Month: August 2011

So what if the temperature is in excess of 90 degrees. The college football season has arrived. The days of a long hot summer are numbered. The University of Louisville is…

The view of New York from Cabin 160 as Hurricane Irene approaches. Guess who was hunkered down in a ship for two days in a New York harbor as Hurricane…

[stextbox id=”custom”] Cardinal Laws, one of the observer’s favorite U of L blog sites, is in hyperspace denial, a torture reserved for web site owners who forget to renew their…

By Paul Sykes A wakeup call for University of Louisville fans. ESPN columnist Pat Forde has picked Murray State to upset U of L in the season football opener Thursday. Before rushing out and having Forde…

[stextbox id=”custom”] For the UCLA account of No. 1 University of Louisville’s 2-0 soccer win over the No. 2 Bruins, report to the Daily Bruin. [/stextbox]

[stextbox id=”custom”] Thus far Charlie Strong has gotten everything he wants at the University of Louisville. He needed speed and talent badly at the cornerback position … and help is…

By Andrew Melnykovych It was probably too much to expect the University of Louisville men’s soccer team to deliver a repeat of their last match with UCLA when the two…

By Andrew Melnykovych The University of Louisville women’s soccer team lost to 19th-ranked Illinois Sunday at Cardinal Park in overtime, 2-1, and in the process showed that they still have…

Seems like ages ago the observer stopped by a spring practice at the indoor practice facility to get a feel for how things were shaping for another new football coach.…

Full of enthusiasm, inspiring confidence when he met with the media before last season, Victor Anderson said he had recovered from injuries that sidelined him most of his sophomore year.…

Charlie Strong said his University of Louisville football team is growing physically, intellectually, emotionally and spritually.  There’s no better example than defensive end Greg Scruggs who seemed to have trouble…

In the interest of full disclosure. Cotton Top was 12 years old at children’s home in Versailles when he became a University of Louisville devotee. Like the other kids he hated the…

A fellow fan tells me his granddaughter is the flower girl in a wedding. How nice. Except that the wedding occurs on the same day as the upcoming University of…

A frequent complaint from some of the more crankyUniversity of Louisville fans is the fading of the chairbacks in Papa John’s Cardinal Stadium. Once a brilliant red, the original seats are…

[stextbox id=”custom”] Two University of Louisville soccer players are on the watch list for the Hermann Trophy, the highest individual award in college soccer. The award, sponsored by the Missouri…

The new T-shirt Rick Pitino was wearing during his appearance at the Cardinal Caravan more than sums up the way he feels about his job at the University of Louisville,…

The Ladybirds were out in force for the final Cardinal Caravan giving University of Louisville fans another meet and greet before the fall sports season gets underway. No mention of…

[stextbox id=”custom”] Congratulations to Howie and Stasia Lindsey, the proud parents of their first child, a bouncing baby boy. The future University of Louisville great arrived Wednesday. Howie is the…

Nevin Shapiro went from being Miami’s biggest fan to one of the school’s biggest haters after a Ponzi scheme blew up in his face. Calls to former UM football players…

Those behind-the-scenes dealings in college athletics have a habit of coming back to bite schools in the butt. We keep hearing that everybody does it, that cheating is rampant in college athletics,…