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Here’s a sobering thought: a new AAA study reports that more than one in four motorists were so sleepy driving in the past month that they had a hard time keeping their eyes open while driving. The sleepiest driving group, according to the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety study: 19- to 24-year-olds, at 33 percent.
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Terry McAuliffe is seen as the lesser of two evils, mediocre choices, whatever, and thus seems poised to win the 2013 Virginia governor race.
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The top-ranked Virginia women’s soccer team posted its first 20-win season in school history as it downed Maryland 6-1 in an ACC Tournament quarterfinal Sunday in front of 2,349 fans at Klöckner Stadium. The Cavaliers (20-0) advance to meet Virginia Tech in Friday’s ACC semifinals in Cary, N.C., while the Terrapins (10-10) were eliminated from their final ACC Tournament.
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Andrey Semenov led JMU to a 73-69 overtime victory in a men’s basketball exhibition game against Philadelphia University on Sunday afternoon at the Convocation Center. Semenov accumulated a team-high 28 points, 13 of which came during overtime play, including a game-winning three-pointer with seven seconds to go.
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Fishburne, off to its first 8-0 start in football since 1913, will host North Cross in a state semifinal playoff game in Waynesboro on Saturday, Nov. 10. Kickoff is at noon for the playoff game at Fishburne Military School. FMS is the #2 seed in the Virginia Independent Schools state playoffs. North Cross is the #3 seed.
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Polls show Virginia voters didn’t like the 16-day federal government shutdown, and that the bulk of those voters blame Republicans for the shutdown. A new Democratic Party of Virginia TV ad, “Happy With It,” will remind voters on Election Day that Republican governor nominee Ken Cuccinelli was, well, happy with it.
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Scientists have discovered that nerve cells in the brain are unexpectedly varied in their genetic makeup, a surprising finding that may help explain schizophrenia, depression, bipolar disorder, autism and other such conditions thought to be genetically linked but not yet tied to a single gene.
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Remember the DIck Bestwick era? An entire generation of UVa. sports fans and alums are only familiar with the name because they read it somwhere once. Bestwick’s last team at Virginia went 1-10 in 1981, capping a 16-49-1 tenure.
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After the 96-yard Tajh Boyd-to-Sammy Watkins TD pass that made it 42-7 Clemson early in the third quarter, Clemson coach Dabo Swinney emptied the bench. “It was to give the other guys a chance to play. I believe in playing people. These guys practice hard, and they deserve to play,” said Swinney.
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I’m not second-guessing the move to can Reid in favor of Jon Tenuta, who followed associate head coach Tom O’Brien to UVa. after O’Brien and his staff were let go by N.C. State last year. Reid’s defense ranked fourth in the ACC last year, which is to say, it wasn’t the Virginia defense that was to blame for last year’s 4-8 debacle.
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