I’ve heard from a pretty good source that Notre Dame will be the University of Kentucky’s opponent this season in Freedom Hall. This will be good news for everybody who has fond memories of the annual UK-Irish game that was played in Louisville every year from the late 1960s through the early ’80s.
The Irish ended […]

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Speaking on ESPN’s Sports Reporters show, sports columnist Mike Lupica declared the thoroughbred racing season to be officially over in the wake of Kentucky Derby winner Super Saver’s disappointing loss in the Preakness. He staggered home so far back of the victorious Lookin at Lucky that he might as well have been carrying Prince Fielder […]

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The Preakness has been good to D. Wayne Lukas. His first Triple Crown victory came in the 1980 Preakness, when his colt Codex overpowered — some say buillied — the Derby-winning filly, Genuine Risk. For the next 20 years, Lukas dominated thoroughbred racing unlike any trainer before or since.

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I don’t care how good University of Kentucky hoops recruit Enes Kanter may turn out to be, he can only hope to be the second greatest Enes to perform in Central Kentucky.
The first, of course, is the one and only Little Enis, which was the stage name of Carlos Toadvine of near Danville. Modestly billing […]

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The Courier-Journal never published a special Kentucky Derby section until 1974, the year of the 100th running of the world’s most famous race. I know, because my friend Jim Bolus and I collaborated to write the lead story about Cannonade’s front-running victory for trainer Woody Stephens and jockey Angel Cordero Jr.
From then until 1986, the […]

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LOUISVILLE – Until it was time for the horses to leave the paddock and head for the track, the day of the 136th Kentucky Derby was such a dreary affair that YUM! Brands, the corporation that has leeched its name onto the world’s most coveted horse race, should have offered everyone a refund or, at […]

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