Card Game

Before the basketball season becomes a distant memory, need to throw some beads Andre McGee’s way:
McGee will never be an All-American, never make All-Conference, and will never see his basketball jersey hanging from the rafters. But he’s the kind of individual you want to have playing basketball at the University of Louisville, what his coach [...]

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For everybody who held their breath all day long and nearly suffocated early in the second half: Sit back, relax, put your feet up and take a deep one. In and out, inhale, exhale, inhale, exhale. Now try grinning from ear to ear. It’s for real: Louisville 79, Tennessee 60. Cards are in the [...]

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The dream scenario is that everything finally comes together, youth becomes maturity, potential becomes reality. Not enough to play two good games the first week. Growth has to be real, not adrenaline induced but knowledge and experience-based and extended over three weeks.
David Padgett playing more than eight-minute stretches, sky hooks connecting both sides of the [...]

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Seems like an eternity until 9:40 p.m. on Friday when Louisville and Boise State tip off in Birmingham. Good thing for Rick Pitino: there’s a lot to work on between now and then to avoid an early exit.
One of the best things U of L has going for it is that Birmingham is [...]

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