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Louisville Baseball Brings Expectations
Six inches of snow, but time moves on.
University of Louisville baseball begins next week. Why fans should care:
- Four game series at home against Bowling Green starting Friday 19th.
- Then off to Florida for three Big 10 foes — Michigan, Michigan State and Minnesota — in three days, Feb. 26-28.
- Louisville is ranked 12th in the Rivals.com pre-season coaches’ poll.
- Ranked 13th by Baseball America magazine.
- Picked to win conference by Big East coaches.
- Pitcher Dan Shaw named to National Stopper of the Year Watch List by National College Baseball Writers Assocation.
- Third baseman Phil Wunderlich named pre-season All America by NCBWA.
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Louisville Commit: Big, Bad B. J. Butler
Intriguing, the University of Louisville’s latest football commitment, the kind of player who’s been missing the past couple of seasons — big, talented, aggressive and, apparently, with some discipline issues.
B. J. Butler, a 6-foot-3, 225-pound athlete from Kissimmee Osceola, Fla., has decommited from the University of Georgia to play for U of L’s Charlie Strong, having declared to the Orlando Sentinel: “”Coach Strong, he’s just a real person. He’s a good coach, a good friend. He’ll teach you right from wrong and get you right.”
Rated a four-star recruit by Rivals, Butler played quarterback and defensive end in high school. He was suspended by his high school coach for his final two games.
Butler had some issues with getting right toward the end of his senior year, when Osceola Coach Jeff Rolson suspended him for the final two games for ‘disciplinary reasons.’ “It wasn’t an argument or anything like that,” said Butler, who would have been reinstated had Osceola been able to get past Lakeland in the state quarterfinals. “They said I was uncoachable and disrespectful. They told me to hit the house, so I hit the house.”
He will bring something else that’s been missing as well– a pass rush if this youtuber is any indication:
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Get It Out There
The problem is not a unique local challenge, of course. The Internet can be a great communications tool but, unfortunately, it is being used in a destructive way by some. Fan message boards are a modern wonder but they also come with considerable risk to personal reputations. A time is coming when that will have to be fixed.
Bandwagon Time
The fifth-ranked University of Louisville soccer team will square off against Notre Dame at 5:30 today in the semifinals of the Big East Tournament at Morgantown, WV.
The game will be telecast live by CBS Sports, channel 531 on Insight Cable. Coach Ken Lolla’s goal is to win the national championship. He’s not given to coach speak, rah-rah talk or idle chatter.
Get on board.
