Category Archives: NCAA

Sports Shorts Tuesday: T-Will, Titles & T-Bone

May 21, 2013 – 11:25 am

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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Thursday Throwdown: Swop, Smackdown, St. X & More

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 [...]

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Tuesday Sports Update: A Little of This & Some of That

October 23, 2012 – 4:04 pm

Anybody out there watching Celtic take on Barcelona in a Champions League match at Camp Nou? Didn’t think so. Surprisingly, Celtic is up early, 1 nil. But you really really don’t care, right? I’ll move on. * * * * * Despite all the negative tests, Lance Armstrong did take performance enhancing drugs, it seems. [...]

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Friday’s Snippets: Many Sports Included

September 7, 2012 – 10:06 am

Revised 9/07 10:20 am U of L finally released its men’s (and women’s) basketball schedules. Last year’s Final Four team warmed up for the conference campaign with the most ambitious home schedule of the Pitino Era. Long Beach State, surprising Ohio, College of Charleston, Vanderbilt and Memphis all visited the Yum!. Cardinal fans actually had [...]

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Sports Sunday: British Edition + Bonus Stateside Stuff

July 22, 2012 – 3:00 pm

As if to desensitize us to the plethora of shots of Big Ben we’ll be seeing in the weeks to come during coverage of the London Olympics, we were “treated” to an all Brit all the time weekend of sports. Two of the world’s great sporting events wound up today, one dominated by Brits, the [...]

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Sunday’s Sports Slog: Simpson, Swop, Silliness +

July 15, 2012 – 11:23 am

There’s no doubt who is the Sports Family Man of Summer. Golfer Webb Simpson. The reigning U.S. Open champ, at the height of his career, is passing on the British Open at Royal Lytham. Seems his bride is in the family way, expected to come to term in a couple of weeks. Instead of heading [...]

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