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Wednesday Game Thread vs. Eastern Michigan
The Diamond Dores run-ruled the EMUs 13-2 last night in 7 innings, powered by two Brode Bombs, one Hulk Smash, and a Goodin… umm… Plenty… to bring the Dores to 2-2 on the year. Johnston, in particular, stood out, as the game ending CF shot still hasn’t landed, and after going 3-5 with 2 HR […]
Tuesday Game Thread vs. Eastern Michigan
As we bid adieu to the Shriners and a pretty rough 1-2 opening weekend record, we return home to Nashville for a two game mid-week set against the touring cast of Escanaba in da Moonlight The Eastern Michigan Fightin’ Insurance Emus Eagles. If we lose either of today or tomorrow’s games, Lucy’s going to have […]
WBB Game 27: Vanderbilt at Georgia
24-2 (10-2) AP/Coaches: 5/5 Creme: 1-seed NET: 7 February 15, 2026 11:00AM CT at Stegeman Coliseum SEC Network | Radio Call | Live Stats 19-6 (5-6) AP/Coaches: ORV/ORV Creme: 7-seed NET:35
Shriner’s Children’s College Showdown Game 3 vs. Oklahoma State: Game Thread
After dropping a heartbreaker due to a throwing error against TCU, The Diamond Dores exploded for an 8th run 4th en route to run-ruling Texas Tech 13-3 in the 8th. Today, we face the rubber match against The Okie Pokes. Three Stars from Saturday’s Win #1. Brodie “The Brode Man” Johnston (3-5 with 2 HR, […]
Game 25: Texas A&M Aggies at Vanderbilt Commodores
I suppose some of you are watching baseball lol no none of you possibly paid for FloSports. Anyway, Vanderbilt, now 20-4 on the season, hosts Texas A&M at noon CT on the SEC Network. Texas A&M was in first place in the SEC a couple of weeks ago. A three-game losing streak has them tied […]
Shriner’s Children’s College Showdown Game 2 vs. Texas Tech: Game Thread
Despite damn near 1500 feet of dongers by Colin Barczi, the Diamond Dores dropped game 1 against TCU 5-4 and will need to beat Texas Tech to set up a rubber match against the Okie Pokes tomorrow. While the offense made a lot of hard contact, all 4 runs came via solo shots… which points […]
AI will never replace us
So let’s veer off topic for a minute, because this week suddenly the artificial intelligence companies need a new round of funding and now we’re subjected to a bunch of pants-shitting takes (or gleeful, depending on your point of view) that AI is going to put us all out of a job within the next […]
Shriner’s Children’s College Showdown Game 1 vs. TCU: Game Thread
3pm FloSports. The 2026 Diamond Dores Season begins… now. See my Season Preview for more on this team. On the Mound Friday @ 3:00pm FloSports #39 Vanderbilt Jr. RHP Connor “The Spice” Fennell (6-0; 2.53 ERA*) vs. #49 TCU Jr. RHP Tommy “The Pour” LaPour (8-3; 3.09 ERA*) *Record and ERA from 2025. The Lineup […]
2026 Vanderbilt Baseball Season Preview
Though there are still land-based ice bergs everywhere I look, it is somehow baseball season this Friday. The Diamond Dores, as seemingly happens every year, open with a three game mini-tournament of sorts in Arlington, Tejas called “The Shriner’s Children’s College Showdown.” I’d say be on the lookout for fez-clad Boomers driving mini cars and/or […]
WBB Game 26: Texas at Vanderbilt
23-2 (8-2) AP/Coaches: 4/4 Creme: 1-seed NET: 4 February 12, 2026 6:30PM CT at Memorial Gymnasium SECN+ | Radio Call | Live Stats 23-2 (9-2) AP/Coaches: 5/5 Creme: 2-seed NET: 7 Wow-ee, another big conference game come and gone and we end up on the winning side once again. This one wasn’t even particularly close. […]
Game 24: Vanderbilt at Auburn
Vanderbilt is trying to shake off a 1-point loss at home to the worst team in the SEC, Oklahoma. Granted, getting it to one included Vanderbilt stageing a 19-point comeback in the last 3:24 of the game. Tonight, the Dores are at Auburn, who blew a game against Alabama and their now-ineligible Center Charles Bediako. […]
WBB Game 25: Oklahoma at Vanderbilt
17-5 (5-4) AP/Coaches: 11/11 Creme: 4-seed NET: 12 February 9, 2026 8:00PM CT at Memorial Gymnasium ESPN2 | Radio Call | Live Stats 22-2 (8-2) AP/Coaches: 7/8 Creme: 2-seed NET: 8 Alright. Back to our normally scheduled programming. Vanderbilt has only dropped 2 ranked games, back-to-back, against South Carolina and Ole Miss, but we rebounded […]
Game 23: Oklahoma Sooners at Vanderbilt Commodores
After a week off, Vanderbilt is back in action today at 2:30 PM as Oklahoma comes to town. The SEC office incorrectly considers this an SEC conference game when it is obviously part of the SEC/Big 12 Challenge.
Game 24: Vanderbilt vs Kentucky
Sorry it has been inconsistent so far. Better late than never I think?
Game 22: Ole Miss Rebels at Vanderbilt Commodores
Well, Vanderbilt was supposed to be on the road this weekend, but thanks to the lingering effects of last weekend’s ice storm in Mississippi, Vanderbilt will play Ole Miss at home tonight at 5 PM CT on the SEC Network. As a result, the Commodores swapped a home game with Ole Miss in the last […]
WBB Game 22: Vanderbilt vs. Ole Miss
Relocated to Birmingham due to weather, which means we are going to get a chance at top-20 Ole Miss on a neutral court. My site of choice for the women’s side seems to give about 6 points for home court and is currently giving the Brown Rebsharkqirrels a 3-point win over us before adjusting for […]
Vanderbilt Basketball Mailbag: Call for Submissions
Post VANDERBILT Basktball (Men’s and Women’s) questions in the comments here. I didn’t want to jinx anything while either the men’s or women’s teams were undefeated, but now that both have had their share of ups and downs, let’s open up the ol’ bag. Beyond that, I petitioned an Alabama judge to let our G […]
Vanderbilt whips Kentucky 80-55, improves to 18-3
The weeklong freakout about Vanderbilt’s three-game losing streak after starting the season 16-0 is officially over. After blowing out Mississippi State in Starkville over the weekend, the Vanderbilt Commodores came back to Memorial Gym and amidst Snowpocalypse easily handled Kentucky. This was a beatdown from start to finish, as the Commodores opened up a 7-0 […]
Game 21: Kentucky Wildcats at Vanderbilt Commodores
It sounds like this one will go on as scheduled. Vanderbilt, 17-3 on the season, snapped a three-game losing streak at Mississippi State on Saturday and is back at Memorial Gym to host Kentucky. Kentucky enters tonight on a five-game winning streak but has only gone up from 30 to 28 in KenPom during that […]
The blowback to the current state of affairs isn’t coming from courts, or Congress
Since we’re all snowed in today, and Vanderbilt doesn’t have a basketball game until tomorrow night — if that even happens, what with all of us still buried in snow and ice — I wanted to take stock of three separate and yet extremely related developments in college sports over the last week and change […]
WBB Game 21: Vanderbilt at South Carolina
We win? We’re the best team in the country. We lose?? We’re still one of the 5 best teams in the country. I am just excited to see what we do.
The Statistical: Vanderbilt 88, Mississippi State 56
This was a straight domination of the type we saw quite a bit in the nonconference portion of the schedule, but that hadn’t been seen for weeks. Interestingly, Vanderbilt only won two of the four factors: Mississippi State got to the foul line more often and grabbed more of their own misses, but Mississippi State […]
Vanderbilt gets right with 88-56 crushing of Mississippi State
The 11 AM tipoff and the threat of winter weather did nothing to restrain Vanderbilt in Saturday’s visit to Starkville, Mississippi, as the Commodores snapped a three-game losing streak by beating Mississippi State 88-56. This was never in doubt. AK Okereke opened the scoring with a bucket in the first minute and Vanderbilt never trailed, […]
Game 20: Vanderbilt Commodores at Mississippi State Bulldogs
Three-game losing streaks are not good. Three-game losing streaks that involve an embarrassing blowout loss at Arkansas are really not good. Vanderbilt has an early tip-off today at Mississippi State at 11 AM CT, moved up due to weather. Hopefully, uh, this goes better than the last three games. Thanks to the entire schedule getting […]
WBB Game 20: Auburn at Vanderbilt
The eye of the hurricane. We are coming off a top-10 win and are staring down the barrel of another, that one AT South Carolina. For now, we welcome Auburn to Nashville for what could be a trap game… but more likely the win that puts us at 20-and-zero.
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