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          <title>Hall does it all for Cavaliers</title>
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All week long, the Hokies had heard whispers that Virginia might have a few tricks up its sleeves for the 90th clash between the crusty old rivals.
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          <title>Cavs must limit their mistakes to beat Hokies</title>
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On paper, the series between Virginia and Virginia Tech is so lopsided that the Cavaliers could just mail this one in.
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          <title>Verica goes through ups and downs</title>
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Marc Verica has thrown more passes than any other ACC quarterback this season. He&#8217;s also thrown more interceptions.
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          <title>Offensive woes sink Virginia</title>
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If the age-old axiom is true that fans remember what teams do in November, then Virginia hasn&#8217;t given its followers much to reminisce about.
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          <title>Copper not unwanted any longer</title>
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When Jon Copper graduated from Jim Hickam&#8217;s Northside High School program six years ago, there were no offers waiting for him to play college football.
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          <title>Verica could hold the key to end of UVa&#8217;s swoon</title>
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At last glance, Virginia quarterback Marc Verica was sitting outside the locker room down in Winston-Salem, N.C., still absorbing a stinging loss to Wake Forest.
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          <pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:01:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Decorated group set to finish UVa tenure</title>
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Virginia&#8217;s seniors really don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s about to hit them this Saturday when they say goodbye to Scott Stadium.
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          <title>Groh gets confidence  vote from Littlepage</title>
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Virginia director of athletics Craig Littlepage has given Groh more than a vote of confidence. And, yeah, we know the old adage that a vote of confidence is usually the kiss of death.
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          <title>Groh hopes to emulate Grobe&#8217;s use of redshirts</title>
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Virginia will get an up-close look today at the Great Redshirting Experiment when the Cavaliers take on Wake Forest in a game that neither team can afford to lose.
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          <pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 23:47:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Green had to wait to make his UVa mark</title>
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When Jared Green hauled in his first career touchdown catch against Miami last Saturday, it&#8217;s a good bet that his father was more excited about it than was the young Virginia receiver.
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          <pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:52:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Cavaliers ignore Hurricane warnings</title>
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Never leave a wounded lion. That&#8217;s one of the laws of the jungle, an age-old tenet that Virginia&#8217;s football team forgot on Saturday and it cost the Cavaliers dearly.
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          <title>Line play keys UVa&#8217;s resurgence</title>
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Certainly, there have been many factors in Virginia&#8217;s reversal of fortunes on the football field over the past month: a quarterback who gets it, a tough-minded defense, the return of Cedric Peerman and Kevin Ogletree&#8217;s ability to stretch opposing defenses, just to name a few. One that is often overlooked is the steady improvement of the offensive line.
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          <title>A lot can change in one month</title>
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For now, the villagers have put away their torches and pitchforks. It isn&#8217;t Al Groh&#8217;s head they want, but rather the continuance of Virginia&#8217;s current four-game winning streak.
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          <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:49:01 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Peerman&#8217;s return keeps paying off for Cavaliers</title>
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Virginia offensive coordinator Mike Groh learned a long time ago, that when in doubt, hand the ball to Cedric Peerman.
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          <title>UVa needs to add a road win to its resume</title>
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The more Virginia wins, the more accolades come the Cavaliers&#8217; way. While channel surfing the past few nights, I couldn&#8217;t help but notice all the warm comments directed toward UVa football coach Al Groh.
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          <title>Johnson&#8217;s offense passes early tests</title>
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Shortly after Paul Johnson arrived at Georgia Tech last winter, all he heard from critics was that his option-style offense wouldn&#8217;t work in a league like the ACC.
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          <title>&#8216;Cardiac Cavs&#8217; back at Scott</title>
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For weeks now, the Cavaliers have been struggling to find their identity as a football team, and after Saturday night&#8217;s dramatic, 16-13 upset over No. 18 North Carolina, Al Groh said his team had discovered it.
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          <pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2008 21:45:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Peerman&#8217;s comeback ignites Cavaliers</title>
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We have all become addicted to watching Cedric Peerman&#8217;s bone-jarring runs. Fans, coaches, media &#8212; we all expect excitement every time Virginia&#8217;s No. 37 touches the ball.
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          <title>Tarheel&#8217;s Robinson lives the good life</title>
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On paper, Georgia native David Robinson is the favorite heading into today&#8217;s opening round of the $200,000 Egolf Tarheel Tour championships at two area courses.
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          <title>Tar Heels feel the pressure in C&#8217;ville</title>
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Wahoo fans simply refer to it as &#8220;The Streak.&#8221; Tar Heel fans consider it more of a curse.
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          <pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:41:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Captain Groh&#8217;s calm hand sinks Pirate ship</title>
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Down 6-0 late in the first quarter, things could have snowballed on Virginia&#8217;s football team Saturday.
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          <pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 18:06:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Cavs&#8217; Verica comes into his own</title>
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Last week was one of the bittersweet experiences of Marc Verica&#8217;s young life.
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          <pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:54:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Holtz lives up to his famous surname</title>
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Don&#8217;t expect to see East Carolina football coach Skip Holtz calling in to ESPN&#8217;s &#8220;Dr. Lou&#8221; segment any time soon. That&#8217;s where coaches and players call in to see the advice of &#8220;Dr. Lou,&#8221; who in reality is former coaching great Lou Holtz, who just happens to be Skip&#8217;s father.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:07:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Cavaliers&#8217; offense gets a tuneup</title>
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It was no coincidence that the revival of Virginia&#8217;s offense on Saturday night coincided with a resurgence of the Cavaliers&#8217; running game in a stunning 31-0 pummeling of Maryland.
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Kevin Ogletree was sitting around chewing the fat with a bunch of sportswriters the other day when he recollected all of the Virginia quarterbacks that had thrown him a pass during his career.
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          <title>What might have been for Virginia</title>
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With turmoil swirling around Groh after the Cavaliers&#8217; 1-3 start, fans are looking for reasons as to why the program is struggling in the coach&#8217;s eighth year on the job.
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Virginia&#8217;s football season threatened to burst at the seams on Saturday when the Cavaliers committed the ACC&#8217;s version of the unforgivable sin. They lost to Duke.
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          <title>An old rivalry &#45; with new intensity</title>
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There seems to be an attempt on Tobacco Road to rekindle the football rivalry between Virginia and Duke, two desperate teams that clash today at high noon in Durham.
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          <title>Groh hopes for sweet music from new starter</title>
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A year ago, Marc Verica was buried on Virginia&#8217;s quarterback depth chart. He was fourth behind then-starter Jameel Sewell, true freshman backup Peter Lalich and senior Scott Deke.
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          <title>Quarterback the least of Cavs&#8217; worries</title>
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After all of the hullabaloo, it really didn&#8217;t matter who suited up at quarterback for Virginia on Saturday night against Connecticut. Johnny Unitas could have been taking the snaps and the Cavaliers would have still been under whelming.
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Didn&#8217;t take long for Al Groh to sum up the challenge in traveling to Connecticut for this Saturday&#8217;s game against the Huskies. All the Virginia coach had to do was remember back to last year&#8217;s 17-16 win over UConn in Scott Stadium.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Defense saves UVa from loss</title>
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When Virginia designated Saturday&#8217;s football date with Richmond as its &#8220;retro game,&#8221; the Cavaliers weren&#8217;t counting on having to rely on winning in the same fashion as last year.
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          <title>Saluting some of UVa&#8217;s best</title>
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One hundred and twenty years of Virginia football and only one Cavalier team managed to win 10 games in one season: the 1989 squad.
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It didn&#8217;t take long for the naysayers to come out of the woodwork and declare the 2008 Virginia football season officially over.
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Lalich, the golden arm from West Springfield High School, the kid who was groomed to be a passing quarterback from early on, launched his ownership of the Virginia quarterback job under the sternest test on Saturday. Southern California&#8217;s veteran defense threw everything it had at the young right-hander and he survived.
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In perhaps the biggest home opener in nearly a quarter of a century, the nation&#8217;s best football program over the past six years will bring a national spotlight to Charlottesville. While the oddsmakers and the naysayers don&#8217;t give Groh&#8217;s Cavaliers a snowball&#8217;s chance, don&#8217;t tell the Wahoos.
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Last year was a good time to be Dave Borbely, in his second season as Virginia&#8217;s offensive line coach. From stem to stern, he had veteran linemen at every spot, including first-round NFL draft choice Branden Albert at guard. That was last year.           ]]></description>
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Point is, football is a lot more fun when teams are competing against the best and that&#8217;s what this Saturday is all about. Southern California, the best college football program in the country this decade, comes to town for a 3:30 p.m. showdown with Al Groh&#8217;s Wahoos.
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Cedric Peerman and Mikell Simpson combined last season for 1,155 yards rushing, 501 yards receiving, 15 touchdowns and a whole lot of headaches for defensive coordinators.            ]]></description>
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Paul Kane and 15 other players will tee it up this morning in the second annual match play event that boasts the top 16 finishers and alternates from the season-long Battle Trophy competition. Two rounds will be played today, with the semifinals and finals set for Sunday.
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A nose tackle can play a perfect game and almost no one would know &#8212;there&#8217;s not a lot of glory tossed their way.           ]]></description>
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Don&#8217;t expect any long-winded conversations with Virginia starting cornerback Ras-I Dowling. If a question can be answered in 20 words, Ras-I can do it in 10.
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John Swofford said Tuesday morning that if some think the ACC has a post-expansion image problem, he doesn&#8217;t share that opinion.
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When Clemson rewarded Tommy Bowden with a lucrative contract during the winter, expectations soared as high as his new salary. Bowden had flirted with an offer from Arkansas until Clemson opened its coffers.           ]]></description>
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After the grades from the first semester were compiled, Sewell was placed on an academic suspension for the next two consecutive semesters, meaning he would miss spring practice and this coming season. So, Groh and his staff were forced to find another quarterback and return to a different style of play.
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Grove went out like a champion, made the birdie for a final round of 1-under par 69 and a two-shot victory with a three-day total of 3-under 207.
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The city championship has been the most unpredictable of all the local major tournaments over the past two decades.           ]]></description>
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If you&#8217;re wondering why Virginia was eager to host the NBA Top 100 Camp the past two years, look no further than Sylven Landesberg.
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          <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:05:00 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Golfers seek their &#8216;Big Break&#8217;</title>
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Brian Skatell has a story to tell, and he has his fingers crossed that The Golf Channel&#8217;s &#8220;Big Break&#8221; series will be the avenue.
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          <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 23:33:00 EST</pubDate>
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Thirty-one golf balls sailed simultaneously down the 14th fairway at Farmington Country Club, each a memory of the late Bill Battle and what he meant to those assembled to celebrate his life.
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          <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:24:00 EST</pubDate>
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The good doctor served not only the University of Virginia&#8217;s athletic teams and the general community here over that span, but also made regular trips to William &amp; Mary, Richmond, VMI, even what was then Ferrum Junior College many moons ago. He would travel the state helping high school and college athletes recover from serious injuries suffered in their respective sports.
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          <pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2008 22:39:00 EST</pubDate>
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Albemarle High School&#8217;s baseball team was accustomed to bouncing back from adversity. In fact, the Patriots thrived on such situations.
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          <pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 01:18:00 EST</pubDate>
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While many of his accomplishments, coming to John Kennedy and PT 109&#8217;s rescue during World War II, helping Kennedy win the presidential election, serving as ambassador to Australia, running a major corporation, running for governor of Virginia, and many other deeds, have been well-documented in this newspaper the past two days, we knew Battle more from the golfing perspective.
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When Virginia gained back-to-back commitments from football prospects in the talent-rich Tidewater recruiting area this week, more than a few eyebrows were raised.
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          <pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 22:34:00 EST</pubDate>
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Beware of Ben Rubeor, Virginia&#8217;s star goal producer on a Cavalier lacrosse team headed back to the Final Four.
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          <pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 23:10:00 EST</pubDate>
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There&#8217;s a note that&#8217;s been sitting on Dom Starsia&#8217;s desk for almost two years, one of his keepsakes from the 2006 national lacrosse championship that Virginia won under his direction.
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          <pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 22:46:00 EST</pubDate>
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When sixth-ranked UMBC, billed as the hottest lacrosse team in the nation with 11 straight wins, came to rain-soaked Klockner Stadium on Sunday, needless to say Virginia was ready.           ]]></description>
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More than 20 years had passed since Gus Gerard last set foot in Charlottesville. That&#8217;s when his life began to crumble as a result of his addiction to drugs and alcohol - an addiction that cost him his family, friends, and a small fortune accumulated as a pro basketball player.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 22:47:01 EST</pubDate>
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When Brad Butler starred at right tackle for Virginia&#8217;s football team, he was dead serious about the game. However, he wasn&#8217;t a one-dimensional guy.
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          <pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2008 22:52:00 EST</pubDate>
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When Jim Dombrowski came to the University of Virginia in the early 1980s, he figured his future was in medicine and not on the gridiron.
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          <pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 23:11:00 EST</pubDate>
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Virginia&#8217;s players claimed they blocked any thoughts about Duke from their minds all week leading up to this weekend&#8217;s ACC Men&#8217;s Lacrosse Tournament. First, the Cavaliers had to deal with Maryland, a team that had beaten them soundly a month ago at College Park.
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Perhaps it was God&#8217;s plan to reunite the &#8220;West Virginia Rifles&#8221; one more time last month in Charlotte at the ACC men&#8217;s basketball tournament.
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The tight end is a forgotten soul in some of today&#8217;s aerial circus offenses.
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Lacrosse, which has grown by leaps and bounds in recent years, has become a real hit in Charlottesville. A school-record crowd of 7,579 showed up for Virginia&#8217;s home victory over Johns Hopkins that day.
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When Dave Leitao walked out of Virginia&#8217;s locker room the night that the Cavaliers&#8217; basketball season came to an uneventful close last week, he chose his last words carefully.
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When incumbent quarterback and two-year starter Jameel Sewell was declared academically ineligible after UVa&#8217;s loss in the Gator Bowl, the focus turned toward Peter Lalich, one of the nation&#8217;s most highly sought-after prospects two years ago, and his fellow quarterbacks.           ]]></description>
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The phrase student-athlete gets thrown around rather loosely in our society these days. While covering sports for three decades, this columnist has interviewed some &#8220;student-athletes&#8221; that couldn&#8217;t spell &#8216;cat&#8217; if you spotted them the &#8216;a&#8217; and the &#8216;t.&#8217;
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So ended Virginia&#8217;s basketball season with a 96-85 setback by the Braves from Peoria, a team that was better than its 20-15 record may have suggested.           ]]></description>
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When the smallest player on the floor launched a confident shot from beyond the arc with seconds remaining in overtime, it proved to be the dagger that ended, or perhaps just delayed, Virginia&#8217;s return to the NCAA&#8217;s Sweet 16.           ]]></description>
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Groh appeared to completely understand where his critics were coming from when he was grilled about the Wyoming massacre and the state of UVa&#8217;s football program. POST YOUR COMMENTS           ]]></description>
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Scattershooting around the ACC, while wondering what scalpers will be asking for UVa-Duke tickets on Thursday ...           ]]></description>
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