INDIANAPOLIS — I never took a journalism class. When I once proudly told that to my friend Bob Knight, he said, “Yeah, it shows.” So now here I am, at the age of 66, getting ready to teach two classes at the new National Center for Sports Journalism on the campus of Indiana University Purdue […]

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His attorney and his bosses and his staff told him to keep quiet and they were absolutely right. Rick Pitino had nothing to gain and some goodwill to lose. But sometimes even the best coaches can’t be coached and so yesterday Pitino held the most bizarre press conference yet in this nightmare that just won’t […]

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HENDERSON, Ky. – Ron Geary has done everything humanly possible to upgrade Ellis Park and enable it to continue as a viable part of Kentucky’s year-round racing circuit. He has cleaned it up, painted it up, and fixed it up. The food and service are good. The racing is as good as the purse structure […]

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The best outcome for the Rick Pitino sex scandal would be for the University of Louisville’s basketball coach to voluntarily take a leave of absence and turn his 2009-’10 team over to Ralph Willard, who gave up the head job at Holy Cross so he could be at his dear friend’s side.
I say this with […]

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My favorite Louisville Bats player is Kevin Barker, the slugging left-handed first-baseman whom the parent Cincinnati Reds simply will not call up, no matter how anemic their hitting. Heading into last night’s game at Lehigh Valley, Barker had a team-leading 21 homers,  leaving him 12 away from tying the franchise record set by Mike Calise […]

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My compliments to John David Dyche, part-time token right-wing columnist for The Courier-Journal, for calling out Arnold Garson, the paper’s current publisher and president, in his op-ed piece Aug. 5. It needed to be done and nobody else with a forum has the gumption to do it, with the possible exception of Francene, the morning […]

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Here in the early stages of the campaign for Jim Bunning’s seat in the U.S. Senate, a most amazing transformation already has occurred: Dr. Daniel Mongiardo, our Democratic lieutenant governor, has morphed into Dr. Ernie Fletcher, the scandal-ridden Republican whom Mongiardo helped Steve Beshear oust in 2007.
Running against Beshear and Mongiardo, Fletcher engaged in campaign […]

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