Mickey Clark’s 2012 Battle of New Orleans
Thirty years after Mickey Clark recorded the first “Battle of New Orleans” takeoff in honor of the University of Louisville basketball team getting to the Final Four in New Orleans,…
University of Louisville News & Perspectives
Thirty years after Mickey Clark recorded the first “Battle of New Orleans” takeoff in honor of the University of Louisville basketball team getting to the Final Four in New Orleans,…
Hopefully, just the beginning. University of Louisville students out in force after the win over Florida in the NCAA basketball tournament. Rated R for brief flurry of UK taunts.
University of Louisville basketball was gone for a while but now it’s back. Back in the Elite Eight, but with even higher, much higher, expectations. Rick Pitino said it himself…
After a first round win, a level of tranquility quickly falls over the observer’s house, the occupants elated about the prospects of surviving and advancing another round. But it’s going…
Among Tom Jurich’s favorite memories of University of Louisville athletics was the snow storm that preceded the UofL-UCLA soccer game in the NCAA quarterfinals last season. It was a magical,…
Once upon a time the college football landscape in America made sense. Athletic conferences consisted largely of universities within easily identifiable geographic boundaries or regions. Lots of natural rivalries, relatively…
Apparently people connected with Morehead State are still celebrating the school’s unlikely 62-61 win over the University of Louisville basketball team in the opening round of the NCAA tournament last…
Way to represent the Big East.
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…
University of Louisville fans not following the Lady Cards to Cincinnati for NCAA game against Xavier are advised that the game will be broadcast in standard definition on ESPN2. The…
“We’ve got a very, very tough opener, as we did two years ago (when Louisville basketball faced Morehead State in 2009 in Dayton, Ohio). We know Morehead State is very…
Louisville spending too much time on its end of the field in the national championship match, giving Akron far too many chances, tempting the inevitable and finally yielding, 1-0. The…
Common sense wins for once. Even at the NCAA headquarters. Louisville freshman Gorgui Dieng, all six feet, 10 inches of him, has been cleared by the NCAA and is immediately…
As the road to the Final Four winds its way to Indianapolis, speculation is rampant about a vehicle loaded with elephants. Media analysts, however, usually focus on the agility of…
Here’s how Joe Lunardi of ESPN sees it: Not just your average NCAA Tournament bracket, obviously. Under this scenario, Louisville would have the responsibility for denying Kentucky another title. A…
If one figured because Middle Tennessee State had thrown its best pitcher in the opening game of the NCAA Regional there would be a big dropoff in talent, one would…
What took so long? Some former college athletes have filed a class action lawsuit against EA Sports and the NCAA, claiming the video game maker has gone too far in…
University of Louisville basketball fans might want to copy and save this statement for the next Rick Pitino coaching rumor, sure to accompany the decline and fall of another basketball…
Okay, you’re a University of Louisville basketball fanatic or you wouldn’t be here. Should know just about everything about the team. So who was Will Scott’s basketball idol, the one…
This observer doesn’t drink at Louisville games, primarily because it seems every time I do the Cardinals wind up losing, the most memorable occasion being the overtime loss to UCLA…