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Cavs buoyed by experienced players

If the Virginia men's soccer team is to live up to its No. 3 preseason ranking, it will have to take care of business at home. Virginia will play 13 of their 17 regular season matches at home, including their first four. Key home games include a rematch against the defending NCAA champion Maryland Terrapins, who handed the Cavaliers a pivotal 3-0 defeat in mid-October last season.


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USA Basketball: Return to glory?

In the 2004 Olympics, the United States basketball program was stripped of its manhood. It went 5-3, and though it was able to win the bronze, it faced the harsh reality that it was no longer in a class by itself in terms of basketball.


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Promise high for Cavs despite lack of depth

As its season opens, the Virginia women's soccer team finds itself plagued by injuries, short two of its best players and barely able to field an eleven-person squad. Enthusiasm, though, is not in short supply. "Maybe it's because all of these challenges we have in front of us already, but I can't remember a season I have been more excited for," coach Steve Swanson said. In the exhibition games against Notre Dame and Michigan, Virginia only had 12 field players.


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A kink in the rebuilding plans?

Note: Even though Jameel Sewell is currently injured after mauling his foot in the first-ever documented stationary bicycle accident, I still think this is a discussion we should be having.


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SPORTS IN BRIEF

Football practice opens Friday With the Sept. 2 season opener at Pittsburgh now less than a month away, the Virginia football team starts summer training camp Friday.


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Virginia picked to finish fourth in Coastal Division

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. -- With football season little more than a month away and practices starting next week, the Atlantic Coast Conference held its annual media Kickoff event Sunday through Tuesday at the Sawgrass Marriott in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.Sunday, the media voted in the pre-season poll and results were released early Monday afternoon.


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The world's a stage for QB Olsen

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. -- As both a drama major and a quarterback who has spent the past four years as a backup at both Notre Dame and Virginia, senior Christian Olsen knows something about being an understudy.

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