January 10, 2013 – 8:12 am
Edited 1/10 at 9:45 am (Thanks to a reminder in a Facebook post by a loyal reader.) If nothing else, U of L survived it’s first test this season with Jim Burr in stripes, holding one of the whistles. Which he used as injudiciously as usual. Especially on Wayne Blackshear’s third foul. The Cardinal SF [...]
January 9, 2013 – 7:27 am
Of all the insipid controversies that crop up like brush fire when folks seem to feel the need to stand up for political correctitude, this one takes the cake. Alabama was beating up on Notre Dame the other night. It was as if the South Benders just got off the boat from Ireland, and thought [...]
January 8, 2013 – 10:53 am
I’m not sure we learned much about the current state of college football from the most boring bowl season in memory. Other than Clemson’s single digit W in the battle of the Death Valleys, the Hook Em Horns late comeback against the Beavers, The Potato Eaters Vegas W over UDub and Arizona’s nailbiter over Nevada, [...]
January 1, 2013 – 9:27 am
Noogie. To the Courier-Journal sports page editors. Perhaps I shouldn’t be quite so unrelenting while continually pointing out the foibles and follies of the C-J’s sports page, which has become an almost daily example of bad editing. After all, I make a lot of editing mistakes myself, not to mention errors of grammar and spelling. [...]
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December 23, 2012 – 11:03 am
When the telecast of last night’s game came on TV, and it was revealed whom the color commentator would be, I turned to my bride, and said, “I hate when Bobby Knight does a game.” Which is different than hating Bobby Knight for his duplicity, which I also do. Knight is most always less prepared [...]
December 14, 2012 – 9:54 am
Before moving on to other matters, let’s cue up Marty Glickman from the Gaaaaahhden. It’s time we must bid a sad adieu to the soon-to-be-yesterday’s-stale-bagel Big East, her intense rivalries, Dave Gavitt’s well-intentioned promise, her glory early spring days in the Garden, Big John with his shoulder towel vs. Little Louie in Macy’s ugliest sweater, [...]
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November 24, 2012 – 8:26 am
First, the gloom-inducing set up for my favorite sequence of the season. Louisville’s 10-4 run gave them a solid 39-31 halftime advantage. But the Tigers ran off four to start the second half, two FTs after a Blackshear foul, and a put back by Alex “Didn’t He Used To Play For UConn?” Oriakhi. Then Peyton [...]
November 23, 2012 – 10:33 am
Perhaps it’s turkey toxicity. (Insert L-tryptophan joke here.) Maybe it’s that the game started and finished so late. Could be dullness caused by NBC Sports mediocre announcers, who kept referring to Silent L as “Whore-El.” Which I must assume is how you pronounce Harrell, after spending the day swimming with dolphins in a 14 acre [...]
November 14, 2012 – 9:00 am
Of all the sights and sounds emanating from 24 hours of college hoops — of which I watched far too much — my favorite moment was the first sighting of St. John’s special assistant Gene Keady. The former mentor at Western Kentucky and Purdue is one of the nicest guys I’ve met in my short [...]
October 29, 2012 – 10:38 am
So, yesterday I couldn’t help but think of the somewhat famous Tennessee Williams’ quip: “There are but three cities in the United States. New Orleans, New York and San Francisco. All the rest is Cleveland.” Thinking of New York because of the justified hullabaloo about Hurricane Sandy and all the mess going on in the [...]
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