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  Lipscomb's Kellie Sirus earns CoSIDA All-Academic honor

  Lipscomb sophomore Kellie Sirus was named to the CoSIDA All-Academic District IV Second Team. She is a nursing major with a 3.87 GPA. [Link]

  
  
  Lady Bisons remember the season and look forward to next year

  The Lady Bisons softball season ended quicker than they expected, but in the wake of a disappointing exit from the Atlantic Sun Tournament plans were being made for next season. [Link]

  
  
  Baseball hosts No. 8 Georgia starting Friday

  Vanderbilt hosts Georgia in a battle between the top two teams in the Southeastern Conference Eastern Division this weekend in the penultimate series of the regular season. The Commodores at 14-9 in league play trail the leading Bulldogs (17-6-1) by three games entering the weekend. The teams open up on Friday at 6 p.m., with a 2 p.m. start on ... [Link]

  
  
  Lady Bisons vs. Stetson Photo Gallery

  Photos from the Lady Bisons game against Stetson in the 2008 Atlantic Sun Tournament courtesy of Asunphotos.com [Link]

  
  
  Erat Posts Second Consecutive Multi-Point Game in Czech Win

  Martin Erat netted the game-winning goal as well as an assist, while all four Preds prospects picked up wins as the tournament moved into the Qualifying Round. Erat opened the scoring with a shorthanded goal at the 19:06 mark of the first perio... [Link]

  
  
  Bisons fall to Mercer 8-3 on Thursday

  The Bears offense was too much for the Bisons in game one of the conference series, as the Bisons were defeated 8-3 on Thursday, May 8. [Link]

  
  
  Hatters send Lady Bisons home for second year in a row

  The Lady Bisons second game in the A-Sun tournament proved to be a pitchers duel between the top two pitchers in the conference. Unfortunately, Stetson's Amanda Lindsey was able to outlast Lipscomb's Alaina Jacobson and send the Lady Bisons home for the second year in a row. [Link]

  
  
  Fox 17 Video: W-Tennis feature

  The Vanderbilt women's tennis team is getting ready to host the first and second rounds of the 2008 NCAA Tournament this Friday. The Commodores have been to the NCAA Sweet 16 each of the past ten seasons. And you have to like their chances this go around. Two big reasons - seniors Taka Bertrand and Amanda Taylor. Click the story ... [Link]

  
  
  Dolphins send Lady Bisons home for second year in a row

  The Lady Bisons second game in the A-Sun tournament proved to be a pitchers duel between the top two pitchers in the conference. Unfortunately, Stetson's Amanda Lindsey was able to outlast Lipscomb's Alaina Jacobson and send the Lady Bisons home for the second year in a row. [Link]

  
  
  WG in a tie for 12th after first roundof NCAA East Regional

  ATHENS - Junior Amber Lundskog shot a first-round 76 to lead the Commodores after the first round of competition at the NCAA East Regional in Athens, Ga. Vanderbilt fired a team score of 308, which has them in a tie for 12th place at the event, which is taking place at the University of Georgia Golf Course in Athens. The ... [Link]

  
  
  
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Adam “Pacman” Jones is no longer a Tennessee Titan, but the Dallas Cowboys’ recent acquisition is still a favorite of those who make it their business to parody and poke fun at him. Check here to see this cartoon about his arrival in Dallas. FYI, there are other Pacman funnies in the archives at this site which is dedicated to taking a lampooning look at the entire NFL.

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A heavyweight SEC baseball showdown is on tap in Nashville this weekend as Vanderbilt and Georgia meet for a three-game series at Hawkins Field.

The 18th-ranked Commodores are in second place in the SEC Eastern Division, three games behind the 11th-ranked Bulldogs. A weekend sweep would move VU, defending league champions, into first place and into position to defend its crown.

Should be an interesting weekend of baseball. Tickets are still available as of today. Call 322-GOLD or log on to VUCommodores.com.

Vanderbilt, by the way, finished 13-0 during the regular-season against Tennessee teams. The Commodores were 3-0 against Tennessee, 2-0 against MTSU, Belmont, Lipscomb and Austin Peay and 1-0 against Tennessee Tech and Memphis.

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Apparently Mindy McCready’s sordid affairs aren’t enough for our state. If you haven’t already seen this, here is video of a toddler apparently attempting to drink beer at a Chattanooga Lookouts game.

Okay, okay, it’s apparent that the bottle is empty. But I wouldn’t be surprised if they used this video with a slowed down version of Take Me Out to the Ballgame for a Public Service Announcement.

• Former Tennessee quarterback — and current North Carolina congressman — Heath Shuler is backing Hillary! And to think, he made this decision just one day after Hillary got decimated in a North Carolina primary. Heath’s sense of timing as a pro quarterback also left something to be desired.

But he’s serving the home folks well — his district heavily favored Clinton in the primary. I guess he learned what happens when you dis the fans. He went pro after his junior year at UT, then Vol fans promptly forgot him when Peyton Manning arrived.

• Austria, one of the countries hosting this summer’s European soccer championship tournament, is trying to convince soccer fans that the country is safe despite worldwide headlines about the terrifying case in Austria in which a man is accused of imprisoning his daughter and fathering seven children with her.

Of course, this may not be enough to calm down English fans, who might be attending despite England shamefully not qualifying for the tournament. After all, Austria has had to trot out the ‘we’re not all really like this’ line before.

• Headlines rarely get better than this.

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By now many of you have seen or heard the expletive-filled rant of Chicago White Sox manager Ozzie Guillen. And if you haven’t, it’s only a matter of time before it’s on Youtube.com. But after seeing Ozzie’s diatribe, I have to admit it looks a little contrived to me. It was before a game, not in the emotional aftermath of an excruciating loss. Ozzie doesn’t even make the top five manager/coach rants of all time, but at least he had the sensibility to invoke the name of the man who holds the No. 1 rant position of all time — former Cubs manager Lee Elia. Elia’s venom challenging Cub fans’ loyalty and their lack of employment is classic like no other. Only a few even come close.

But here are my top five:

5) Randy Moss conference call to Titans beat writers, 2001. This one is special because I was actually present to hear it. It started with Moss saying hello by yelling, “Yo, what up, Tennessee.” The topper, other than Moss reiterating that he only played when he wanted to and that he would physically threaten Vikings fans who got on him, was when one could hear a toilet being flushed toward the end of the interview. A true highlight of my sportswriting career.

4) Jim Mora’s playoffs rant. How many times have we heard this one over the past few years as Mora melts down after a Colts loss after one reporter dares to ask him about Indy’s all but snuffed out hopes for the playoffs. Playoffs? Playoffs?

3) Tommy Lasorda on ordering his pitchers to throw at hitters. Lasorda’s blow-up after Dave Kingman’s three-homer day is his most legendary tirade, but it’s hard to argue with his response to Kurt Bevacqua’s accusations that Lasorda had pitchers intentionally throw at him. In response, Lasorda said he wouldn’t order a pitcher to throw at Bevacqua “who couldn’t hit water if he fell out of a [expletive] boat.”

2) Tommy in a repeat performance is caught on tape in an argument with pitcher Doug Rau, who is being removed earlier than he wanted from a 1977 World Series game. “I’m the manager. I’ll make the decisions,” Lasorda says in one of the few printable spots from the tirade.

1)Elia. If you’ve ever heard this one, you know why it’s No. 1. As funny as the others are, nothing really touches this one in terms of it being THE classic meltdown of all-time.

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Apparently, Roger Clemens is sorry. What he’s sorry for, well, we don’t know. But it has nothing to do with steroids, he assures us.

Come on, man. Now this is an apology.

• Emmitt Smith sure sets the bar high on personal conduct for Cowbooys. The best quote: “As long as you’re not killing anybody, getting anybody shot at and going to jail, then I don’t have any issues.”

Uh, Emmitt, there’s quite a bit of leeway there. Nice to know America’s Team has such high standards. As for Tony Romo, here’s what he better stay away from.

• Okay, we should all know by now that Cinco de Mayo is not actually a big-time holiday in Mexico. It’s an excuse for beer and corn chip makers in the U.S. to boost their sales in May. The actual Mexican independence day is Sept. 16.

But since May 5 is celebrated as a day to honor Mexican heritage, Here’s a list of Hugo Sanchez’s top 10 goals ever. Sanchez is Mexico’s greatest ever soccer player. The last three goals on this list are pretty friggin’ amazing.

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After Friday’s visit with the Tennessee Titans rookies, I’m eager to see the veterans this Friday at Baptist Sports Park. Specifically I’m eager to see what Jevon Kearse has left to offer after several years away. Ditto for Justin McCareins.

I’m also looking forward to seeing Alge Crumpler and how the Titans plan to use him in the passing game.

But perhaps the thing that will be most interesting to watch is how new/old offensive coordinator Mike Heimerdinger makes use of the talent on hand, especially at wide receiver.

Which of the wide receivers on the roster will step forward as Justin Gage did last year? Roydell Williams is still recovering from an ankle injury. Will he be as effective? Brandon Jones, Biren Ealy, Paul Williams, Mike Williams and Chris Davis will all have to earn their keep in training camp or risk being let go as there isn’t room for all of them.

In Heimerdinger’s first go-around several darkhorse candidates emerged as a quality players because they listened and soaked in Heimerdinger’s gruff but precise instructions. Drew Bennett who came from nowhere to be a starter. Bennett, Derrick Mason and McCareins all blossomed under Heimerdinger, who is still a receivers coach at heart.

The farther back in the rearview mirror it gets, the more I’m convinced Norm Chow was in over his head as an NFL play-caller and offensive coordinator. What worked against Oregon State and Stanford didn’t fool the Colts and Jaguars very often.

Who will step forward? We get our first real look on Friday.

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OregonLive.com has a story and some video on new Vanderbilt basketball recruit Brad Tinsley, a guard from Oregon City, Ore., who signed with the Commodores on Friday.

Take a look.

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I hope you all were responsible boaters this weekend.

This weekend almost seemed like it should have been called the ‘We’re not gonna take it anymore’ weekend. Consider:

• Tennessee kicked two of its best returning basketball players — Duke Crews and Ramar Smith — off the team for unnamed violations.

• LSU kicked quarterback Ryan Perrilloux off its football team.

• And the Titans seem so fed up and over the whole Pacman era that they don’t want anybody to even wear his jersey number.

It seems like we’re at the start of a “no tolerance” era in sports now. There are a lot of cultural, racial and socio-economic variables here — none of which I’m qualified to talk about. But solely for the sake of the actual action between the lines, a little “no tolerance” might be a good thing.

• I had the good fortune of getting to speak with Bobby Lance a few times last fall. Lance, a former athlete at MBA and quarterback at the University of Florida, passed away last Tuesday.

Lance was certainly a colorful figure. When I spoke with him, he was telling me about getting inducted into Kingsport Dobyns-Bennett’s football Hall of Fame. He told me he only played one year at D-B, but that he was a native Nashvillian. I asked him why he was only at D-B for one season and asked him if his family moved for some reason.

He hesitated for only a moment and then said, “Well, no, they kicked me out of MBA.”

Apparently there were no hard feelings. His son Fletcher was a four-year tennis letterman at MBA.

In our few conversations, we talked about old-time football. He told me former UT star and Pro Football Hall of Famer Doug Atkins might have been the best player he ever saw. He told me that while he later got to know NFL star Paul Hornung, he still believed Tennessee’s Johnny Majors had been robbed of the 1956 Heisman Trophy (Hornung won the award, much to Vols fans’ dismay, even to this day).

I enjoyed the time and the conversations I had with him. He will be missed.

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Want some perspective on how well the Vanderbilt baseball program continues to recruit? Check out these rankings of the nation’s top 100 players, released Wednesday by Rivals.com.

It’s the first such list from Rivals.com, and five Commodores signees are included. Whether all of them actually show up on campus this fall is another matter, as some will be drafted this summer and will have difficult choices to make.

The most talented player in the crop could be Smyrna pitcher Sonny Gray, whose fastball has topped out at more than 95 miles per hour. It will be a coup for Vanderbilt coach Tim Corbin if he can convince Gray to turn down the pros this summer and enroll in school in August.

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Well, the BCS decided against a four-team playoff (boo!) and against the idiotic plus-one format (yea!).

Look, we’ve all avoided it. And there’s been plenty of talk about having a playoff “within the context of the bowl system.” But it’s simple, really: The champions of each I-A conference. Six at-large teams. 16 teams. They start playing in December. It’s not rocket science.

• According to Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, the rules for international basketball are apparently going to change to be more like the NBA.

I guess I’m the only one that actually likes the international game and the trapezoid lane. It’s you know, actually like basketball instead of football on a court.

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