Dec. 3, 2010
On Deck: The 2011 baseball schedule was officially release yesterday afternoon. For more on the schedule, go here.
AROUND THE WEB FRIDAY
Men’s Basketball: Stallings, Byrd temporarily set aside friendship (Jerome Boettcher, The City Paper)
Men’s Basketball: Vandy pleased with more confident Goulbourne (Jeff Lockridge, The Tennessean)
Women’s Basketball: Tuomi returning home for Denver game (Jerome Boettcher, The City Paper)
Lacrosse: Vandy is just dandy for Wilton’s Kratz (John Nash, Wilton Villager)
IN THE PROS
NFL: Commodores in the NFL, Week 12 (Larry Leathers)
MLB: Indians sign Jensen Lewis to 1-year contract (Paul Hoynes, The Plain Dealer)
MLB: Lewis avoids arbitration with Tribe (Jordan Bastian, MLB.com)
VUCOMMODORES.COM NEWS
Quick Slant: Changing the culture (Rod Williamson)
Football: Corey Chavous: VU’s 2010 SEC Legend (Larry Leathers)
Football: Faceoff Final: Welchans vs. Lohr (Ryan Schulz)
Women’s Basketball: SEC single game tickets on sale Dec. 10 (Ryan Schulz)
Baseball: 2011 schedule announced (Kyle Parkinson)
Soccer: Kinsella named third-team All-Region (Chris Weinman)
Swimming: VU travels to Miami (Donny Turnbaugh)
QUOTES OF THE DAY
Men’s basketball coach Kevin Stallings on playing local teams:
Source: The City Paper
“We realize being in the league that we are in that a lot of what happens from a college basketball landscape around here evolves around us. It is probably our responsibility at times to play these games.”
Women’s basketball coach Melanie Balcomb on Hannah Tuomi getting to play in front of her hometown of Denver Sunday:
Source: The City Paper
“When her parents can see a home game like that it makes me feel good. They said they are going to bring a big crowd so hopefully we’ll see a lot of them.”
Baseball coach Tim Corbin on the Commodores’ 2011 schedule:
Source: VUcommodores.com
“I like our schedule a lot. We are playing very good teams throughout the country before we get into the SEC portion of our season. This will be a nice challenge for the kids.”
RANDOM VIDEOS OF THE DAY
The Commodore women’s basketball team will be in Denver Sunday, so let’s go with two videos of Nuggets great Dikembe Mutombo.
SONG OF THE DAY
Frank Sinatra – Luck be a lady
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