November 5, 2009 – 10:18 am
Thanks to the Cards, who may have notched their last W of the year, the surprising Blue Devils and the Mighty Mighty Quack, I went 3-2 last week. The tally for the season is 26 up and 19 down. Not enough to pay for a trip to Vegas, but not bad.
Boise State @ Louisiana Tech. [...]
November 5, 2009 – 9:37 am
Some quick observations on the Louisville/ Bellarmine match up that was far less scintillating than I thought it would be.
Speaking of quick, can Preston Knowles elevate and launch in a nanosecond? Yes he can. But I digress.
As for the kids who trekked down Eastern Parkway from their Norris Place home, Scotty Davenport’s Bellarmine Knights simply [...]
November 4, 2009 – 5:12 pm
Tonight’s “exhibition” against the formidable Bellarmine Knights is not your daddy’s walkover.
Exhibit A: LeMoyne 82, Syracuse 79.
Exhibit B: Bellarmine Knights. Allow me to repeat what I said about last year’s edition of the Norris Placers. “They run the motion offense better than any team I’ve seen this year at any level.” There is no reason [...]
November 2, 2009 – 10:50 am
This is about college football, not the Breeders Cup or Churchill Downs’ fall meet. But, hey, anything to grab your — the readers’ — attention, right?
Some meandering ruminations:
The annual carping about the BCS can now officially begin. Anybody with any football sense watching Oregon draw and quarter Southern Cal Saturday understands that this is a [...]
November 1, 2009 – 10:01 am
That’s right, kids, it’s time Network Battle of the Kellys.
Name your fave between the two hottest new coaches on the scene.
Cincy’s Brian Kelly has turned the formerly moribund program with no tradition, no facilities and no fan base into the Beast of the BEast. And more.
Whatever bit the Bearcats, turning them into the most ferocious [...]
October 31, 2009 – 7:27 pm
Revised 11/01 8:20 a.m.
One last Halloween metaphor, before we start talking turkey.
There were more tricks than treats for the locals on October’s last football Saturday. Now pass me that last Snickers.
If ever there was a close (or pretty close) but no cigar team, it’s the Indiana Hoosiers.
They were up 21-7, then 24-14. Iowa’s QB Ricky [...]
October 30, 2009 – 12:25 pm
Squish. Splat. Kethunk. Sssssssssshhhhhhhhhh.
A week after going a perfect 5-0, I was back on my less than considerable game when this Saturday ended with a thump. WashU, Colorado and Team Helmet all let me down. My 2-3 tally for last weekend notwithstanding, I’m still 23-17 on the season.
And now that real autumn is upon us, [...]
October 29, 2009 – 4:33 pm
It is difficult, and more than a bit unfair, to judge a team after one exhibition. Especially when it’s played less than two weeks after the start of practice.
But, hey, I’ve never let such reasoning get in the way before. And it’s too late to stop now.
As ragged as the performance was, it didn’t disappoint. [...]
October 29, 2009 – 3:59 pm
Those Nelligan Marketing folks who seem to have grabbed hold of U of L athletics by the short and curlies won’t let go. At last night’s first Cardinal hoops battle, they inundated the crowd as is their wont with continuously loud abrasive music during pre-game. If they feel compelled to play loud music at every [...]
October 28, 2009 – 5:23 pm
And the Opening Day I’m talking about ain’t the November Madness we used to call the World Series. It shouldn’t take the Bronx Checkbooks more than five games to finish that. Hopefully before the first blizzard of the season. And I don’t mean baseball season.
I am talking about U of L hoops tipoff, which is [...]
