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UVa. broke open a tight game with a 23-0 first-half run en route to blasting Hampton, 69-40, on Tuesday in Charlottesville. The Cavs (5-1) got off to a sluggish start against the Pirates. A jumper by Hampton’s Dionte Adams at the 9:59 mark tied the game at 16. A Joe Harris three-pointer on Virginia’s next possession gave UVa. the lead, but it was still 19-16 ‘Hoos at the 7:48 media timeout.
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Virginia Tech football coach Frank Beamer talks with the news media in advance of his team’s game at Virginia on Saturday. Virginia Tech (7-4, 4-3 ACC) has a chance to win the ACC Coastal Division title with a win over UVa. (2-9, 0-7 ACC) and a loss by Duke at North Carolina.
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One perspective on Mickey Matthews is that he should have been able to decide the day that he left JMU and even had a hand in picking the guy who would sculpt the statue to his tenure. You win a national championship and take a football program at a school that didn’t play football until 1972 to the precipice of FBS, and they eventually name the field after you.
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UVa. football coach Mike London talks with the news media in advance of Virginia’s season finale at home this weekend against in-state rival Virginia Tech. Virginia (2-9, 0-7 ACC) enters the game with an eight-game losing streak in 2013 and a nine-game losing streak in the series with the Hokies (7-4, 4-3 ACC).
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The Virginia women’s basketball team (3-2) suffered a 68-58 road loss to West Virginia (4-1) at the WVU Coliseum on Sunday. The Cavaliers found most of their offense from beyond the arc, making 10 three-pointers, shooting 45.5 percent (10-of-22) from long range. Senior guard Ataira Franklin had the first 20-point game of the season for the Cavaliers, finishing with 23.
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Brandon Taylor scored a game-high 25 points, including 16 in the second half, to lead Penn State University of the Big Ten Conference to a 93-67 men’s basketball victory past Longwood University on Sunday afternoon at the Bryce Jordan Center in University Park.
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Hydraulic fracturing (known as “fracking”) is a method of causing fissures in underground shale rock formations to facilitate the extraction of otherwise inaccessible natural gas and oil. In a typical fracking operation, drillers inject a mixture of pressurized water and chemicals underground to fracture the rock and free up the gas and oil.
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A 28-5 second-half run broke open a close game and pushed Virginia to a 75-53 win over in-state foe Liberty on Saturday. The ‘Hoos (4-1) led by as many as 12 points in the first half before the Flames cut into the lead with a 14-4 run. A late bucket by Darion Atkins put the lead at 32-26 at the half.
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There were fans across UVa. Nation who watched two plays of the 45-26 UVa. loss at Miami on Saturday: the opening kickoff and the first play from scrimmage, a botched wide-receiver screen that was intercepted and returned for a Miami touchdown and gave the ‘Canes a 7-0 lead six seconds into the game.
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How remarkable a President Mr. Kennedy was perhaps none of us realized until he was gone. Here (as in Finland, where I was on that tragic Friday – and in London, where I was a few days later) the feeling of personal loss on the part of leaders and men and women of the most ordinary existences was deep and profound.
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