Take that Brandon Bender. U of L’s Cardinals have fought back to a draw with former part time b-baller Brandon Bender. By all accounts the woefully underachieving former Ballard Bruin steered Seneca QB DaMarcus Smith to Central Florida. Apparently, much to Smith’s chagrin, after he learned that Bender was just woofin’, and that CF’s star [...]
Now that your obsession with Derby, and my obsession with JazzFest, are done for the year, let’s look ahead to what really matters. Stanley Cup? Well, for a few us here, but not many. MLB? Check with Rick Bozich on that. He’s locked in, even though his ChiSox suck. College Football? Sure, Charlie Strong has [...]
Back from New Orleans, from which locale I did not report on the PGA tourney there during the first weekend of JazzFest. You could care less. I could care less. Though, since many of the golfers stayed at the same hotel where I was, I can confirm this: Their wives were all attractive. And most [...]
February 13, 2011 – 10:52 am
Welcome to Sunday Morning Point Guard! * * * * * For those of you anxiously awaiting with breaths held, The Return of Tiger, knowing in your hearts it will bring peace to the Middle East, compromise in D.C. between the Tea Partiers and pols who actually know what they’re talking about and a cure [...]
February 12, 2011 – 9:50 pm
Chatting up Mike Waters of Syracuse Post-Standard before the game, the Orange beat scribe called Boeheim’s team “schizzy.” I’ll say. Early on, the visitors took the lead with a 6-0 run. Then gave it up as U of L tallied 10 in a row. Which Cardinal jaunt extended to 21-4 for a 40-30 halftime advantage. [...]
February 2, 2011 – 3:02 pm
2:40 pm. Having watched the U of L women’s team meltdown last night at the Yum!, I’m aware just how different their crowd is from those who watch the men’s team. Neither of which is the same as those who attend pigskin battles at Papa J’s. The most unique contingent will probably be the gathering [...]
January 27, 2011 – 12:03 pm
All Glare, No Froth. Several readers have already inquired this a.m. if I know at whom The Rick was looking daggers squared after the final buzzer last night, while the rest of the gym was suitably celebratory? I didn’t see it. But, my guess, from hearing the post game comments, is that George Goode was [...]
January 19, 2011 – 3:37 pm
Who was it the other day who used Anthony Grant as an example of a coach making a questionable “upward” move? Oh yeah, c’est moi. Well, the ‘Bama hoops mentor, after last night’s stunner over UK, is on top of those Alabama sports pages today. Unless, of course, Nick Saban had some recruits at the [...]
January 5, 2011 – 4:16 pm
Here’s one thing you don’t ever have to worry about hearing here: A discouraging word about Jeanine Edwards. Joining Ron Franklin and Billy Clyde Gillispie in the trash heap is not one of my New Year’s resolutions. By the by, has Gillispie, not so long ago one of the sure thing future superstars of college [...]
November 12, 2010 – 9:43 am
It’s gloriously autumnal outside, a veritable Native American Summer’s Day. But for some it’s a Joe Btfsplk kind o’ day. (You remember him, right? At least you old timers. He was the Al Capp character in L’l Abner, who always walked around with a dark rain cloud over his head. That Joe Bftsplk.) The countdown: [...]
