Save the Shield! A Vanderbilt sports blog

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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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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