Save the Shield! A Vanderbilt sports blog

…and neither one has anything to do with Starkville.  (Sucks that MSU started out looking so plucky, but Henig’s wayward passing has caught up with them.)
VU opponent Miami University pulled out a one-point conference win over Ball State. Â And speaking of the MAC, Kent State welcomed Gene Chizik to head coaching [...]

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I’ve got on the Miss State - LSU game — partially to celebrate the coming of the season, partially for work — and I noticed one of the PSA’s quoting William Faulkner.  “That’s odd that State would quote Faulkner,” thought I, “given that he’s so closely associated with Ole Miss.”   [...]

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Well, i was so shaken up by the United States’ U-20 team’s flameout in Toronto that i took a six week sabbatical from posting.  Or maybe it’s because nothing happens in the sports world in July and August except MLS and baseball. No, scratch that, it’s because i was busy hunting for [...]

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