Half a century of covering Louisville sports for Ed Peak
Editor’s Note: More on Ed Peak from the man who knows him best, Ed Peak. I first met Ed while we were young sportswriters at the Courier-Journal; he was part…
Scandal turns fan’s Louisville basketball world upside down
When I was a child, we played a silly game called fruit basket turnover. These last few weeks, I have felt as if I have been in a fruit basket,…
Wayne Blackshear passed on opportunities
Whatever, Wayne. Wayne Blackshear telling the Chicago Tribune, “I sacrificed my game a lot at Louisville for team success. I tried to fit in too much. I really couldn’t show…
Adidas remains right choice for Louisville basketball
The latest recruiting fiasco in which a basketball recruit chooses the University of Louisville only to quickly change his mind may have some administrators and fans wondering if UofL made…
Crawford on Petrino and the fear factor
Some long-awaited insight may have finally been provided into the dramatic shift that occurred in the University of Louisville’s football fortunes after Steve Kragthorpe succeeded Bobby Petrino as head coach.…
Courier-Journal suffers major blow with losses of Eric Crawford and Rick Bozich
I’ve often wondered whether the publication would survive without them. Now we’re about to find out. During all the recent personnel cutbacks at the Courier-Journal in recent years, the management…
Creig Ewing new sports editor at Courier-Journal
The Courier-Journal has yet to make an announcement, possibly out of respect for the 19 members of the editorial staff who took early retirement Thursday. Creig Ewing has been named…
Favorite columnist survives another round of Courier-Journal layoffs
Fifty more people, most of them from the news room, have been laid off by the Courier-Journal in the latest round of cuts by the Gannett Corporation. That brings the…
Dismissed U of L assistant knew how to work the system
Some writers with an unbridled sense of loyalty to the University of Kentucky have opted to make a big deal of a $371,000 judgment against the University of Louisville, as…
CJ Sports Editor Replies To Reader
Eric Crawford may be one of the best sports columnists to ever write for the Courier-Journal so any criticism of the CJ here really doesn’t apply to him. That out…
You Go, Bozich
The observer is not about to knee jerk Rick Bozich’s analysis that Bobby Petrino had much to do with the rapid decline of Louisville football. Writers like Bozich have a…
Fan Loyalty Runs Deep In Louisville
Louisvillians are often subjected to the idea that the fan allegiance of local residents is equally divided between the University of Louisville and the University of Kentucky, even among those…