Save the Shield! A Vanderbilt sports blog

It’s not a huge deal but this quote caught my attention in the transcript of this week’s teleconference from Stallings and Donovan:

Can you talk about VU’s offensive production lately?
I think at least what happened to us Tuesday night was we just missed some at the beginning, missed some layups and some open jumpers, [...]

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One of the joys of getting more involved in the college sports blogosphere has been finding the sort of longer analytical articles that I always expected to be better-suited to blogs and less-well-suited to message boards.
This one is only directly related to us in that it discusses the Week 1 play of our rival and [...]

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I realize that no one but me is thinking about anything but football now, so I’ll keep these short.
1. Actually the game I’m most eagerly anticipating tomorrow is the US men’s soccer team’s World Cup qualifier against Cuba in La Habana, the first visit there in 61 years. I know absolutely nothing about [...]

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Sorry for the outages and strange stuff showing up here.   It’s working now.
Here’s what I would have posted if it had saved:
For those of us who like to follow Commodore teams in a number of different sports, today is kinda fun:
I realize I’ve been giving the baseball team short shrift, and it’s really not intentional.   [...]

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The WBB team’s success reminds me that there is life after the end of MBB season and before I really get into baseball. In their honor, it’s time to review some of the other winter and spring sports that no one really cares about, so that I can elicit a groan from the [...]

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I suppose if there’s a time to take a couple-of-week hiatus from writing about Vanderbilt sports, this would be the best time other than the summer to do it.
I did mean to write a season retrospective, but frankly, the way the season ended was so insipid that it’s hard to feel like writing about it. [...]

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With all my annoyance over the abortive liveblog and all the other non-rev stuff going on the past couple of days, i feel like i’ve given short shrift to the
2007 SEC BASEBALL
CHAMPIONS
[Photos go here if i ever get around to sending them from my phone.]
So let’s look at this in context. What’s on [...]

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I won’t be around to comment for a while, but here’s a reminder and some links:
W Tennis: #1 Stanford - #16 Vanderbilt, Athens, GA: live link .  Busy live stats board they’ve got there.  You can even track the points. Looks like we’re clawing for the doubles point.  [...]

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 Gah, i never found wi-fi i could connect to, and trying to blog from the standing-room patio was just too much.  It was quite a game though, with Price just brilliant. The postgame was extremely odd.  Kudos to VU for getting the Ole Miss feed over the PA for [...]

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So much going on in VU sports.
Women’s golf (NCAAs): First off, i should correct my misconception in my previous golf posts. Today was the final day of play in Ann Arbor. The ‘Dores finished sixth at +34 for three rounds (+17 today!) which looks a little disappointing but gets them to [...]

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