Save the Shield! A Vanderbilt sports blog

Some discussion about Duke football came up on VandySports, and I made what I guess some would consider a brash comment about our relative fortunes this year. I have no idea what will transpire but I wanted to archive this as a record of a time that others have suggested I [...]

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The United States begins qualifying for the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa today, against Barbados at 2 pm Pacific (4 pm Central) in Carson, CA. ESPN2 will have the TV right after today’s Euro games. Here’s the complete layout for CONCACAF (i.e., North American) qualifying.   And a Barbados newspaper [...]

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With the college sports lull, I keep meaning to make a scope-defying post on the European soccer championships going on in Switzerland and Austria.   What finally prompted me to post was a great headline from L’Equipe:
LA FRANCE, PAYS BAS
(France, low country — which is literally what they call the Netherlands in French, “low country”)
Anyway, I’m [...]

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Of course it’s old news that Vanderbilt baseball lost two games out of three played in the NCAAs, both to a pretty mediocre Oklahoma team that for its part showed no sign of ever seriously challenging national seed Arizona State. I agree with those who’ve noted that the end of the game was sadly [...]

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