Save the Shield! A Vanderbilt sports blog

Thanks to a couple of folks who’ve pointed out that my feed in Google Reader says weird spammy things like names of medicines. (I’m not quoting them verbatim lest Google conclude I’m a spammer!)
I’ve replicated the problem for myself in Google Reader, but not outside of it in outher RSS reading tools. [...]

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(Also posted to VandySports.com, plus more Trib stuff I found after I posted there.)
Thread on official chicagobears.com forum - not too informative but really positive: “Looks like [Bennett] has one receiver spot locked up.”
David Haugh, Trib: Jay Cutler looks like a winner in home debut
The rapport between Bennett and Cutler, first established at Vanderbilt, was [...]

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This isn’t directly Vanderbilt-related, but I’d argue that stories of corruption in college sports are pretty important to the context in which Vanderbilt’s football and men’s basketball teams operate.
Now that I live in Memphis, it’s been sort of hard to miss all the sordid details coming out about the vacated 2008 Final Four previously claimed [...]

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Sometimes I’m too wordy. So I took a crack at summarizing my 2009 football prediction from the last post:

The team returns most of its talent and should perform a lot better on “fundamental” metrics, especially offensive yardage, which will improve our net yardage.
The way we won games last year, often getting outgained but [...]

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NOTE: As I was wrapping up this post on Sunday night, I surfed over to Vanderbilt Sports Line and saw their reference to the news broken by VandySports.com about the Terence Jeffers-Harris situation. Take that as a sign of how out-of-touch I’ve been about the daily news coming out of the program. [...]

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