Christopher Walsh
Writer, Author, Husband, Father, Hockey Freak
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6 days ago |
si.com | Christopher Walsh
As an academic institution, Vanderbilt University is among the nation’s leading four-year universities, and is particularly known for its engineering, law, business, and education schools (among others) along with the Freedom Forum First Amendment Center. The private research university was founded in 1873 and grew into what some consider the South’s equivalent to an Ivy League college.
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1 week ago |
si.com | Christopher Walsh
Nick Saban would probably never admit it publicly, but he was tiptoeing through a perception minefield last week — something he's been very good at over the years. This was a little different, though. When President Donald Trump invited himself to speak at the University of Alabama commencement, and school officials had to scramble to set up a special ceremony to accommodate him (it hasn't had a commencement speaker for years), Saban was tapped to make the introduction.
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1 week ago |
si.com | Christopher Walsh
Even though the Southeastern Conference didn’t become reality until 1933, its roots go back into the late 1800s, when football was barley a blip on the athletic radar screen, especially in the South. With the game just having been introduced on most the campuses which would eventually form the alliance, most Southern schools were small and baseball was usually the sport of choice.
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2 weeks ago |
si.com | Christopher Walsh
We're down to the final four weeks of the SEC baseball regular season and predictably there's a logjam at the top of league standings and national rankings. Texas is No. 1 in the polls, and eight teams are on pace to possibly host regionals depending on which rankings you're using. That was normal for this conference before the league added the Longhorns and Oklahoma this year, so no one should be surprised to be see half of the SEC in any top 25 ranking.
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2 weeks ago |
si.com | Christopher Walsh
In late July of every year, the Southeastern Conference officially kicks off the upcoming football season with a journalistic smorgasbord called Media Days at the Wynfrey Hotel, just outside of Birmingham, Alabama. Since 1985, reporters have descended on the posh locale and helped turn it into something resembling a toy store the day after Thanksgiving.
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