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Reminder that Stallings is a much wiser coach than he was nine years ago

January 24th, 2009 · No Comments

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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Tags: Stallings · bowling · tennis

Big Vanderbilt sports day - and WordPress is screwing up and won’t save the post!

April 12th, 2008 · No Comments

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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Tags: bowling · golf

Multisport update

March 29th, 2008 · No Comments

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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Tags: Women's basketball · bowling · nonrev · tennis

The return of content? Naahh… not yet

December 2nd, 2007 · 1 Comment

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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Tags: Vandy baseball · Vandy football · Women's basketball · bowling · men's basketball

Liveblog: Vanderbilt - Md.-Eastern Shore, NCAA women’s bowling final

April 14th, 2007 · 7 Comments

You asked for it. Well, if this blog had a readership, and if you were a part, and if you cared about women’s college bowling or just seeing VU win a championship, then you would have asked for it. So against my better judgment, i will try to liveblog the final.
However, [...]

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Tags: Vandy · bowling

More cutting edge college bowling analysis

April 14th, 2007 · No Comments

So i’m trying to synthesize this chart with these results — the latter actually make sense to me, sorta, as a double-elim best-of-seven tournament that becomes single elim when two teams make the final undefeated — but so far that other chart has me baffled. Maybe if i understood how the qualifying rounds [...]

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Tags: Vandy · bowling