One of the biggest coups during Bill Olsen’s tenure as athletic director at the University of Louisville was snatching first broadcast rights on WHAS Radio away from the University of Kentucky in 1980.
“Kentucky had had first priority on WHAS for more than 35 years,” Olsen recalls. “The UK people assumed that would always be the […]
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Olsen Snatched WHAS
June 10th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Tags: Bill Olsen · Bob Scherer · Jim Host
Jim Host Arena Keeps Moving
May 12th, 2008 · 1 Comment
University of Louisville fans can exhale now. The downtown arena for the U of L basketball teams is a go. This time for sure.
Assured Guaranty, a Bermuda-based company has agreed to insure the bonds for the facility to the tune of $280 million in a variable-rate bonds and the remaining $80 million in fixed […]
Tags: Jim Host · Jim King · Rick Pitino · Tina Ward-Pugh · Uncategorized · University of Louisville · University of Louisville Arena
Get ‘Er Done, Jim Host!
February 20th, 2008 · 4 Comments
Jim Host, chairman of the Arena Authority, is not one to let bureaucracy get in the way of the new University of Louisville basketball arena. Apparently going to ignore a request from a state agency to delay demolition of buildings on the site.
“We don’t have time to wait for two or three months until […]
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