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Virginia plays host to Dukes

The Virginia volleyball team will try to build upon a straight-game victory over Texas-Pan American Saturday when it hosts JMU tonight at University Hall at 7 p.m. The Cavaliers (1-2) traveled to Texas to compete in the Time Warner Cable Texas Invitational.


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Cavaliers regroup after injury-plagued game

The status of the Virginia players injured in Saturday's game at Florida State remains uncertain, Virginia head coach Al Groh told reporters at his weekly press conference. During Virginia's (0-2, 0-1 ACC) 40-19 loss to the fifth-ranked Seminoles (2-0, 1-0), approximately 10 players left the game with various degrees of injuries.


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Former Seminole standout Weinke demoted in Carolina Former Florida State quarterback Chris Weinke, who won the Heisman Trophy in 2000 after leading the Seminoles to the national championship, has been benched by the Carolina Panthers in favor of backup Rodney Peete. Weinke holds the Florida State and ACC records for career passing with 9,839 yards and won the Davey O'Brien and Johnny Unitas quarterback trophies in addition to the Heisman.


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Sudden death goal gives Cavs victory

On a day when the field hockey team did not execute particularly well on offense or defense, a perfectly performed corner rescued the Cavaliers from Ohio in sudden death overtime. After leading the entire game, Virginia (1-0) allowed two goals from the Bobcats (0-1) in the last 10 minutes of regulation, forcing the game into overtime with the score tied at 2-2. With a little less than 2:30 remaining in sudden death, senior Cara Unterkofler entered the ball to sophomore Emily Beach, who stopped the ball and shuffled it to senior Kelli Hill. Hill then powered a slap shot from the top of the circle past Ohio goalie Ashley Pitkin to give the Cavaliers a 3-2 victory. Virginia seemingly had the game in hand from the start.


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Seminoles run past Cavs to take win

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Florida State chopped up Virginia for the first three quarters on Saturday before quarterback Matt Schaub replaced starter Marques Hagans, and was able to direct the Cavaliers toward three aerial touchdowns in the game's final stanza. The Seminoles (2-0, 1-0 ACC) continued their dominance over both Virginia and the ACC on Saturday, defeating the Cavaliers (0-2, 0-1) 40-19 in front of 79,406 fans at Doak Campbell Stadium in Tallahassee, Fla.


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Virginia freshmen go through growing pains

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. By now it should be easy for most students to imagine the first day of college classes -- the confusion, the nervousness, the uncertainty. But for a moment, imagine that on your first day of your first year, still wet behind the ears, you find that all of your classmates are Lawn residents, aspiring Rhodes scholars and future millionaires.


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Men's basketball to open season against Chaminade The University's men's basketball team will open up the season at the EA Sports Maui Invitational in Hawaii on Nov.


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Field hockey debuts 2002 campaign at home with Ohio

As the field hockey team looks ahead to its first game of the season, a home contest scheduled for Saturday against Ohio University, the team merely wants to keep it simple. "What we're trying to do is play really simple," senior midfielder Cara Unterkofler said.


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Virginia set to battle Seminoles on Saturday

Both the Virginia Cavaliers (0-1, 0-0 ACC) and the No. 5 Florida State Seminoles (1-0, 0-0) faced game-deciding plays in the closing seconds of their respective openers last week. The Seminoles resisted Iowa State's surge on the last play, tackling quarterback Seneca Wallace at the goal line to preserve their 38-31 win.


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Kentucky to challenge Virginia in tourney

The No. 5 Virginia men's soccer team can only hope that the third time will be the charm. After two losses during the preseason Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne Soccer Showcase exhibition matches -- to the Spartans of Michigan State and the No.


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Virginia senior wide receiver Billy McMullen was among 32 players selected for the "watch list" for the Fred Biletnikoff award, given annually to the nation's top receiver.


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The American baseball solution: Strike!

Baseball players should strike. No, I didn't leave out a word there. They should strike and stay on strike until they are treated like the majority of American workers -- fairly. It is natural for us to like the players and not the greedy owners, much as workers like their co-workers and not their boss.


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Team Cavalier broadens horizons past basketball

No matter what the average Wahoo remembers from last year of the men's basketball student fan group, students should now expect a revamped Team Cavalier. "Last year it was basically just a men's basketball student group," said Derik Diver, the newly hired Athletic Department liaison for Team Cavalier.


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Bailey named finalist for Rimington Trophy The Rimington Trophy Committee named Virginia football player Kevin Bailey as one of 36 finalists for its award.


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Freshman running back Wali Lundy was named ACC Rookie of the Week after carrying the ball 20 times for a team-high 94 yards.

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Ahead of Lighting of the Lawn, Riley McNeill and Chelsea Huffman, co-chairs of the Lighting of the Lawn Committee and fourth-year College students, and Peter Mildrew, the president of the Hullabahoos and third-year Commerce student, discuss the festive tradition which brings the community together year after year. From planning the event to preparing performances, McNeil, Huffman and Mildrew elucidate how the light show has historically helped the community heal in the midst of hardship.