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Conference breakdown of the NBA 04-05 season

By Jesse Epstein | November 4

Shaq's in South Beach. KMart's a mile high (and so is Carmelo). Nash is in the Valley of the Sun, and 'Toine is in the ATL. This NBA season promises to be one of the most interesting, if not most competitive ever. Storylines are abundant on every team, from expansion to divorce to firesales. Superstars are unhappy, rookies are untested, and most of all, every team is undefeated (except the Rockets, Kings and Nuggets) as we begin play in 2004-2005.

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Eagles come back to quake UPenn

By Ian Quillen | November 4

With a chance to host the Patriot League tournament hinging on Saturday's match at Lafayette, the AU Men's Soccer team could've overlooked Wednesday's nonconference clash with visiting Pennsylvania. Perhaps that's what happened early. But trailing 1-0 at halftime, the once-groggy Eagles awoke, harased the Quakers throughout the rest of the match and won, 2-1, in overtime on senior forward David Marut's game-winning header.

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Basketball 'teams' wait in sad state

By Phil Turner | November 1

Sports columnist Phil Turner discusses the decline of the NBA and basketball in the United States.

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AU on brink of PL title

By Ian Quillen | November 1

The AU Men's Soccer team boosted its Patriot League regular-season title hopes Saturday, dismissing Army, 2-0, in an afternoon affair at West Point, N.Y. Senior midfielder Shawn Kuykendall and senior forward David Marut each scored second-half goals for the Eagles.

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Men's XC takes PL hat trick

By Ian Quillen | November 1

The AU Men's Cross Country team easily snagged its third straight Patriot League title Saturday at the PL championships in Lewisburg, Pa. Senior Pat McAdie seized the individual title by completing the 5-mile course in 25:37.00. But he was only a portion of the big story - one-quarter of it, to be exact.

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Sports Briefs

November 1

Two sports briefs from The Eagle's Sports Desk: a draw for womens' soccer and volleyball's continuing success.

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Golf ends fall season with another loss

By David Bergman | October 28

In what has become a sort of regular ritual, the AU Men's Golf team traveled to North Carolina with high hopes and came back with disappointment. Playing without senior and emotional leader Phil Kief, the Eagles stumbled and slipped their way to an 11th-place finish at the Old Dominion University/Seascape Collegiate Invitational in Kitty Hawk, N.C.

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Count Down: Top 10 things to do without the World Series

October 28

The Eagle sports staff is here to remind you that life goes on after the World Series. Here are the top 10 things to do now that game 4 is over.

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Sideline Scholars: The 'Schill' of victory: Curt becomes hero

By Jesse Epstein | October 28

Sports columnist Jesse Epstein composes an ode to Curt Schilling, the man who "delivered the Boston Red Sox to the threshold of heaven's door because they took a chance on an over-the-hill, past-his-prime hurler who left the desert heat for crisp, autumn air."

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Sports Brief: Men's and Women's Tennis travel to ITA East Regionals tournament and leave empty-hande

By Jesse Epstein | October 28

The AU Tennis teams took their show on the road to the Wilson/Intercollegiate Tennis Association's Regional Tournaments this past weekend. In Philadelphia, the women's team was represented by sophomores Julia Colarusso and Rachael Honig. Participating in their first ITA Regionals, Colarusso and Honig lost, 8-3, to Quinnipiac.

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Eagles rumble past towson, ready for the pl tourney

By Ian Quillen | October 28

The AU Field Hockey team closed its regular season with a convincing 4-1 win against the Towson Tigers on Wednesday afternoon. Sophomore Heidi Herschberger and freshman Denise Infante formed an attacking duo, each scoring twice for the Eagles, who improved to 16-2 on the year.

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Sports Brief: Morgan State, who? Eagles dictate, dominate and destroy in Bender

By Phil Turner | October 28

Senior Natacha Cornaz led the AU Eagles Volleyball squad to a dominant 3-0 sweep of the Morgan State Bears on Tuesday night in Bender Arena. Cornaz, who has been plagued by injuries all season, tallied a career-high 18 kills. She sparked the Eagles early with six kills in eight attempts in Game 1, and finished the night with only one error in 27 swings.

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Sports Brief: Field Hockey proves dominance by taking down No. 20 Syracuse in late inter-league matc

By David Bergman | October 25

The eighth-ranked AU Women's Field Hockey team completed a weekend series that saw it wrap up a perfect Patriot League regular season and defeat No. 20 Syracuse. On Saturday's first game, the Eagles defeated Colgate 5-2 to finish up Patriot League play with a perfect 5-0-0 record.

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Volleyball's rocky start doesn't matter

By Ian Quillen | October 25

The AU Volleyball squad started the second half of the Patriot League season on the same strong footing that it started the first - by sweeping Navy, 3-0, on Thursday night in Bender Arena. Senior Erin Algaier led the Eagles with 18 kills, while junior Cutrina Biddulph produced another strong effort, contributing 14 kills in the win.

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Club Sports Brief:

By Ian Quillen | October 25

The AU Men's Rugby team advanced to the Potomac Rugby Union semifinals Saturday, flying past the Johns Hopkins Blue Jays, 29-12, at the National Rugby Pitch on the National Mall. Kevin Gemmingen and Nick Profita broke through with first-half tries for the Eagles. Though the ensuing conversions failed after each try, the Eagles still had a commanding 10-0 lead going into halftime.

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Sports Brief: Eagles lose in heartbreaking double overtime match against Bucknell, in second straigh

By Ryan Sherwin | October 25

The AU Women's Soccer team lost its second straight game for the first time this year after a 3-2 heartbreaking loss to Bucknell Universityon Saturday at Reeves Field. Bucknell's Krista Lee Gentile notched the game-winner with less than five minutes left in the second overtime.

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Field Hockey proves dominance by taking down No. 20 Syracuse in late inter-league match

By Ian Quillen | October 25

The eighth-ranked AU Women's Field Hockey team completed a weekend series that saw it wrap up a perfect Patriot League regular season and defeat No. 20 Syracuse. On Saturday's first game, the Eagles defeated Colgate 5-2 to finish up Patriot League play with a perfect 5-0-0 record.

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