The James River Cup is the name of the soccer rivalry between Virginian soccer club, the Richmond Kickers and the Virginia Beach Piranhas. The series formed in 1996 and was played at the professional level annually until 2007, when the Mariners disbanded as an organization. From 2008–09 the rivalry was played in the USL Premier Development League with the Richmond Kickers Future and the Virginia Beach Submariners, now known as the Piranhas. The rivalry ended in 2009 when the Kickers Future left the PDL.
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“A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.”
—James I of England, James VI of Scotland (1566–1625)
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Life is a bitter sage,
And we are weary infants
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—Allen Tate (1899–1979)