Save the Shield! A Vanderbilt sports blog

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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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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Before I mentally move on to VU baseball season, and while this it’s still marginally in-season, I have a few suggestions on how the NCAA’s crowning event and its feminine counterpart could be improved. Mind you, I still think the men’s tournament is the best event of most sports years, second only to the [...]

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