Card Game

 
Every game the University of Louisville basketball team wins these days is bigger than the last. Still, a 90-85 stretch drive conference win over Notre Dame, a game in which the Cards never trailed, has to rank as one the best regular season wins in the last couple of decades.
Nobody expected the double-digit leads to […]

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Freedom Hall is the Cards’ best friend as Notre Dame rolls into town. The Hall has never been kind to the Irish, against either Louisville or in an old series against Kentucky at the site. ND has rarely won here. In fact, they have rolled over in most games, except for the overtime loss to […]

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Fans who dismiss women’s basketball as all sweetness and light (or even boring, Wes) need to get out more, see what is happening on the court. Angel McCoughtry, Chauntise Wright, Candyce Bingham, Patrika Barlow and company survived a near mugging to defeat Providence 82-57 Tuesday evening. Since when is throwing a deliberate elbow to another […]

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Things that should happen but don’t stand a snowball’s chance in hell:

Give Bobby Knight an official’s uniform, let him demonstrate how a college basketball game should be officiated to give him a taste of his own medicine. Unfortunately, the first time a coach yells at him, Knight will slap him on the ears and shove […]

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Apologies to Norfolk State as the innocent party in what is sure to be a contentious debate in the weeks ahead. Never heard of Norfolk State, even more surprised there’s a football team at the Virginia school. Somehow the Spartans wound up as the second team on the University of Kentucky’s football schedule this fall. […]

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