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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 […]

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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. […]

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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 […]

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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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New Head Coach Derek Mason Excites Vanderbilt Football Fans

By Poulumi Banerjee Poulumi is the News Director and Executive Website Director for Vandy Radio. She is also the Lead Anchor of her weekly VandyRadio show ‘Poulumi’s Picks’, which integrates current news topics with top 40 music. One of the biggest news stories of the month around campus has been the announcement that Vanderbilt football coach James Franklin, has decided to leave and become the new coach at Penn State. Campus saw a slew of controversial and negative reactions last week to […]

todayJanuary 22, 2014 10

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The Pros and Cons of “Tanking”

By Vivek Hansalia and Thomas Dowling In Defense of Tanking Tanking. For too long it has lurked in the shadows, a “what if?” scenario that beleaguered fans of crappy sports teams have thought about as they were hunched over the counter of their weekend haunts, cheap beer in hand, looking back up at the framed Bernie Kosar jersey hanging on the walls, remembering “Red Right 88” as the day everything changed... Wait, sorry, that’s just what Browns fans have done […]

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