Save the Shield! A Vanderbilt sports blog

Looks like selections are May 1.  The VU women are ranked #15, so they should at least get to the Sweet Sixteen.  Looks like the championship is in Athens, which i think means the Sweet Sixteen.  Road trip?  Hmm…

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Last night i went to watch the US under-21 women’s team defeat Trinidad & Tobago’s senior team 2-0 at Alabama A&M’s Crews Stadium as part of the 2007 Futbol Internacional tournament at six Alabama sites.  Suffice it to say i didn’t go because i was worried whether the WNT has a good supply [...]

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Caller to Finebaum’s show derides Slimy for picking Bama to finish 7-5.  In this fellow’s book that’s an absolute worst-case scenario because it has them losing their five “big games.”  Implicit is the assumption that of course, of course, Ole Miss, Miss State and Vanderbilt are going to happily show up [...]

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First a housekeeping note: I’ve had it reported that posting a comment brings up a blank screen, and i also get this at times when i post or edit a post. I’ll try upgrading to the latest WP 2.0 and see if it’s a fixed issue, but if not then i may have to improvise [...]

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Price was brilliant and baseball won their opening game vs. UTK. We’re moving more and more toward the paragon of a team without pitching depth. We’re a team that can compete and amass a good conference record as long as the top two guys are going and we support them just [...]

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No sooner had i taken my last rambling post live than i found this clip to make me homesick for Boston. Ah yes, where men are men and pizza is a projectile.
Isn’t it great that we have a sport where nothing happens so we can analyze the pizza wars in such detail? [...]

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Before I launch into such a flighty post, it goes without saying that all my prayers, condolences, ad best wishes are with all those affected by the VT massacre.
I try to look for VU-related posts from time to time in Technorati and Google, but somehow i missed this beauty from 2006 from a Georgia Tech [...]

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Overall i found the Robinson commemorations very tasteful and fitting. Someone on ESPN Radio really summarized my feelings yesterday: Often we give too much attention to “firsts”, to people who by historical accident end up in a position where they’re a bellwether of broader societal changes. Obviously had Robinson not played [...]

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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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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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