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 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 [...]
October 25, 2009 – 10:01 am
You got any ibuprofen handy? I’m out and could use a triple dose this morning.
So probably could my favorite caller on the Cards post-game radio talk show. The fellow sounded more than a bit in his cups in the wake of yet another woeful U of L performance, this time in the nation’s fifth oldest [...]
October 23, 2009 – 10:17 am
Funny, I didn’t hear from any of the braying naysayers this week. Oh yeah, I went a perfect 5-0 last weekend. Thanks Schnell, Danke Dabo. Pete, you so Cali. Hook ‘Em Horns. All hail the Hawkeyes.
Which brings the tally to 21 up and only 14 down for the year. Not bad, not bad at all.
But, [...]
October 22, 2009 – 10:07 am
Revised 10/22 @ 10:18 a.m. I stand corrected. I’m advised that the gentlemen were spotted eating dinner not lunch. My apologies for any inconvenience this misinformation might have caused.
From a source both reliable and intelligent, a fellow not inclined to gossip or engage in idle chatter, this nugget, which he swears to be true.
Spotted [...]
October 21, 2009 – 3:36 pm
Elsewhere here at leoweekly.com, and on my web site, culturemaven.com, I contemplate the hubbub that has arisen surrounding the state of Louisville’s football program. Take your choice.
Read the entirety of the essay here.
Or read it here.
Your choice where, but be sure to check it out.
– Seedy K
October 18, 2009 – 3:55 pm
That’s right, kids, it’s the proverbial Tale of Two Cities.
Lexington: happy :: Louisville: sad.
When I watch how resolute the pigskin Cats are, I think of how much I belittled Rich Brooks during his first couple seasons. And, how wrong I, a naysayer, was. UK’s mentor proves year in and year out, game in and game [...]
