Save the Shield! A Vanderbilt sports blog

This week NYD and I appear to have repaired the bottleneck in our joint writing process (namely the sloth of PhilipVU94) and we got our ballot in on time. I can heartily endorse Google Wave for its online groupware (collaboration) functionality, although it is still beta - hit me up if you’d like [...]

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As I mentioned in the round table, SEC men’s hoops reminds me so much of ACC football this season that it’s scary.  Who’s the great team with momentum this week?   Well, LSU, but the other answer might surprise you. 

LSU - Post-Valentine discounted gift baskets go out to Ole Miss, Georgia, Vanderbilt, and Miss State for [...]

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I’m out of the hospital, but still not 100%.   Meanwhile, Jake voted Save the Shield’s ballot for this week in the SEC Power Poll: 

Kentucky
Florida
Tennessee
Vanderbilt
South Carolina
Mississippi State
LSU
Arkansas
Alabama
Mississippi
Auburn
Georgia

Rankings were mostly in line with Pomeroy’s.  Differences:
(1)  Florida above Tennessee due to my view that, although Florida once
again scheduled a very weak slate of OOC opponents that brings [...]

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