Tony Woods winds up at Oregon
The latest chapter in the Tony Woods saga has been written. Norman Parker, his AAU basketball coach, says Woods, the former Wake Forest Center, will finally be transferring to Oregon.…
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The latest chapter in the Tony Woods saga has been written. Norman Parker, his AAU basketball coach, says Woods, the former Wake Forest Center, will finally be transferring to Oregon.…
Rick Pitino has already been accused of being disingenuous (fibbing or lying) about what’s he’s looking for in recruits this summer at the basketball recruiting camps/factories. Pitino has been known…
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…
Anyone shocked that John Calipari would claim 500 wins even though the NCAA ordered 42 of those w’s stricken from the record? Anyone surprised that the University of Kentucky would…
The daughters of Tick Rogers and Anthony Epps are headed to the University of Louisville. Kyvin Goodin-Rogers and Makayla Epps, juniors-to-be at Marion County High School, are members of the…
Beyond me why the University of Louisville basketball is looking at so many transfers with a roster that already includes 16 players. Yeah, we know these things seem to work…
So Tony Woods, the would-be Wake Forest transfer, is now in communication with Kentucky, Woods having failed to reach an accord with University of Louisville coach Rick Pitino. The 6-foot-11…
Brandon Bender has been the common thread in the University of Central Florida’s recruitment of Demarcus Smith, a former Seneca High School quarterback, and Kevin Ware, a former University of…
The meaning of commitment apparently depends on what day it is for some, suggesting that a major generational gap exists between college athletes of today and yesterday. Negus Webster-Chan, the…
During the past week, the observer has had some in-laws and friends question his loyalty to the state more than a few times, primarily from University of Kentucky fans who…
Houston, we have a problem. Seems obvious to the observer that the school down I-64 is headed for another championship. Virginia Commonwealth, Butler and UConn are deserving teams, having patched…
John Calipari apparently believes it when he says things like the University of Kentucky is the center of the college basketball universe, that other schools want to be UK. “Understand…
You know the look. The one that goes right through you, the one which when directed at you, makes you wonder about the real capabilities of the man. It’s a…
By Paul Sykes For the first time in recent memory, no University of Kentucky signees will be participating in the Derby Classic, this year scheduled April 22 at the KFC…
The number of fans wearing blue was embarrassing. Some would say disgusting and not be exaggerating. Some individuals in the University of Louisville athletic department are reportedly upset by the…
A vacationing University of Louisville basketball fan who gave his tickets to friends for the Louisville-Northern Kentucky exhibition game later apologized to them for the conditions on the third level.…
Only in a disillusioned era of willful disregard for personal responsibility at so many levels could an Eric Bledsoe have been declared eligible to play basketball at the University of…
The first basketball game in the KFC Yum! Center? That will be the University of Louisville women in an exhibition game against Indiana Wesleyan on Oct. 30. The men’s team…
Basketball schedules are being announced as the opening of the football season nears. Who would have guessed? The University of Louisville will face Kentucky in the new KFC Yum Center…
Wouldn’t you love to be in the courtroom this week as jury selection begins in the federal trial of Karen Sypher? Hard to believe her attorneys haven’t yet attempted a…