The parents of Aimee Copeland, the victim of a flesh-eating bacteria, stay hopeful as their daughter is in the hospital.
We begin our weekly mailbag with an East Coast native who pledges fealty to a West Coast team.
Some private colleges are paying their top executives millions of dollars, at the same time they're hiking tuition prices for students.
On Tuesday night, it will be time to meet the candidates.
Five things to watch for as the MLB Draft gets underway Monday night in Secaucus, N.J.:
They learned as children that the world is a scary place where strangers with hatred in their hearts steer planes into buildings, grown-ups cry for days and everything can change in an instant.
As news develops around the death of Osama bin Laden, there are a variety of different reactions.
On Thanksgiving, many of us will eat way more than normal and then waddle away contented, with a turkey and sweet potato buzz.
Almost every weekend, there is a tradition called raging at Vanderbilt University.
I don't mean to brag (well, yes I do), but I have a pretty good track record when it comes to picking NCAA tournament upsets. And thanks to the wonders of cyberspace, I have documented proof.
A Vanderbilt study looks at a new, but unproved, occupational therapy that helps some autistic children learn to speak.
At school, Rajaan Bennett was the senior with the shiny future -- the honors student and star running back who led his Georgia high school team to its first undefeated season.
Have I told you lately that I love you?
A federal advisory committee issued sweeping guidelines Wednesday for a vaccination campaign against the pandemic swine flu strain, identifying more than half the U.S. population as targets for the first round of vaccinations.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- The Vanderbilt Commodores are about to go down under for some preseason bonding and extra play time.
Word that President Obama might pile comprehensive immigration reform onto his already-full plate reignited calls from some for an urgent overhaul and brought cries from others that the timing couldn't be worse.
"Metabolism" is the name of the bodily system that converts food calories to energy needed to perform various tasks, like pumping oxygen to muscles during a long walk. Many variables contribute to your metabolism, including heredity, gender and age. But you can quicken yours; here's how.
Underrated: South Dakota State The Summit League champions have lost just two games this season, and one of them was to one-seed Maryland (the Jackrabbits led at the half before losing 68-56.) Otherwise the balanced, disciplined and versatile Jackrabbits have beaten everyone they've faced, including Missouri, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Gonzaga. With guards who can post up and posts who can hit the three -- six players have hit 20 or more threes this year, and as a team the Jacks make 8.2 threes a game -- the Jacks present a lot of matchup problems. "We're not a bunch of little engines that could that somehow had this miraculous season," said coach Aaron Johnston. "We have a bunch of really good players who play exceptionally well together."
How do you keep employees happy, even in troubled times? The companies on this year's list of the 100 Best Companies To Work For showed us that culture continues to be the most important aspect of what makes a company great. Our new No. 1, NetApp, the San Francisco-based data storage and management company that has been on the list for the past six years, continues to grow revenues while boosting employee morale -- enough to topple Google (No. 4), which held the crown for the past two years.
It seems every other day brings news of waves of selling by nervous investors. But for every seller, there has to be a buyer. So who's buying stocks when so many people are selling?
The Dow rallied as much as 906 points during Tuesday's session, as investors dove back into stocks.
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- David Price was nervous, and with good reason. In Game 2 of the World Series on Thursday night the Rays' 23-year-old star of the future became the man of the moment when he took the mound to face Phillies star Chase Utley with two outs in the seventh inning, a runner on second and the Rays leading 4-0 but trailing in the Series 1-0. Price threw Utley four fastballs, each about 94 or 95 miles per hour, and none of them over the plate.
Diabetics who tightly control their blood sugar -- even if only for
the first decade after they are diagnosed -- have lower risks of heart
attack, death and other complications 10 or more years later
Antibodies are a tricky thing. Some confer protection for years, some a lifetime. To help explain, Eric Altschuler discusses new findings about the 1918 pandemic flu virus
NEW YORK -- There are times when the Alvarez family wishes they'd taken the money. Just cashed the $775,000 signing bonus the Boston Red Sox offered their then 18-year-old son, Pedro, when he was drafted in the 14th round three years ago, and then maybe his father wouldn't still be sliding behind the wheel of his rented black Lincoln Town Car every morning at 5 a.m. to begin his 12-hour shift in one of the city's most dangerous professions -- giving rides to strangers in his livery cab. Nor would Pedro, a junior third baseman at Vanderbilt, be taking his third of three exams in a single day. But those moments of regret are few and fleeting because for the Alvarezes, telling the Red Sox, thanks, but no, your offer is not enough, wasn't so much a question of greed but a matter of worth.
These 10 draft prospects are the most big-league ready -- so don't be surprised to see them wearing a major league uniform soon.
Steve King and I couldn't get connected in time to include his perspective in Tuesday's story about early basketball commitments, but we had a long chat Wednesday. King is uniquely qualified to speak on this subject. His son, Taylor, committed to UCLA shortly before starting ninth grade in 2003. Taylor's commitment didn't last; he ultimately signed with Duke and has since transferred to Villanova.
Underrated: Siena. If you watched the Saints wallop a very good Rider team in the MAAC championship game, you know how dangerous this team can be. Siena has very little size (no starters taller than 6-foot-7) and experience (only one senior), yet it has four different players who are capable of scoring 20 or more points. Since they play a five-out, none-in style offense, they can lose to anyone when their threes aren't falling, but you could say that about a lot of teams -- including their first-round opponent, Vanderbilt.
For the past few weeks, we've been hearing about what a wide-open bubble picture we were going to have this year. Well, that picture got a little bit smaller this week, with two teams with at-large profiles from mid-major conferences -- Gonzaga in the West Coast Conference and South Alabama in the Sun Belt -- lost in their conference tournaments. The bubble picture got a little bit smaller, and it will continue to shrink as the week goes on.
Sports Illustrated came out with five regional rivalry covers for the college basketball preview back in November; in retrospect, we probably would have been fine printing just one: Memphis-Tennessee. In 2007-08, no regular-season game has mattered -- or will matter -- as much as the one that will take place on Saturday night at FedEx Forum.
The rankings for this week, straight up.
I love reading bracket projections as much as the next hoops geek, but even the folks who do them would concede that it is still very early. With so much basketball left, we're a good three weeks from being able to see what will be revealed on Selection Sunday.
On the morning after the longest game of the year -- 226 points, 106 free-throw attempts, 210-plus minutes of real time, 65 minutes of clock -- we keep it short and sweet. Sixteen teams. And Baylor is one of them.
Poetry in motion. That's what Patrick (Patty) Mills says he and Andrew Ogilvy created as they ran the court together at the Australian Institute of Sport last year. Mills would push the ball on a break, whistle to Ogilvy and loft an alley-oop pass toward the rim. With perfect, practiced timing, Ogilvy would appear on the wing: step, catch, dunk.
When Chris Lofton releases a three-pointer in Thompson-Boling Arena of late, the tension in the crowd is palpable: 20,799 fans, simultaneously holding their breath, desperately wanting to explode with emotion. "They are willing every one of his shots to go in," says Tennessee coach Bruce Pearl. But willpower alone cannot overcome the worst of slumps, and Lofton is mired in a hellacious one.
College hoops rankings sans a Bluegrass-state team or a subversive agenda ...
College hoops turns the corner into the conference home-stretch this evening, and as much as we think we've learned from the first two months of the season, it's not enough. The final Associated Press poll of December 2006 is evidence of just how worthless early-season assessments can be. No one considered that Top 25 to be a total abomination at the time, and yet there was one future NIT team (Alabama) in the top 10 and three more (Oklahoma State, Air Force and Clemson) scattered below.
Rankings to devour if you're not busy confronting Bob Knight -- with a bad video camera in hand -- for firing shotgun pellets into your swimming pool...
Fatal laptop issues and a business trip to Nicaragua (yes, I know there's no college football in Nicaragua) have conspired to produce an abridged Heisman Watch this week. Some of you may think it's an improvement.
As anyone who follows college football knows, parity has struck the nation this season like no other. Upsets have been rampant and the New World Order of the college football landscape gets flipped seemingly every week.
Midnight Madness Day is upon us, and it's time to choose what combination we value most in a preseason No. 1 team in the Power Rankings. We're presented with five options:
The 1993 NCAA women's basketball Final Four, held in Atlanta, was notable for a number of reasons: It was the last year of the 48-team tournament format; the first year the Final Four sold out in advance and the first time a Vegas bookie issued a betting line on the games. He made Vanderbilt a four-point favorite in the semifinal against Texas Tech, which showed how little he and, by extension, most people outside the Southwest Conference knew about Sheryl Swoopes, the senior forward for Texas Tech.
So how has David Price, Baseball America's No. 1 prospect and the ace of the top-ranked Commodores, spent his mornings over the past month now that Vanderbilt's spring semester is over?
On the list of desirable sports jobs, "Vanderbilt baseball ticket scalper" has historically ranked pretty low, usually somewhere down around "Rick Majerus's personal trainer" and "Pete Rose's accountant." But last Friday the hawkers were out in front of Hawkins Field, where the Commodores were hosting an NCAA regional, asking $50 for a $10 ticket. Yes, these are heady days at Vandy, and not just because the baseball team -- which not long ago considered 200 people a good draw -- was pulling in SRO crowds of 3,500 over the weekend. Vanderbilt is enjoying unprecedented success in every sport, a run made all the more remarkable by the fact that four years ago it eliminated its athletic department.
With only a week until the Major League draft and three weeks until the College World Series in Omaha, college baseball is heating up in a big way. Last week, the NCAA selection committee announced the 64 teams that made the postseason tournament, playing in 16 regionals across the country. These regionals, hosted by a home university in each instance, will send one university to the next round after playing a double elimination weekend tournament. The 16 regionals are below, with my picks for each regional along with the skinny on every team involved.
SI.com: The Questionsupdated: Wed Apr 18 2007 11:37:00
What was your welcome-to-the-big-leagues moment?
March madness finally came to Sacramento on Saturday. After a mostly sleep-inducing quartet of first-round games in which the margins of victory were 13, 16, 28 and 33 points, respectively, Washington State and Vanderbilt played an edge-of-your-seat double-overtime thriller that featured everything from clutch three-point shooting to game-saving blocked shots. Vanderbilt won it, 78-74, but the real winners were the spectators in Arco Arena who will tell you that they saw the game of the tournament so far.
1. The NCAA selection committee unveiled the brackets on Sunday evening. As of press time, the exclusion of mid-major stalwart Drexel still had Billy Packer inconsolable.
Underrated: Texas The fourth-seeded 'Horns are as formidable as all the No. 3s -- and even a couple of No. 2s -- in the bracket. Skinny wunderkind Kevin Durant (25.6 points, 11.3 rebounds per game, unlimited entertainment) strikes fear into the hearts of opposing defenders. Durant will be on a chest-thumping scoring mission in his one-and-done farewell tour; he and freshman point guard D.J. Augustin lead a free-wheeling, Phoenix Suns-style offense that ranks fourth nationally in adjusted offensive efficiency. UT is glaringly inexperienced, starting four freshmen and one sophomore, but the green-Horns play fearlessly, and that's what makes them dangerous.
SI.com: Worth the effortupdated: Wed Mar 07 2007 12:04:00
When Melanie Balcomb signed her first recruiting class at Vanderbilt four years ago, she said just what you'd expect of a coach who had just landed a six-player class that would be rated nation's best. She talked about the program's great tradition and the national title this group was going to add to it.
SI.com: Too good to pass upupdated: Thu Mar 01 2007 09:38:00
It's a Mata-Matta world -- in that order -- at the top of the regular season's final Power Rankings.
These five companies are changing the way private-sector hospitals serve patients, following the lead of the VA's technological innovations.
Money Magazine: The Decade of New Richesupdated: Tue Aug 01 2000 00:01:00
There was a time when millionaires were a rare breed. That's when the world was ruled by an exclusive group with names like Vanderbilt and Carnegie. Today there are more than 7 million U.S. househo...
When a press release on Internet size subtitled GROWTH TREND NOW APPEARS LINEAR landed on our desks, we had to pay attention. We saw the release and hoped to impart some insightful nugget, to descr...
Ford, Mellon, Vanderbilt, Whitney-the names in Florida's Jupiter Island Club directory have a familiar ring. There are even scores of new-money power brokers, such as Louis Gerstner, CEO of IBM, an...
-- In the ''information richness'' studies that Vanderbilt professor Richard Daft conducts, employees invariably say that face-to-face communication with management and fellow employees is preferab...
SCIENCE HAS CREATED few things with as many potential uses as the laser. This eerie beam of light, needle-thin and purer than anything found in nature, can be made to glow hotter than the surface o...
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