October 29, 2012 – 10:38 am
So, yesterday I couldn’t help but think of the somewhat famous Tennessee Williams’ quip: “There are but three cities in the United States. New Orleans, New York and San Francisco. All the rest is Cleveland.” Thinking of New York because of the justified hullabaloo about Hurricane Sandy and all the mess going on in the [...]
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October 14, 2012 – 1:02 pm
Back in the day, during the era when your stereo system was the most important thing you owned, the stores that sold them would advertise the quality of their systems as Good, Better, Best. Which metaphor I invoke while describing U of L’s performance in its 10 point W @ Pitt. Prior to yesterday, the [...]
September 30, 2012 – 11:49 am
Among the many questions that remain about the Cardinals five games into the season, there are a couple of trends about which we can be certain. They are mudders. Much was made about the water and flooding before and during the Florida International game. Silly us. It was but a prelude to last night’s sloshfest, [...]
September 25, 2012 – 3:28 pm
As with life itself, matters on the gridiron tend to even out. Today there is yin. Tomorrow, yang. (Except when fake refs are monitoring games in the NFL, which, as of this writing, they still are.) I was 9-1 after the first two weeks of the season. I thought it would last. Silly me. I [...]
September 19, 2012 – 4:57 pm
On Sunday, in my breakdown of Louisville’s glad to get outtahere W over North Carolina, I forgot to rail against a truly inexplicable coaching gaffe emanating from the Cardinal sideline. (I know it’s late. I know it’s been talked about. I know we’re already looking ahead, trying to figure out how to enjoy the upcoming [...]
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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September 3, 2012 – 9:59 am
It doesn’t happen all that often, but there moments that on occasion define an era. One such — as you have surely read at any number of places already — came about on Louisville’s third play from scrimmage on Louisville’s first offensive drive of the game, Louisville’s first drive of the season against arch-rival Kentucky. [...]
August 27, 2012 – 1:38 pm
Charlie Strong meets the media on Mondays during the season. The gathering before the UK game is, for obvious reasons, traditionally the best attended. Especially when the game’s in Louisville. The gathered can get their credentials without an extra trip to the SID’s office. Then there’s the BBQ, potato salad and cookies. (Okay, they feed [...]
As Eric Crawford explained more fully in a recent blog, any real information one gets at a Media Day dog and pony show is purely accidental. Charlie Strong is earnest. While he’ll never master coachspeak like his incompetent predecessor — Krag could talk it but not walk it — he seems more comfortable by the [...]
Louisville sports fans know I’m a life long U of L fan. Louisville sports fans know I’ve got this blog — which gives me the appearance of being in the know, if not the reality of same — in which space, I pontificate as if I know something about U of L sports. And other [...]
