Card Game

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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The NCAA Tournament offers a new beginning? Hardly. No new beginnings, please, unless you’re going to do something totally different. Pep-talking yourself into a “new season” is the kind of self-motivation that winds up getting you slammed into a brick wall.
Rick Pitino’s Louisville does have some things going for it as the tourney approaches. Although [...]

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