The Big East going nowhere fast
A real shame what’s happening to the Big East Conference. Mike Aresco, the new commissioner, has inherited an impossible situation. The schools with football programs should have walked away from…
University of Louisville News & Perspectives
A real shame what’s happening to the Big East Conference. Mike Aresco, the new commissioner, has inherited an impossible situation. The schools with football programs should have walked away from…
Gorgui Dieng at the door. Preparing to step onto the practice floor at the Yum! practice center on Floyd Street for the first time in over three weeks, according to…
With everything great that has happened with the University of Louisville athletics in the past two weeks, especially in football, something is missing. Significant milestones, bringing the university and community…
Maybe ESPN will come to the rescue, maybe not. You know, with a showcase game for Teddy Bridgewater against a traditional power in 2013, the national spotlight for a possible…
Two weeks from Tuesday is Christmas Day, believe it or not. The University of Louisville is out with a video with some familiar faces wishing “Happy Holidays” to all friends…
He’s got the look and the bulk that make running backs change direction. Now that Charlie Strong has taken care of some pressing priorities, he and Clint Hurtt have gotten…
The University of Louisville’s basketball game against Providence on Jan. 2 in the KFC Yum! Center has been moved to a 6 p.m. tip off. The Big East Conference opener,…
The folks at Western Kentucky University refuse to be irrelevant. Just when WKU athletics have all but vanished from the public consciousness, the school does the unexpected, pulling the occasional…
Tough sledding ahead for Teddy Bridgewater in the Heisman Trophy stakes. Somehow Chris Huston, a blogger for CBS Sports, compiled a list on the leading Heisman Trophy candidates for the…
Fourteen minutes remaining in the second half, here comes Russ Smith again. Sizing up the defender, cutting right, down the middle among the trees, throwing up the ball, a sure…
Rick Pitino was interrupted by jingling cell phone during his press conference following the University of Louisville basketball team’s 99-47 win over Missouri-Kansas City. Nick Stover, the new social media…
A surprise visitor showed up during a football signing day party back in February. Wild applause rippled through the old Parrish House across the street from Papa John’s Cardinal Stadium…
These occasions never get old, the ones where Tom Jurich pulls off still another unbelievable feat. An outsider would get the impression that it’s just another day on the job.…
Congratulations, University of Louisville fans. You’re looking at a football coach with integrity who says what he means and means what he says. A man who takes loyalty seriously, values…
Any more outstanding issues out there needing to be resolved? Bring them on. Pete Thammel, of Sports Illustrated, is reporting that Charlie Strong has recommitted to the University of Louisville…
Charlie Strong is still keeping everybody guessing. One thing Strong has made clear is that he doesn’t like to discuss football coaching rumors, wanting to hold people accountable for spreading…
Your loyal observer goes on the record about Charlie Strong’s comments during WHAS-TV’s 5 o’clock news segment (Give the video an interminable 20-plus seconds to start. Or give up and…
Quite possibly Charlie Strong can’t put the rumors aside just yet because he doesn’t know whether he has everything he wants. When asked Monday if he would return to the…
So will Charlie Strong stay or go? The name of the University of Louisville football coach keeps coming up with every potential SEC vacancy that comes up. Tennessee, Arkansas, Auburn.…
The script just keeps getting revised for Charlie Strong’s future. His University of Louisville football team was beckoned to the Atlantic Coast Conference this week, starting in 2014, dramatically changing…