Louisville sports fans know I’m a life long U of L fan. Louisville sports fans know I’ve got this blog — which gives me the appearance of being in the know, if not the reality of same — in which space, I pontificate as if I know something about U of L sports. And other [...]
April 24, 2012 – 12:48 pm
A little of this and a little of that: I don’t care that Terrence Jones had a flotilla of media types following along. I thought it kinda neat that he kept his promise and brought flowers to the U of L cheerleader he pummeled while chasing a loose ball in the NCAA semis. Maybe it [...]
Yes, my loyal readers, I’m still around. Just kind of hit the wall after the Final Four. Misplaced my muse. Had an early season slump, to use baseball lingo. (Though nothing like the BoSox sputtering start. Beantowners aren’t jumping off Fanueil Hall’s tower . . . yet . . . reports my on the scene [...]
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February 3, 2012 – 9:43 am
Are we tired of hearing about Peyton Manning? I certainly am. The King of Super Bowl Media Week has morphed into Brett Favre before our very eyes. You’d think they guy stopped funding for breast cancer research or something of little consequence like that. * * * * * Sports fans here in Hoopsylvania pride [...]
November 10, 2011 – 10:34 am
In Happy Valley, it is not the same as it ever was. Nor, to be honest, is it across the sporting landscape of America. Former Penn State football coach, iconic Joe Paterno awoke this Thursday morning — if he slept at all — maybe telling himself, “This is not my beautiful house.” For the first [...]
October 16, 2011 – 10:20 am
Schnell on the Schneid. The appropriate word here is easy: Bittersweet. Schnell opened his new stadium at Florida Atlantic, a program he’s built from scratch. The inagural game’s foe was on the rise but still relatively hapless Western Kentucky. I wrote earlier in the week that it would be a bowl game for the Fighting [...]
October 10, 2011 – 10:29 am
Show Me, Missouri. All eyes, at least those of the college sports world, are looking toward Columbia, Missouri. Is the domino teetering, ready to fall in a southeasterly direction? Or, are they shoring up their midwestern foundation? I know Cardinal fans have out their binoculars, hoping for a better view. So too, West Virginia Mountaineer [...]
October 9, 2011 – 11:00 am
Lost Weekend. Kentucky garnered 96 yards of total offense and played no defense in a 3-54 loss to South Carolina. In one quarter — the 3d, I believe — Louisville had more penalty yards than offensive yards. Forget the numbers, the Cardinals had four legit chances to tally in the first half and came up [...]
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September 8, 2011 – 10:27 am
It’s All MoneyBall. Desperate to remain relevant, Baylor goes Corso, telling the Aggies, “Hold on just a moment, my friend.” A & M goes SEC. Hook ‘Em Horns and Boomer Sooners go PAC Double Dozen or SEC or Big 10(20) or wherever they pretty damn well please. Rock Chalk Jayhawk, K-State and Mizzou go BEast. [...]
September 4, 2011 – 2:51 pm
College Football Saturday’s Biggest Loser: Got to be Mark Richt, the already beleaguered Georgia coach, whose Bulldogs not only fell to Boise State, but showed up in unis so outré, my Oregon Quack looked positively Penn State on the other channel. UGAly is the descriptor that immediately comes to mind. I’m so sure there were [...]
