November 20, 2009 – 11:36 am
Let the kvetching commence!
UK beat Sam Houston State handily. Yet, with three fresh faced frosh, playing only their third college game, scoring 66% of the Cats points, the caterwauling still began.
Yes, Kentucky’s defense was as substantial as cardboard that sat at the curb in an all day rain. Giving up 18 threes just days after [...]
November 18, 2009 – 3:02 pm
Before we delve more deeply into Louisville’s W over the depleted Razorbacks, I gots to ask a question.
Who was the guy who not so long ago wrote that Reggie Delk and Jared Swopshire were the weak links in this year’s version of the Cardinals, that they are the fellows most likely to get lost in [...]
November 17, 2009 – 5:44 pm
Revised 11/18. 10:25 a.m. An alert reader advises that Lou Holtz does not have bad dentures, but suffers from a speech impediment. In fact, he has become and advocate for people suffering similar speech disorders. Thus my attempts at humor regarding his speech are seriously ill advised. I thus have edited my comments in this [...]
November 16, 2009 – 10:11 pm
The most disappointing performance of this Monday night — Except for Baltimore and Cleveland who are doing their best U of L vs. ‘Cuse imitation midway through the 2d quarter — is that of the boyz at catspause.com.
I mean they’re actually cutting their 2-0 Cats some slack. Perspective. Whodathunkit?
Okay, one guy was calling for D’Andre [...]
November 7, 2009 – 9:37 pm
I received ESPN The Magazine’s College Basketball Preview issue in the mail today.
The panel of experts ranks their top 64 schools.
Kansas is #1.
Kentucky is #4.
Louisville is # . . . I dunno. The Cards are nowhere to be found.
Which is to say the sports giant which heralds Bilas and Fraschilla and Gottleib and Vitale and [...]
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 [...]
