September 8, 2009 – 2:55 pm
Guess which upper echelon hoops program nabbed the best junior forward in the land over the weekend? Ho hum, it’s the Tar Heels. The rich continue to get richer. Kid’s name is James McAdoo. That sure sounds familiar. I wonder if he’s relatedto . . .
No American man has made it to the quarter [...]
September 6, 2009 – 11:51 am
At one point during U of L’s dismal performance last night against a seriously bad Indiana State team on which the Cards should have scored at will, I turned to some fellow scribes within whisper shot and asked: “How are they going to spin this performance?”
To his credit, Steve Kragthorpe kept the sugar coating in [...]
August 26, 2009 – 4:39 pm
i’m not sure what to make of Rick Pitino’s press conference this August Wednesday afternoon. It was obviously called in response to televised publication of tapes of Karen Sypher’s interview with Louisville police.
Pitino is pissed. That was obvious. The thrust of his comments, which seemed to come from a place of mounting frustration over the [...]
. . . how does the Big East’s bowl agreement with Notre Dame help the conference in any positive way at all?
SI.com’s Stewart Mandel interviewed new Big East Commissioner John Marinatto.
Here’s part of the Q & A:
“SI.com: Do you anticipate any change in your bowl relationship with Notre Dame?
Marinatto: No. Notre Dame has been a [...]
For the first time in history U of L is ranked at the top of the AP rankings. Apparently there were no post season polls after the ‘80 and ‘86 seasons when Louisville won national titles.
So, even though it means essentially nada as the Dance commences, it’s a good thing, right?
A few paraphrased comments from [...]
March 15, 2009 – 11:59 am
Okay, I don’t really mean that exactly. But I want to comment on officiating and the Simon & Garfunkel song came to mind. Always looking for a hook, you understand?
Zebras — Can’t live with ‘em, can’t live without ‘em. Rim shot, please.
I’ve been watching hours of hoops over the last couple of days.( Is it [...]
Gary Parrish, cbssports.com’s excellent b-ball columnist was in the Garden. You can read his huzzahs about U of L’s Cards here.
Dana O’Neil — Yes, Cats fans, that Dana O’Neil — at si.com wrote this laudation, which you can read here.
Bill Eichenberger at sportingnews.com weighed in here.
Dan Wetzel, another of America’s leading college hoops pundits, talks [...]
March 15, 2009 – 12:01 am
Cardinal fans have been looking for a nickname for this band of Cardinals. The Swarm — that’s my suggestion.
(Okay, truth be told, my buddy Ben came up with the name. So he gets the credit. By the by, he’s the sage who has always believed in the one game at a time rule: “You only [...]
Okay, let me see if I have this right?
LSU won the regular season SEC championship. They lost in the conference tourney before the title game.
Kansas won the regular season Big 12 championship. They lost in the conference tourney before the title game.
Michigan State won the regular season Big 10 championship. They lost in the conference [...]
March 14, 2009 – 10:44 am
You got your two major theories of basketball acceleration espoused by your Kellogg kin — Clark Kellogg, CBS NCAA color guy and John Harvey Kellogg, inventor of corn flakes. (Okay, they’re not really related.) The former is famous for considering a team’s “spurtability.” The latter is obviously renown for “Snap, Crackle & Pop.”
Okay, Rice Krispies [...]
