Month: January 2009

Expending a lot of energy in the first half, even for the University of Louisville, making West Virginia desperate for an undeflected pass or an unfettered dribble.  Bob Huggins has…

* * * Per Sonja: The Lady Cards at Providence game at 2 p.m. will be broadcast on 1080 AM band instead of 103.9 FM because of technical difficulties.

By Charlie Springer The success of the University of Louisville basketball team has quieted or drowned out some of the bitching about the football program. Or have they gone underground?…

By Paul Sykes Johnny Renshaw, the former afternoon drive guy on the defunct 93.1 The Ticket radio station, has resurfaced in Louisville on television. He’s hosting an hour-long sports show…

No heat, no lights at home for many but slick returns for the 17,184 at Freedom Hall. No motivational speeches before this one, but warnings of a possible upset. Sure,…

Consider yourself fortunate if you have power today. University of Louisville fans are covered in ice.  Big chunks of trees down as far as the Observer can survey in the front yard, side…

ye-popping numbers. Louisville’s latest football verbal once ran for 485 yards on 25 carries in one game. That averages out to 19.2 yards per carry. He scored four touchdowns that…

Add Horace Miller to the growing list of commitments to the University of Louisville’s 2009 football recruiting class. The Baltimore Dunbar player has made the switch from Nevada-Las Vegas (UNLV)…

If there was anything to be gained from the 93-65 beating the University of Louisville women suffered at the hands of top-ranked UConn on Monday, it is the realization that…

The University of Louisville football team has secured a verbal from Roy Philon, a defensive lineman from Lexington Bryan Station who was heralded by the Courier-Journal last month as “one…

Was there ever a crowd of 30,000 people as quiet as the Carrier Dome throng? The quiescence was not from a sense of awe, Syracuse fans would never admit that.…

Syracuse basketball coach Jim Boeheim does battle with a sound system, more than likely a system designed by a Syracuse graduate. Stick with it, the situation goes from funny to…

Reasons for the University of Louisville basketball team to be motivated as Rick Pitino’s crew takes on Syracuse on Sunday: — Syracuse had the least enthusiastic fans over Louisville’s entry…

The Observer steps aside briefly to allow the favorite son to pass along a few flashbacks of growing up in the family of a couple of University of Louisville diehards.…

By Charlie Springer Long overdue, a non-buzzer breather. Actually enjoying a game, laughing it up at times. No sweaty palms, no holding of the breath, no admonishing of anybody, no…

Spare us the political rhetoric and the mindless blame games, Rick Pitino. It is inappropriate for a University of Louisville basketball coach to interpose political views on fans. The media…

Angel McCoughtry soars for an uncontested layup in leading the University of Louisville women’s basketball team to a 66-50 win over Cincinnati at Freedom Hall on Tuesday. She had 23…

Moving from school to school is not uncommon for assistant football coaches. Shouldn’t be too much of  a shock that Tony Alford would leave the University of Louisville to accept…

Recognition is good, but with it comes the knowledge that each game becomes more challenging. The University of Louisville basketball team climbed to No. 9 in this week’s Associated Press…

This is not your grandmother’s women’s basketball team. Showdown week for the University of Louisville women’s basketball team, currently ranked No. 7 nationally with a 18-1 overall mark and 5-0…