Save the Shield! A Vanderbilt sports blog

Thanks to NYDore for helping out in weeks when I can’t do the ballot. Again, check out his new blog, When [It] Strikes Me, for more than the three posts a season I feel like doing here. This week’s ballot is a joint effort.
Good grief, do we still have two weeks of [...]

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I can’t let the change of seasons go by without at least noting the excitement over the prospects in 2009-10 for men’s basketball. I think all our fans are really eager to see what this team can do.
I’ve seen very slight indications that people elsewhere in the SEC are starting to see [...]

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It’s a weird time for me to be thinking about football recruiting, but a thread on VandySports about Stanford got my brain working on this topic.
The national media often talks about college sports recruiting as though there’s a static pecking order of teams who just line up and draft their targets. In football, [...]

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Cross-posted from When [It] Strikes Me, NYDore’s blog.
1. Alabama

Try as we might, we can’t really get too worked up about the blown interception call because Alabama was the better team. Huzzah LSU, but you’re clearly third.

2. Florida
Chas Henry allowed a punt return (a 6 yarder) for the first time since the first play of [...]

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The commissioner of the SEC (the Southern Fat Cat one, not the Wall Street Fat Cat one) sent out an edict last week stating that it was no longer open season on officials. This year, we’ve seen more criticism of officiating than is the norm.
Your Mississippi States, Kentuckys and Vanderbilts have always been [...]

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