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<title>Playing waiting game with recruits</title>
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<title>Hickman: Monumental task for WVU women</title>
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<title>Gold-Blue tradition scrapped for Geno</title>
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<title>Resilient describes this team</title>
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<title>Energizer Butler just keeps on going</title>
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Fri, 01 Jan 2010 22:02:39 -0500
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Sat, 19 Dec 2009 19:26:11 -0500
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<description><![CDATA[PISCATAWAY, N.J. - Ive always marveled at how people love to speak about sports in terms that are so definitive and so final, so downright black and white.Its kind of like politics, really. No, its exactly like politics. Those on the right and the left can...]]></description>
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Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:36:16 -0500
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Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:26:42 -0500
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Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:53:09 -0500
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Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:39:55 -0500
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Mon, 16 Nov 2009 23:23:32 -0500
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