April 2, 2012
MARTINSVILLE, Va. (AP) — Ryan Newman needed help and was running out of time Sunday. Finally, Clint Bowyer provided an opening with two laps to go at Martinsville Speedway.
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April 1, 2012
MARTINSVILLE, Va. (AP) — Kasey Kahne is the first two-time pole winner of the season in NASCAR's Sprint Cup Series after he posted the fastest lap in qualifying Saturday at Martinsville Speedway. Kahne will start the race 27th in points, and he hope...
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March 30, 2012
MARTINSVILLE, Va. (AP) — Jimmie Johnson has gone from dominating NASCAR to watching others do it. Johnson won the last of his unprecedented five consecutive Sprint Cup championships in 2010. But he hasn't won in his last 11 races and has visited vic...
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February 3, 2012
BLACKSBURG, Va. -- Changes to the starting lineup. A team ban on social media. A bus ride to Blacksburg. Duke made lots of changes coming into its game at Virginia Tech on Thursday night, and the No. 7 Blue Devils put together one of their more complete p...
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January 20, 2012
BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) — John Henson didn't like the looks he saw on some of his teammates' faces at halftime when No. 8 North Carolina trailed Virginia Tech 39-34 and faced another packed arena rooting against them.Then Harrison Barnes and the Tar He...
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October 17, 2010
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — All week, North Carolina's players downplayed their streak of futility at Virginia, the one that had seen them lose 14 straight at Scott Stadium. And all week, defensive end Tim Jackson said, it was "pounded into our...
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September 13, 2010
BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) — On a Saturday filled with marquee matchups, the ACCs best got beat up all over. It looked more like the Atlantic Toast Conference.There was No. 13 Virginia Tech losing at home, 21-16, to James Madison of the Football Champions...
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May 4, 2010
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Yeardley Love was upon the best time of her life. The woman from Cockeysville, Md., who said she always dreamed of playing lacrosse at Virginia, was only weeks from earning a degree, and she and her teammates were anticip...
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March 29, 2010
MARTINSVILLE, Va. (AP) — Denny Hamlin surged to the front after a blunder and won the rain-delayed NASCAR race at Martinsville Speedway in a wild finish. The victory was Hamlin's second straight and came on the shortest, oldest track in the Sprint C...
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March 1, 2010
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — With a showdown at Maryland for the ACC title looming, Kyle Singler and Jon Scheyer gave No. 5 Duke exactly what it needed on Sunday night — a big lead and a chance to cruise to the finish.
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February 4, 2010
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Sylven Landesberg always attracts a lot of attention on offense, and on a night when he couldn't shoot, he found Virginia teammates that could. The whole team then made it really hard on North Carolina State to do the sam...
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October 30, 2009
BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) — Reeling after blowing a big lead and trying to keep its season from slipping away, North Carolina's players gathered themselves behind a resolve."This week, we just emphasized, 'How good could we be? Can we play a complet...
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April 1, 2009
MARTINSVILLE, Va. (AP) — The trophies NASCAR Sprint Cup Series winners get at tracks all over the country have become more and more creative, from the engraved boot at Texas to the cement monster for prevailing on the concrete Monster Mile at Dover...
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March 17, 2009
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — Dave Leitao resigned Monday as Virginia's men's basketball coach after the team's worst season in decades."Dave has been a respected colleague and a fine University representative in the local community during his tenure...
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March 5, 2009
BLACKSBURG, Va. — North Carolina coach Roy Williams found himself asking his team the same question after it lost on the road at Maryland that fans were asking early in the season when the Tar Heels opened ACC play with consecutive losses. "Are we tough...
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March 4, 2009
BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) - North Carolina coach Roy Williams found himself asking his team the same question after it lost on the road at Maryland that fans were asking early in the season when the Tar Heels opened Atlantic Coast Conference play with consecut...
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March 1, 2009
BLACKSBURG, Va. -- Kyle Singler stood on the end line trying to inbound the ball late in a tight game and suddenly found himself reaching back for his days as a high school quarterback. Seeing Greg Paulus waving at him and wide open on the other end of th...
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January 16, 2009
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- North Carolina's struggles appear to be over, and a return to basics with a big dose of Tyler Hansbrough and Ty Lawson made it look easy again. Hansbrough scored 28 points, Lawson had 19 with nine assists, and the No. 5 Tar Heels b...
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January 15, 2009
CHARLOTTESVILLE Va.(AP) - North Carolina's struggles appear to be over. Tyler Hansbrough scored 28 points, Ty Lawson had 19 and the No. 5 Tar Heels beat Virginia 83-61 Thursday night to snap a surprising two-game losing streak in the ACC. North Carolina......
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December 20, 2008
RICHMOND, Va. - Wake Forest got everything it needed from its first real road game: a stiff challenge, the need to be clutch in the final minutes and, most importantly, a victory. Jeff Teague scored 21 points and Chas McFarland had 20 points and 14 rebou...
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March 26, 2008
NORFOLK, Va. -- North Carolina got the stiff challenge it expected from Georgia, a team with just as much tradition and expectations of adding to its history. The second-ranked Tar Heels also showed why they are a cut above Tuesday night as Rashanda McCan...
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March 23, 2008
North Carolina has arrived at the NCAA women's tournament as a top regional seed and with designs on finishing with the national title this time. Duke will open against Murray State at College Park, Md., where the Blue Devils are public enemy No. 1. Carol...
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January 4, 2008
MIAMI -- Virginia Tech's season as the standard-bearer for a wounded community ended with a loss in the Orange Bowl. The Hokies tribute, though, was completed. Intent on honoring the 33 people killed and dozens injured in a campus massacre last spring and...
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November 8, 2007
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A southwest Virginia puppy mill that was home to more than 600 breeding females is now the site of a huge rescue operation, with the owner agreeing to relinquish nearly 1,000 dogs for treatment and possible adoption. "I can...
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