January 16, 2013 – 10:05 pm
The Vanderbilt Commodores were hot. They hit 17 threes against Ole Miss at home. And lost. On a three at the buzzer. Sometimes being really hot is . . . not so hot. * * * * * NC State was hot. The Wolfpack beat previously unbeaten Duke over the weekend. Tonight they lost at [...]
January 12, 2013 – 9:21 am
First, allow me to apologize for the generic nature of this blog’s title. I would have loved to give you something snappy, something to grab your attention. Didn’t happen. And, let me admit up front, I turned off the UK game at Vandy early in the 1st, when it appeared obvious the Wildcats were going [...]
January 8, 2013 – 10:53 am
I’m not sure we learned much about the current state of college football from the most boring bowl season in memory. Other than Clemson’s single digit W in the battle of the Death Valleys, the Hook Em Horns late comeback against the Beavers, The Potato Eaters Vegas W over UDub and Arizona’s nailbiter over Nevada, [...]
January 1, 2013 – 9:27 am
Noogie. To the Courier-Journal sports page editors. Perhaps I shouldn’t be quite so unrelenting while continually pointing out the foibles and follies of the C-J’s sports page, which has become an almost daily example of bad editing. After all, I make a lot of editing mistakes myself, not to mention errors of grammar and spelling. [...]
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December 30, 2012 – 11:42 am
A couple of important notes before I hit the details. I understand that Gorgui Dieng’s parents are not familiar with our ways in the Commonwealth. They don’t even speak English. Plus it’s hard to even comprehend the culture shock they must have felt in yesterday’s Yum! Center environment. Strangers in a strange land, they were. [...]
December 29, 2012 – 7:00 am
When this annual rivalry game is played, there are always fans from the visiting school who manage to find their way into the arena. When Louisville plays in Rupp, there’s some red, but it’s a smattering. I’ve been there once for the game, DeJuan Wheat’s and Jason Osborne’s first as Cardinals, the year the tilt [...]
December 28, 2012 – 9:32 am
Yes, it’s 32 hours until tipoff and I’m so sure you’re waiting with baited breath for my position by position breakdown of tomorrow’s game. You know, Kentucky vs. Louisville? Here’s the deal. I’m doing my best to try not to think about it. By any measure, this would seem to be the Cardinals year to [...]
December 27, 2012 – 1:00 pm
There are reasons why Lance Guidry has been passed over twice in his desire to be head football coach at Western Kentucky. None of them, by the by, is Bobby Petrino, to whom the Toppers, setting aside ethics and morality, have chosen to be their next coach. The most obvious reasons Guidry’s been passed over [...]
December 26, 2012 – 9:49 pm
According to CBSSports.com’s Jeff Goodman, Rick Pitino says Gorgui Dieng is good to go on Saturday. “100 percent,” Louisville coach Rick Pitino told CBSSports.com on Wednesday night. The 6-foot-11 Senegal big man has been out since Nov. 23 with a broken wrist, but Pitino told CBSSports.com that Dieng practiced on Wednesday and will definitely play [...]
December 26, 2012 – 11:29 am
A recurring theme here during basketball season has been my continuing appreciation for the quality of Hoosier high school coaching. Just seems to me that most kids who have played prep hoops in Indiana and make it on to play in college know what they’re doing. I was reminded of this at the end of [...]
