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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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