If there was still such a thing as “academic integrity” in big-time college sports, the NCAA would give Florida State an ultimatum: Get rid of Bobby Bowden or get the death penalty. It should make no difference that Bowden is the current record-holder for career victories in what should be called The Overemphasis Division. He […]

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We now take you into the University of Louisville basketball team’s locker room before last Saturday’s home game against New Mexico State. The players are leisurely putting on their uniforms and talking about what they expect their girlfriends to give them for Christmas. In a small office just off the main room, Coach Rick Pitino […]

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The last person in the world who can get a grip on this mess is Commissioner Bud Selig. He’s still an owner in spirit, if not in fact, and the owners must take just as much responsibility for the scandal as the players.

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In case you hadn’t noticed, the University of Kentucky basketball program is going to hell in a handbasket. It’s serious, folks, and Athletics Director Mitch Barnhart needs to take emergency measures right now to keep the slippage from getting worse – even if it means facing up to the fact that new Coach Billy Clyde […]

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Bobby Petrino is a slimeball. Just typing his name makes me want to take a shower. He’s a serial liar, yet he keeps getting jobs. That says as much about the people who hire him as it does Petrino.
The news that Petrino has bolted the Atlanta Falcons for the University of Arkansas comes on the […]

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I’m sick of the Derrick Caracters of the college sports world. If the 6-foot-9 juvenile delinquent from New Jersey never plays another minute for the University of Louisville, it’ll be fine with me. Coaches and professors are not social workers. If a student can’t abide by the rules, tell him to not let the door […]

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Louisville’s Brian Brohm got my vote for the Heisman Trophy. So go ahead and call me a homer. I plead guilty as charged, but with mitigating circumstances, as I shall now explain.
In my book, Brohm was the front-runner going into the season and I saw nothing to change my mind as the Cardinals stumbled to […]

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Owen is intellectually brilliant, charming, and a tough negotiator. But he also leads the Western world in pondering, deliberating, and testing which way the wind is blowing.

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Welcome to the first Billy Reed Sports Poll, which will be conducted regularly on an informal basis to gauge the sentiments of local fans about personalities and issues. The results will be published when we get a minimum of 25 responses.
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This decision stinks. It’s one of the biggest blows to our culture since Gannett cut back the C-J’s statewide circulation and folded The Louisville Times.

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