letting go of built-up anger. Whatever it was, something powered the Virginia field hockey team past in-state rival William & Mary last night.


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Feat of Clay

What was Brian Vahaly's reward for becoming just the second tennis player ever to compete in the finals for both singles and doubles at the T.


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Men's soccer suffers overtime loss to Tribe

Virginia freshman forward Alecko Eskandarian continued to pile up the goals, but he couldn't keep the Cavalier men's soccer team from swallowing a 3-2 overtime loss to unranked William & Mary last night in Virginia Beach. Tribe freshman Philip Hucles opened the scoring in the 50th minute and hammered home the game-winner in the 100th.


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Baber settles in as senior tight end

When most kids coming out of high school were trying to decide which college they should attend, Billy Baber had a unique choice to make: go to college on a football scholarship or make money playing professional baseball. Naturally, Baber took his mother's advice and decided to attend Virginia.


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Tired of your Saturday Cavaliers? Check in with the ones who play on Sunday

So there I was in my half-furnished living room two nights ago, watching "Monday Night Football" and putting off all kinds of very necessary homework, when Terrence Wilkins makes a 27-yard touchdown catch for the Indianapolis Colts. At about that point, it occurred to me that any self-pitying Cavalier fan worth his striped tie - you know, the ones for whom Virginia football is a potent, drunken mixture of khaki and halftime tailgating - had surely just raised his hands skyward and pined for the days when Wilkins wore No.


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Basketball surpasses stalled football 'corporation'

After Illinois performed a 63-21 woodshed job on his powerless Cavaliers in January, George Welsh promised a "reinvented corporation." Little did he know his refurbished pigskin machine would be the football equivalent of Crystal Pepsi. So I exaggerate. But the man with 185 victories to his name could never have guessed that media vultures would recite his memorable prophesy more often than the Preamble to the Constitution.


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Men's soccer downs UNC

CHAPEL HILL, N.C.-The Virginia men's soccer team showed resilience by coming back from a 1-0 halftime deficit yesterday to soundly defeat ACC rival North Carolina 3-1 on at Fetzer Field. The No.


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Moses grabs Olympic gold medal

After a silver medal finish in the 100-meter breaststroke last week in Sydney, former Virginia swimmer Ed Moses seized the Olympic gold Saturday as a member of the 4x100 medley relay team that smashed the world record by more than a second. Moses, Lenny Krayzelburg, Ian Crocker and Gary Hall Jr.


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After Wake loss, women's volleyball conquers FSU

The Virginia women's volleyball team lost in straight sets to Wake Forest Friday night but improved its mental approach and determination overnight to defeat Florida State, 3-1 (15-9, 14-16, 15-8, 15-6), and shoot back into the ACC title race. "Our match was just a mental test and we did really well tonight," Cav coach Melissa Aldrich Shelton said.

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