Grunt work ahead for Louisville basketball
A team with a lot of promise two games ago bearing little resemblance on Monday to the one that was tied for first place in the Atlantic Coast Conference a…
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A team with a lot of promise two games ago bearing little resemblance on Monday to the one that was tied for first place in the Atlantic Coast Conference a…
One has to shudder at the audacity of Butch Beard in attempting to embarrass the University of Louisville on racial issues. The former UofL player claiming there is a lack…
Another poor start to a season for the University of Kentucky basketball, the worst start in almost a century, losing five of its first six games. But anyone who knows…
The University of Louisville has decided to put the imminent future of the men’s basketball program into the Independent Accountability Resolution Process, or IARP, to decide upon the what, if…
Living life on the edge. Never thought the Observer would see a day when attending a University of Louisville basketball game would be risky behavior. Finally getting away from the…
Before anyone asks, the distance from Chengdu to the Wuhan Province in China is 707 miles. Wuhan, of course, is where the global pandemic began. Hopefully there will be no…
Far too many unknowns as the University of Louisville begins practice for the 2020-21 basketball season. Action is supposed to tip off November 25th but hardly anyone knows who will…
Not surprising that a Black faculty group would want to remove the name of Adolph Rupp from the building where the University of Kentucky plays college basketball. He’s an easy…
When one of America’s wealthiest universities is cutting athletic programs, others should be concerned. Educational institutions tend to follow the leader so one can see Vince Tyra already sharpening his…
Probably inevitable, with the heightened media focus on Covid-19. The University of Louisville basketball program has temporarily suspended practice activities for at least two weeks after two members tested positive…
John Swofford was front and center on one of the biggest days in University of Louisville history. He was, in fact, the individual, who as Commissioner, officially welcomed UofL into…
Too many times over the years one has marveled at how some players wound up playing center at the University of Louisville. Not naming names but far too often big…
One has to wonder how much longer the singing of “My Old Kentucky Home” will occur at sporting events in the Bluegrass. Anything associated with slavery is a candidate for…
Big Wesley Unseld was the total package. Some actually believe he was the greatest to ever play basketball at the University of Louisville. The 74-year-old local legend died Tuesday of…
One could say that Ed Peak gets excited over things most people don’t even think about. The last two weeks or so I’ve been hungry for those preseason college football…
While watching the recent replay of the University of Louisville basketball team’s win over UCLA in 1980, one was reminded that one of UofL’s biggest fans ever was not in…
Just when one was growing optimistic that some common sense had permeated the NCAA, along comes the organization dredging up old allegations against the University of Louisville. Launching an attack…
By Ed Peak Way too much time to think and so few answers. Well into this Covid-19 pandemic, one still doesn’t know how to take all of the solitude and…
By Ed Peak As I leaned back in a chair on my deck on a beautiful spring day during this Covid-19 pandemic, I glanced toward a University of Louisville flag…
All that speed, all those points, and, yes, those distinctive and adorable eye lashes, she’s coming back to the University of Louisville women’s basketball team. Dana Evans, the Atlantic Coast…