Save the Shield! A Vanderbilt sports blog

As with yesterday I’m going to try to keep this short.

Hard to imagine today’s game could have gone better, really. Clearly we’re head and shoulders better than Indiana, and although I wish Big Ten baseball in general and IU specifically all the best, clearly the “right” team by a wide margin went home [...]

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If you didn’t stumble here by accident, you probably know that Vanderbilt baseball lost as a 3-seed to 2-seed Middle Tennessee State today in the Louisville Regional, 5-4. If I wait around until I can collect everything I have to say about today’s game I’ll never make a post, so I’ll just [...]

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This blog certainly isn’t dead — at least, I have no intent of end-of-lifing it — but I’ve felt hobbled for the past few months. Sometimes I feel passionate enough about a topic like Vanderbilt sports to write about it, and other times I just don’t. When I don’t, I [...]

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Just saw a promo for E:360 announcing that they’ll have David Price as one of their three or four stories on Tuesday.   Definitely something worth checking out.

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Of course it’s old news that Vanderbilt baseball lost two games out of three played in the NCAAs, both to a pretty mediocre Oklahoma team that for its part showed no sign of ever seriously challenging national seed Arizona State. I agree with those who’ve noted that the end of the game was sadly [...]

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I’m tepidly following VU spring sports. Baseball had started to catch my imagination until yesterday, but now they’ve dropped two straight to a Kentucky team that frankly hasn’t been all that great in SEC play. It looks like the entire SEC East will make the conference and NCAA tournaments, and I [...]

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Given that basketball season is reaching its best part, I’m surprised that the start of the baseball season has so captured my imagination. Guess that’s what happens when you follow a preseason Top 10 team, right?
It was a nice win in Tempe. Mikey Minor was lights-out, of course, but what really got [...]

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I don’t have much analysis to add here, but I’ll see if I can find someone to write up a season preview. The next month or so is the greatest time of the year for Vanderblit athletics, with men’s and women’s hoops headed for the NCAAs and our consensus Top 10 baseball team [...]

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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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Before I post what I really have to say, I’ll note in passing the brouhaha over a preview by Chris Lee, VandySports.com founder, for the Alabama Rivals site. Apparently Chris wrote something to the effect that “many Alabama fans think Saban will win a national championship in his first year as head coach [...]

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