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Virginia cannot crown Monarchs

No. 12 Virginia field hockey fell to 2000 NCAA Champion Old Dominion, 3-2, yesterday at University Hall Turf Field after ODU managed to force 16 penalty corners to the Cavaliers' four. Senior co-captain Jessie Coleman and junior Katie Slocum both put the ball in the cage for Virginia (4-2), but it was not enough to top No.


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Young rejoins Cavaliers as softball coach Virginia softball coach Cheryl Sprangel announced yesterday that Meg Young will be a graduate assistant coach for the Cavaliers. Young is pursuing a master's in physiology with a concentration in strength and conditioning after graduating from Virginia with a degree in Spanish in May 2001. Young was a standout Cavalier during her playing days.


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See Woody Run: Dantzler

He stands 5-foot-11 and weighs in at 200 pounds. He can run and pass with remarkable ease. He bench-presses over 400 pounds - eighth highest on his team.


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Groh apologizes for insensitive comment

Virginia football coach Al Groh apologized yesterday for making an inconsiderate remark toward Arabs during the weekly ACC football coaches teleconference earlier in the day. "I am sorry if my remarks were insensitive," Groh said in a press release.


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NFL leaves country without a rallying point

The National Football League made a grave mistake this past weekend. Canceling the football games on Sunday was a cop-out. Now, before you begin to protest that I'm being insensitive and say that the NFL did the right thing and showed the utmost respect to the dead, hear me out.


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Florida State defensive end shot in back Seminole senior defensive end Eric Powell was shot in the right lower back early Sunday morning in Orlando in what appears to have been a confrontation with a robber.


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U.S. struggles to move at the speed of sorrow

America is a nation of speed and efficiency, invention and progression, industry and ingenuity. Most of all, it is a nation in motion, forging ahead, foot glued to the clutch beneath an "ain't nobody gonna take my pride, ain't nobody gonna hold me down, oh no ... I've got to keep on movin'" mantra. When the horse and buggy no longer sufficed, we cranked out a Model T.


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Eight Wyoming runners killed in crash Eight University of Wyoming track and field and cross-country athletes were killed early Sunday morning in a two-car collision 17 miles south of Laramie, Wyo.


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Coleman Hammers Away

The referee calls a corner. Mason White pushes the ball, Carrie Goodloe stops it and Jess Coleman hammers it into the goal with her favorite shot, a drag flick that goes airborne. Coleman wasn't always a power scoring field hockey forward.

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