Padgett Dynamic – ESPN.com, confused abut the sports seasons, talking basketball in August for the malnourished basketball fanatics, has this to say about the Cards in its Big East ShootAround:
It’s hard not to love a team loaded with the talent that the Cardinals have coming back — Terrence Williams, Earl Clark and Edgar Sosa — [...]
With the departure of the University of Louisville baseball team from the NCAA Tournament, the 2007-08 season has ground to a halt. The year certainly had its ups and downs. Here are my choices of the big stories from a memorable year. If some have been overlooked, and they probably have, let me know:
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Sometimes the other team is better, at least for one game.
Tyler Hansbrough is as good as they come, tireless, hard working, good shooter and rebounder. He was unstoppable most of the time, winding up with 28 points, 13 rebounds. Hansbrough does get away with excessive physicality but that’s not his fault.
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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 [...]
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 [...]
