I’ve been chastised by several loyal readers for my failure to track every moment of the NBA playoffs. So, as a tease, I was going to start today’s blog with something like: “Did you see the big game last night? How about Samoa’s boffo start against Fiji in the Rugby 7s Las Vegas consolation game?” [...]
Branding is one thing. Brandishing, another altogether. Rick Pitino has used the former, advertising terminology, regarding his mission at U of L. As in “rebranding the program.” I hate such talk, but know what he means. Brandishing is what former Cardinal baller Terrence Williams has been charged with. As in waving a gun about in [...]
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January 24, 2013 – 10:21 am
Got to start out with my man Swop. Forced to walk the plank off the Cruiser Cardinal by Cap’n Rick, Jared Swopshire swam to shore off Lake Michigan, landing in Evanston at Northwestern. Where he’s been toiling this season for the ever underperforming Wildcats under the mediocre tutelage of Bill Carmody. As I’ve mentioned probably [...]
November 29, 2012 – 12:19 pm
Last night I experienced the oddest feeling. So odd was it I almost called EMS. While watching the finale of the Made For TV Big Ten/ ACC Showdown, I found myself actually rooting for . . . Duke. Frankly, though unexpected, it was not totally inexplicable. One, I dislike Ohio State — yes, even more [...]
November 28, 2012 – 2:46 pm
The only people around today who haven’t talked exclusively about U of L’s invite to the ACC are Diane Rehm and my piano teacher, Chris Bizianes. He should know better. He played in the Cardinal Pep Band during the halcyon days of the 80s. Shame on him. Rehm is excused. Her national radio talk show [...]
November 21, 2012 – 8:47 am
I know it hurts, Cardinal fans. Hurts scary bad. I know you’re worried. That you want to be left alone to pop open your 14th Fall City and cry in your beer. That your buddy at work told you he drove by Charlie Strong’s house and there’s already a For Sale sign in the yard. [...]
November 19, 2012 – 10:28 am
Since the grass most always appears greener on the neighbor’s lawn, it’s just about a sure thing that Maryland — and its Sarah Palinish running mate, Rutgers — shall be jerrymandered into the numerically-incorrect Big Ten sooner rather than later. Which, assuming the Domino Effect is in play, means UConn will jump the Big East [...]
September 19, 2012 – 4:57 pm
On Sunday, in my breakdown of Louisville’s glad to get outtahere W over North Carolina, I forgot to rail against a truly inexplicable coaching gaffe emanating from the Cardinal sideline. (I know it’s late. I know it’s been talked about. I know we’re already looking ahead, trying to figure out how to enjoy the upcoming [...]
September 12, 2012 – 4:34 pm
The miasma permeating my space right now is the stench of my own predilection. Or, to be less verbose, I am the victim of the old adage: Be careful what you wish for, it might come true. For years now, I have been decrying the part-time presence of Notre Dame in the Big East. The [...]
September 11, 2012 – 10:17 am
Okay for those of you not fluent in Yiddish, the definition: Tsouris translates as trouble, distress, heartburn from the outcome of a stressful situation. It’s a feeling to be avoided at all costs. Well, it’s what those hallowed Tobacco Road superschools are feeling these days. At least that’s what right minded observers of the sports [...]
