U of L’s baseball nine faces #3 seed Oregon State in a loser-goes-home CWS elimination game this afternoon. The Cards are in good company at least. Not that it’s much consolation. The Beavers are one of the eight national seeds. Which means they were favorites over Mississippi State. In the other bracket, North Carolina, the [...]
Updated 6/16 at 2:44 pm. From some initial comments I have received regarding this column, some people, perhaps even most who take delivery of the C-J, received a sports section Sunday morning with stories, which did not not appear in the edition I received. I stand by what I wrote about what I received. There [...]
Looking at the big picture, meaning in overview the entire series with its interesting stories and sidelights, the NBA Finals remain compelling. In microcosm, not so much. Only the first game, the one where San Antonio “stole” a W in Miami — That’s the mandated vernacular, right? — was close. Since then, the teams have [...]
I mean, really now, it’s time for Ken Lolla and his Louisville soccer team to step it up. They only made it to the NCAA Tournament Elite 8, losing to Maryland, 1-3, in the quarter-finals. Tsk, tsk. Okay, that’s obviously an attempt at humor. A lame one perhaps. But, consider this. If the soccer team [...]
Aging Tim Duncan threw the ball away on San Antonio’s first possession Thursday night in the NBA Finals opener. Then he missed his first five shots. But . . . he went 8/14 the rest of the way, including a last second message at the end of the first half. He grabbed 14 rebounds. He [...]
A more dedicated and ambitious scribe than myself would now be checking to see if U of L baseballers Matt Helms and Joe Filomeno have been quafing the same sports drink, or eating the same food in the dorm or otherwise genuflecting before the same spiritual guru as Tim Henderson? It better be. Otherwise there’s [...]
This is it. Make no mistake about it. This is it. One way or another. There will be seven. At best. No 7 come 11. Tonight. Sunday. Tuesday. Thursday. Then, maybe, if we’re lucky, another on the sabbath and Tuesday and Thursday, the “if necessary” games, as the euphemism goes. Then real withdrawal descends upon [...]
There is something so . . . well . . . fresh, I guess would be the descriptor, about locking into college baseball’s post-season. At least, for me. I spent seven years matriculating on the Belknap Campus, and, though a huge sports fan, never once sauntered over to Parkway Field for a Cardinal baseball game. [...]
All sports are laden with “givens,” aspects of the particular game that are accepted as inviolate, considered immutable. Here’s an absolute, if the category is College Baseball, NCAA Tournament. A school that wins the first two games of in one of the 16 regions has an obscene advantage over the other three participants. It is, [...]
Just when I’ve gotten past my Hansbrough enmity — Thanks BirdMan Anderson — just when I’m ready to embrace a team with a Not Ready For Prime Time enfant terrible nicknamed “Born Ready,” just when I’m glorying in the reality that 2/3s of the Miami triumvirate are self destructing before my eyes, Roy Hibbert’s gotta [...]
