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The Supergroup

A few days ago, the great classic rock band Queen announced a North American tour set for this summer. However, die hard Queen fans had mixed feelings when Queen also announced that former American Idol contestant Adam Lambert would be joining them on vocals to replace the legendary Freddie Mercury, who passed away in 1991. This got me thinking, why do old bands still tour? More times than not, they 1) have a member who has passed away, like Queen […]

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The Beauty of Match Play

Golf features two prominent tournament formats: stroke play and match play.  Stroke play is generally highlighted throughout the season, as it is the format for all 4 majors and for the majority of the other tournaments.  However, the Ryder Cup and the President’s Cup, biennial tournaments that feature the United States vs. Europe and the United States vs. the rest of world excluding Europe, respectively, are conducted in match play format.  This week’s featured tournament was the WGC Accenture Match-Play […]

todayFebruary 28, 2014 55

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The Best & Worst Music Collaborations

One of my favorite things about music is when two seemingly different artists combine to make one killer song. And I’m not talking Eminem and Rihanna here. I’m talking about the crazy, the wacky, the original. Without further ado, I present to you my list of the best and worst music collaborations (Click the songs for the hyperlinks). Best Coldplay ft. Rihanna, Princess of China: Let’s start it off with something basic here. When I first heard that Coldplay had […]

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30 shades of Green

$1.7 billion, $2.5 billion, $3.2  billion, $6 billion; these are the TV deal sizes of the Angels, the Phillies, the Astros, and the Dodgers. This is all additional income that is tacked on to the money that is allocated to each team by the MLB. In some cases, teams are getting north of 75 million dollars per year. Notably, the highlights among these absurd figures center on the two biggest markets in the USA; the Dodgers have a flat $280 […]

todayFebruary 20, 2014 44

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Exclusive Tyler Beede interview Tonight!

The hosts from the Sports ReVU will be interviewing Vandy Baseball ace Tyler Beede tonight at 8 pm.  Beede was a first-round draft pick for the Major Leagues in 2011, but turned down the Toronto Blue Jays in favor of studying (and playing) at Vanderbilt.   Check out his official bio here. Remember to tune in here on vandyradio.com tonight at 8 pm as Vivek, Thomas, and Dan talk with Beede about how the Commodores are beginning the 2014 season. […]

todayFebruary 20, 2014 10

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“Just a Beautiful Liar”: Not Your ‘Modern Harem’

In a recent InsideVandy op-ed, Danny Lee outlined the problems that the recently uploaded music video of Shakira and Rhianna ("Can't Remember to Forget You" pose-- that their portrayal of causal lesbian action because they'd "do anything for the boy" plays into a certain type of male-dominated-lesbian-homoeroticism. I'd like to draw attention to another Shakira collaboration: "Beautiful Liar" with Beyonce from 2009. Once again, we have two beautiful dancer-songstresses singing about-- you guessed it-- loving the same man. Instead of […]

todayFebruary 20, 2014 3

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John Mayer- A Once in a Generation Talent

Jennifer Aniston. White supremacy. Taylor Swift. Heroin. These are all things that may come to mind upon hearing the name John Mayer (if you are unfamiliar with any of these, google them). To the casual observer, Mayer is a guy who has put together a pretty successful pop career while providing the tabloids with plenty of material. However, in my first ever VandyRadio blog post (woot woot!), I would like to argue that John Mayer is in fact one of […]

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