Save the Shield! A Vanderbilt sports blog

On our car trip to Mobile last weekend, the friend who was driving happened to have an interesting “book on CD” from the library that we listened to.� � I had seen Freakonomics on the shelves in some bookstore and thought it worthy of note, so i was happy to get to listen to [...]

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College sports are my bread and butter here, and it’s time for an obvious lull.  I should comment on the CWS, but it’s a bit too painful to think much about.  I’m glad to see that Rice is in the catbird seat in the tougher of the two brackets, and with [...]

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Into my void of summer sports i care about steps international soccer. It’s big summer for the US with both the North and South American championships at stake.   You may be wondering why we’re in the South American championship but take my word, playing against tougher competition is a Good Thing. [...]

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Vanderbilt baseball lost four games this season at Hawkins Field.  Two were this past weekend to Michigan.
David Price gave up three home runs this season. Â The second was to Tyler Farrer of Austin Peay on Friday; the third was the fateful Alan Oaks shot.
David Price finished with a record of 11-1; [...]

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I’m trying to impose a 24-hour moratorium on posting on VS both because it’s a bit emotional and because i’d rather document these thoughts coherently rather than post them scattershot.
First off, this was a tremendous season. Vanderbilt teams have so rarely won SEC championships in anything, and even with our program’s growth it [...]

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I’ve found this works better as a WordPress page: NCAA big picture
Bumping to say hi from Nashville and w00t SEC!

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I meant to write this post anyway, so it’s not just me giving up on VU’s postseason, not by a longshot.  But first, i gotta change the TV off the CSS infomercial where i left it!
OK, that’s better. Wonder if we’ll make SportsCenter?  So….

2006: Clemson goes 1-2 in CWS.
2005: Tulane [...]

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Boy howdy, that was quite a game, with a great ending to a great pitcher’s duel.  Henry’s mom asked, “So are y’all going to write a blog about this game?”  I can hardly disappoint, can I?
Contrary to what some exuberant fan says in the comments here, Kelley didn’t exactly outpitch [...]

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I’m about to leave. En route i’ll be thinking of how much i appreciate some positive pub from John Pruett of the local paper.  As if you wouldn’t guess from the photo, Pruett is sort of the stereotypical ol’ time Southern senior sports editor, so if VU can win him over we’re [...]

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