Article: Sugar-free Hokies as Virginia Tech falls to West Virginia.

Byline: Norm Wood

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. _ There was no more pacing the sidelines. There was no more exhorting his defense. Late in the third quarter of Virginia Tech's 28-7 loss to West Virginia on Wednesday night, coach Frank Beamer just stopped and stared.

He knew where this one was going, and he knew where the No. 3 Hokies' national championship aspirations were headed, too. Hope was starting to dwindle. It would be only a matter of time before thousands of Mountaineer fans were flooding the field. Sugar Bowl visions for the Hokies? Gone. Tailback Kevin Jones' Heisman Trophy dreams? Likely vanished, too.

Beamer knew it all, and there was nothing ...

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