I have no idea who came up with the idea of New Year’s resolutions, but I’ll bet it was a Stone Age wife who got sick and tired of her husband lying around the cave, stuffing his face with dried bat wings and sucking down a brewsky and trying to figure out his Fantasy Dinosaur […]

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Only a few city blocks from where Bob Knight threw John Calipari under the bus on the issue of coaching integrity, the head coach of the Indianapolis Colts, acting in collusion with the team president, tossed integrity into the gutter and laughed at it.
As surely as any point-shaver or crooked referee, Jim Caldwell threw a […]

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I wouldn’t be shocked if Rich Brooks announced his retirement as Kentucky football coach either right after tonight’s Music City Bowl game against Clemson or during the next few days.
I also wouldn’t be surprised if Louisville Athletics Director Tom Jurich finds himself back in the coaching-search business because Charley Strong reneges on his commitment to […]

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LEXINGTON, Ky. – The future is now for University of Kentucky basketball, so Coach John Calipari might as well stop playing coy with just how good this team is and can eventually be. Even at this early date, the Cats have “Final Four” stamped all over them.  You can have Kansas and Texas. Give me […]

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By and large, it was a tough year to be a sports fan in Kentucky.  The achievements were overwhelmed by scandals and cruel defeats.  The commonwealth produced more black karma than black gold (that’s coal, for you outsiders),
Here’s my picks for the dozen top sports stories of 2009.
12. Western Kentucky goes 0-12 in its first […]

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<i>Here’s the Rest of the Charlie Strong story. Here’s a link to <a href=’http://www.louisvillemojo.com/blogs/Louisville_blogs/83268/Charlie_Strong_s_Odyssey_to_Louisville__Part_1′  target=’_313639′>Part 1</a>.</i>
Well, obviously, he was an African-American working mainly in a part of the nation that has been slower than most to embrace black head football coaches. But he also married a white woman, something that’s still not considered socially acceptable […]

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<i>Cheer, cheer for old Notre Dame. Wake up the echoes shouting her name.</i>
Finally, somebody has stood up for class and integrity in college football. The Irish were the only 6-6 team in the nation — maybe the first since the regular-season schedule was expanded to 12 games — to just say no to a bowl.
Every […]

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In the 10 seconds of silence he needed to choke back tears and bring his emotions under control, Charlie Strong won over many of the University of Louisville football fans who never warmed up to Steve Kragthorpe. The beauty of it was that it was spontaneous, unplanned, real. Here was a Strong man, in name […]

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Nobody asked me, but…
•    On this, the 68th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, I hope we all can take a moment to bow our heads and remember the men and women who died there on Dec. 7, 1941. The bodies of almost 1,000 were never recovered from the USS Arizona.
•    My Heisman […]

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Tiger Woods’ driving has been erratic for years so it’s not surprising that he hooked – or shanked, I’m not sure which – his SUV into a fire hydrant and a tree at 1:30 a.m. the morning after Thanksgiving. His wife pulled him out by knocking out a window with a club – we don’t […]

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