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Anchor Drop, May 29: 93 Days to Kickoff

1 week ago | anchorofgold.com | Tom Stephenson

Christopher Hanewinckel-Imagn Images Good morning. We are now 93 days away from Vanderbilt football’s season opener against Charleston Southern. 93 for the Commodores is defensive lineman Nikhil Jefferson. The 6’1”, 325-pound freshman from Tampa, Florida, was a three-star recruit who enrolled at Vanderbilt in time for spring practice.
Anchor Drop, May 28: 94 Days to Kickoff

1 week ago | anchorofgold.com | Tom Stephenson

Steve Roberts-Imagn Images Good morning. We are now 94 days away from Vanderbilt football’s season opener against Charleston Southern. 94 for the Commodores is defensive lineman Bradley Mann. The 6’6”, 288-pound redshirt junior from Jacksonville has played parts of the last three seasons, but had his season end early in 2022 and 2024 due to injuries. Before his 2024 season ended, he played in nine games and registered nine total tackles.
Anchor Drop, May 27: 95 Days to Kickoff

1 week ago | anchorofgold.com | Tom Stephenson

Denny Simmons / The Tennessean / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images Good morning. We are now 95 days away from Vanderbilt football’s season opener against Charleston Southern. 95 for the Commodores is defensive lineman Linus Zunk. The 6’6”, 263-pound redshirt junior from Berlin, Germany, played in all 13 games and made one start last season, finishing the year with 16 tackles and 1.5 sacks.
Vanderbilt baseball gets #1 overall seed, Louisville in its regional, again

1 week ago | anchorofgold.com | Tom Stephenson

Jake Crandall/ Montgomery Advertiser / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images A couple of months after a portion of the Vanderbilt fanbase suggested that the game had passed Tim Corbin by and he needed to retire... Vanderbilt is the #1 overall seed in the NCAA Tournament.
Anchor Drop, May 26: 96 Days to Kickoff

1 week ago | anchorofgold.com | Tom Stephenson

Steve Roberts-Imagn Images Good morning. We are now 96 days away from Vanderbilt football’s season opener against Charleston Southern. 96 for the Commodores is defensive lineman Khordae Sydnor. The 6’4”, 266-pound fifth-year senior from Harlem made his Vanderbilt debut last season after transferring from Purdue, and had 6.5 tackles for loss and four sacks on the season.
Anchor Drop, May 25: 97 Days to Kickoff

2 weeks ago | anchorofgold.com | Tom Stephenson

Petre Thomas-USA TODAY Sports Good morning. We are now 97 days away from Vanderbilt football’s season opener against Charleston Southern. 97 on the current roster is defensive lineman Hayden Bray.
Anchor Drop, May 24: 98 Days to Kickoff

2 weeks ago | anchorofgold.com | Tom Stephenson

Steve Roberts-Imagn Images Good morning. (‘90S TEENAGE GIRL SCREAM)Today, we’re 98 days from Vanderbilt football’s season opener against Charleston Southern. 98 for Vanderbilt... well, that was De’Marion Thomas, who transferred to Oklahoma State after spring practice. Sigh... Vanderbilt is playing brunch baseball in the semifinals of the SEC Tournament, with today’s game against Tennessee being moved up to 10 AM CT because of the threat of inclement weather in Hooverville this afternoon.
Anchor Drop, May 23: 99 Days to Kickoff

2 weeks ago | anchorofgold.com | Tom Stephenson

Steve Roberts-Imagn Images Good morning. In the annual tradition, we begin our annual countdown to Vanderbilt’s first football game of the season when 99 days remain until kickoff — and for the first couple months or so before the new roster is released, there’s a whole lot of “oh crap, nobody’s wearing this number right now. That’s true of 99 — worn by defensive lineman Devin Lee last year, who took a four-game redshirt as a senior and then transferred to South Florida after the season.
Anchor Drop, May 21: Buehler’s Day Off

2 weeks ago | anchorofgold.com | Tom Stephenson

Photo by Maddie Malhotra/Boston Red Sox/Getty Images Good morning. Walker Buehler came off the DL (shut up, it’ll always be the disabled list) last night, lasted three innings, and then... Walker F'n Buehler living up to his Nickname. (The pitch should definitely have been a strike)WFB was Ejected. pic.twitter.com/lluhVmzClp— Rob Friedman (@PitchingNinja) May 20, 2025Yeah, in fairness, it was a strike. Buehler also didn’t allow a run in 2.1 innings, so there’s that.
Anchor Drop: Tennessee doesn’t like the House settlement, because of course not

2 weeks ago | anchorofgold.com | Tom Stephenson

Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images Good morning. So, Ross Dellenger reported yesterday that in the wake of a new Tennessee state law (of course it was Tennessee, why wouldn’t it be), the power conferences are working on a way to bind the schools to new enforcement rules. Huh. Weird. It’s like we’ve come all the way full circle to why there was the NCAA in the first place. Almost like somebody needs to enforce rules in a neutral manner.