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 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 – 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 22, 2009 – 10:07 am
Revised 10/22 @ 10:18 a.m. I stand corrected. I’m advised that the gentlemen were spotted eating dinner not lunch. My apologies for any inconvenience this misinformation might have caused.
From a source both reliable and intelligent, a fellow not inclined to gossip or engage in idle chatter, this nugget, which he swears to be true.
Spotted [...]
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 8, 2009 – 2:55 pm
Guess which upper echelon hoops program nabbed the best junior forward in the land over the weekend? Ho hum, it’s the Tar Heels. The rich continue to get richer. Kid’s name is James McAdoo. That sure sounds familiar. I wonder if he’s relatedto . . .
No American man has made it to the quarter [...]
September 6, 2009 – 8:39 pm
The Film Babe and I are going to see the late show of “In The Loop.” But it doesn’t start for another hour and a half. So here I am killin’ time, thinking about the world of sports.
Is Rachel Alexandra the sportsperson of the year?
My Detroit Tigers are 7 games up in the AL Central. [...]
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August 26, 2009 – 4:39 pm
i’m not sure what to make of Rick Pitino’s press conference this August Wednesday afternoon. It was obviously called in response to televised publication of tapes of Karen Sypher’s interview with Louisville police.
Pitino is pissed. That was obvious. The thrust of his comments, which seemed to come from a place of mounting frustration over the [...]
August 21, 2009 – 10:31 am
It is the best of times. It is the worst of times.
Oh, Ms. Walston would be so proud. I actually remember and can paraphrase some Dickens.
The cities: Louisville and Lexington.
The best/ worst (depending in which city you reside): Rick Pitino’s reputation and John Calipari’s reputation.
The newspapers in Lexington and Memphis have today provided some interesting [...]
