November 4, 2009 – 5:12 pm
Tonight’s “exhibition” against the formidable Bellarmine Knights is not your daddy’s walkover.
Exhibit A: LeMoyne 82, Syracuse 79.
Exhibit B: Bellarmine Knights. Allow me to repeat what I said about last year’s edition of the Norris Placers. “They run the motion offense better than any team I’ve seen this year at any level.” There is no reason [...]
October 29, 2009 – 4:33 pm
It is difficult, and more than a bit unfair, to judge a team after one exhibition. Especially when it’s played less than two weeks after the start of practice.
But, hey, I’ve never let such reasoning get in the way before. And it’s too late to stop now.
As ragged as the performance was, it didn’t disappoint. [...]
October 29, 2009 – 3:59 pm
Those Nelligan Marketing folks who seem to have grabbed hold of U of L athletics by the short and curlies won’t let go. At last night’s first Cardinal hoops battle, they inundated the crowd as is their wont with continuously loud abrasive music during pre-game. If they feel compelled to play loud music at every [...]
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 22, 2009 – 8:57 pm
So I posted Chairman Rick’s Media Day comments previously. Some observations from and about the players.
Asked what he did to improve over the summer, Samardo Samuels talked about improving his quickness, eating healthier and working on his rebounding. He mentioned how helpful new assistant Ralph Willard is, how he’s teaching the players to be [...]
October 22, 2009 – 6:57 pm
Not much I like better on a gray autumn day than the squeak of sneakers on hardwood.
Observations from Chairman Rick at Media Day:
“The team has a great attitude, maybe the best since I’ve been coaching.
“Reggie Delk will be much better than (we) witnessed last year. TWill simply dominated him so in practice. (Later, during one [...]
October 19, 2009 – 3:58 pm
From: Larry Wilder
Scott Roby
Today, University of Louisville student-athletes, Terrence Jennings and Jerry Smith, were arraigned on charges of Resisting Law Enforcement as Class A Misdemeanors. Immediately following the arraignment both Jennings and Smith entered pleas of guilty to the underlying charges.
The pair admitted that, on October 11, 2009, they “knowingly and intentionally defied, obstructed and [...]
October 16, 2009 – 12:27 pm
Put your hands on your computer screens, children, and give me a big Hallelujah.
Basketball practice starts today. (And, while my favorite team — U of L’s Cardinals — don’t have a Midnight Madness, my guess is The Rick has already put the boys through their first practice. If not, it will be soon enough. And, [...]
September 28, 2009 – 8:56 pm
And I’m not talking football, but the sport that was, is and always will be #1 in the Land o’ Red & Black: Basketball.
My source is a person of reasonable reliability with no reason to pass along anything so spicy unless he/ she believed it was with merit, a person who has been part of [...]
September 16, 2009 – 9:10 pm
. . . and giving serious props to Gary Parrish, cbssports.com’s college baskeball expert . . . and praying for Billy Clyde Gillispie’s recovery.
Larry Eustachy is now the hoops coach at Southern Mississippi.
A little over a half decade ago, when he was at Iowa State, he was legitimately in the conversation about the [...]
