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UMD takes two of three from Virginia softball

By Cavalier Daily Staff | April 21, 2008

Virginia softball lost two games of a three-game series to Maryland (32-15, 6-9 ACC) this weekend in its second-to-last ACC matchup of the season. The Cavaliers (14-33, 5-13 ACC) started off strong Saturday, taking the first game of a doubleheader 5-4 behind a complete game performance from junior Karla Wilburn, who held off a Maryland rally in the seventh for the win.

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Arts and drafts

By Zach Rowen | April 21, 2008

It is interesting how the athletes making the most noise this season are the ones not even playing a sport.

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Team heads to College Park to take down Terps

By Meredith Hulley | April 18, 2008

With its home schedule complete, the Virginia softball team will head to College Park this weekend for a three-game series against Maryland. Virginia (13-31, 4-11 ACC) will come into the game more rested than usual, as it did not play a midweek doubleheader this week, as it has for most of the season.

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Virginia faces Wake Forest in weekend series at Davenport

By Dan Stalcup | April 18, 2008

After stumbling in the final innings of Wednesday's game against No. 19 Coastal Carolina, No. 16 Virginia plans to shuffle its roster in preparation for a home weekend series against Wake Forest. The Cavaliers (29-10, 11-7 ACC) head into the weekend series against the Demon Deacons (14-22, 6-11 ACC) after winning five of their last six games. The three weekend games at Davenport Field are scheduled to begin Friday and Saturday at 6 p.m.

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Left-handers let loose in sophomore season

By Paul Montana | April 17, 2008

After former weekend starter Sean Doolittle and closer Casey Lambert were taken in the 2007 MLB draft?, Virginia coach Brian O'Connor faced the task of reshuffling a bullpen packed with the inexperience of six freshmen.

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Sports lingo 101

By Zach Rowen | April 17, 2008

Welcome to class. Today's topic is the history of sports phrases and traditions. It'll be a grab bag of sorts -- an eclectic mix of rituals and terms that have stuck with us throughout years of down-to-the-wire championship games, record-setting moments and slow-motion replays.

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Get on up, it's bobsled time

By Kevin Zdancewicz | April 17, 2008

This is my fourth and final semester writing a column for The Cavalier Daily Sports section, and each of the previous three semesters have included a look at a motion picture from the genre that I have dubbed the "Family Sports Movie" (FSM for short). In honor of the Olympics later this year (even though they are the Summer Games), I am going to round out the series with a look at the 1993 bobsled FSM "Cool Runnings." (Note: As always, if you haven't seen "Cool Runnings" and plan to at some point in the future (what are you waiting for?), you might want to stop reading now as I plan to discuss the plot in detail and ruin the ending, as you will soon find out.

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Golf heads to ACCs

By Cavalier Daily Staff | April 17, 2008

Both the men's and women's golf teams will travel to their respective ACC tournaments this weekend -- the men to The Old North State Club in New London, N.C.

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Twilight for the dream team

By Kyle O'Connor | April 16, 2008

Charlottesville was a zoo the morning of Aug. 28, 2004. Minivans were parked on medians, parents were sweating up stairs with mountains of clothes, and box fans were being revved up in every window. On that blazing hot summer day, the best group of athletes the University has seen in a long, long time moved.

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Cavs meet Coastal in midweek game

By Emily Bareford | April 15, 2008

Coming off of a weekend sweep of Maryland, Virginia baseball looks to carry its momentum into its toughest non-conference game this season against Coastal Carolina today at 5 p.m. Coastal Carolina (28-7, 7-2 Big South) is ranked No.

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Done with dynasties

By Eric Strow | April 15, 2008

I was reading this week's copy of Sports Illustrated, and just like writers from many other sports media outlets, SI writer Luke Winn has already made his predictions for next year's NCAA basketball season.

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