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Rejuvenated Cavs seek to upset Terps

Coming off a compelling win on the road against Clemson, the No. 18 Virginia women?s basketball team will face Maryland tonight at John Paul Jones Arena.Virginia (16-4, 3-2 ACC) looks to stop a high-powered offense that has out-scored opponents by a total of 240 points, averaging 77.3 points per game this season.


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When the ball drops

For certain sports, the differences between professional teams and college athletic programs may no longer seem apparent, if drawing that distinction still makes sense at all.To illustrate this difference more fully, I think we can begin at the end of an informal spectrum of sports: the college club sport.


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Unconventional sprint format tests elite squad at Pittsburgh

Due to a sprint-heavy format, the Virginia men?s and women?s swimming and diving teams will have to bring an extra dose of vigor to Pennsylvania this weekend when they race Pittsburgh on Sunday.The Virginia men?s and women?s teams found perhaps their most triumphant success last weekend, proving superior to two ACC foes hailing from North Carolina: UNC and Duke.


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Artusios leave mark in classroom, community

Often clouded by the thrill of victory on the playing field in collegiate athletics today is the ?student? in the term ?student-athlete.? Danny and Kyle Artusio, identical twins on the Virginia wrestling team, however, uphold their titles as student-athletes while maintaining positive attitudes and strong work ethics.?If we are going to put our money where our mouth is and say we value character, they should mean a whole lot to the team because they are two of the most high-character guys I have ever met in my life,? coach Steve Garland said of the Artusios.


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The game we have to win

This past Saturday, N.C. State women?s basketball coach Kay Yow died at the age of 66, ending a bout with cancer that began in 1987.Yow was N.C.


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With horns blazing

About 15 minutes after the final buzzer went off Nov. 22, 2008 on Virginia football?s disappointing 13-3 loss to Clemson, something more amazing than the rest of the game day combined transpired on the field of Scott Stadium.Matt Taskey, a charter member of the Cavalier Marching Band, climbed up on a podium in front of more than 200 of his band mates, bid them farewell and received the loudest and longest standing ovation anyone this side of Dave Matthews has received for being part of a band in Charlottesville.The 2008 season ? CMB?s and Taskey?s fifth ? marked the final year the trumpet section leader would suit up in an orange, blue and white uniform, put that silly feather in a big blue hat and march a half-time show in front of 60,000 people.Taskey, whose official CMB membership ended this month, was one of the most special and interesting members of a band filled with special and interesting people.


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Lending a helping (fore)hand

With rankings of No. 5 and No. 41 in the NCAA respectively, the Virginia men?s and women?s tennis teams are making news for their performance between the lines.


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