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Closing time

Still recovering from her team's crushing defeat to Tennessee in the NCAA Tournament third round Sunday, Virginia point guard Renee Robinson took time to look back.


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Lady Vols bounce Cavs from NCAA

MEMPHIS-The Virginia women's basketball team made an early second-half run, but a physically overpowering Tennessee squad regained a huge lead and rolled into the NCAA Elite Eight.


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Moses sets pair of world records in breaststroke

Virginia breaststroker Ed Moses shattered a pair of world short course records this weekend at the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships, leading the Cavalier men to a 12th-place team finish. Moses captured the second and third NCAA titles in Virginia men's swimming history, taking the gold in the 100- and 200-meter breaststroke.


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Deacs defeat baseball twice in weekend tilt

The Virginia baseball team overcame a six-run deficit to beat Wake Forest Saturday but could not muster enough offense to recover from a middle-inning explosion by the Demon Deacons yesterday, as Wake grabbed a 13-5 victory to win the three-game series at the U.Va.


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Softball struggles in Hoo's Who tourney

An agonizing weekend for the Virginia softball team ended yesterday with two losses in the Hoo's Who Tournament and a half-hour postgame team meeting. After the Cavaliers (11-25) squandered a two-run lead and Penn State took a 7-4 extra-inning win in the second game of a doubleheader, coach Cheryl Sprangel held a lengthy meeting in rightfield with the demoralized players.


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After graduation, Widger sticks with lax

When Virginia fifth-year senior Ashley Widger walked off the field after the Cavaliers' 16-6 loss to Maryland in last season's NCAA women's lacrosse championship game May 16, it seemed to mark the end of her collegiate career.


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At NCAAs, medley relay finishes fourth

In the first of three days of competition, the No. 7 Virginia men's swimming team began the 2000 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships with strong performances from its 400-meter medley relay team and senior Austin Ramirez. The medley foursome of sophomores Chris Mousetis and Ed Moses, junior Troy Johnson and senior Doak Finch finished fourth with a time of 3:33.47. Ramirez swam a 3:47.76 in the 400 freestyle to take eighth.


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Virginia women head to Memphis to tackle Vols

The Virginia women's basketball team hopes to infect top-seeded Tennessee with the March Madness bug by upsetting the six-time national champions Saturday in Memphis. The fourth-seeded Cavs (25-8) advanced to their first Sweet Sixteen appearance in three years Sunday by defeating fifth-seeded Boston College 74-70.


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NCAA should use common sense

And you thought the movie "Magnolia" was impossible to understand - try explaining the NCAA to your friends. In recent weeks, the governing body of intercollegiate athletics has sent more mixed signals than your average soap opera femme fatale. I could ramble on and on about the convoluted sagas of Erick Barkley, DerMarr Johnson and Chris Porter, but I'll save you the confusion by focusing on two of the most twisted tales of all: the sad stories of Jamal Crawford and Nate Webster. Crawford, a precocious swingman on the Michigan basketball team, was suspended by the NCAA for eight games this season because he declared his eligibility for the NBA draft the summer prior to his freshman campaign in Ann Arbor. Related Links NCAA online University of Miami football University of Michigan men's basketball Makes perfect sense, right?

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