A few days before the Kentucky Derby, former Governor Brereton Jones was standing on the backstretch at Churchill Downs, talking about trainer Larry Jones’ decision to run the filly Eight Belles in the Kentucky Derby instead of the Kentucky Oaks. Brereton applauded the decision, and not just because it meant that his filly, Proud Spell, […]

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My friend John Y. Brown III was just a kid back in the 1970s when his dad owned the Kentucky Colonels of the American Basketball Association and his mom was chairman of the first, and still the only, all-female board of directors in the history of professional sports.
So when John saw the advance publicity about […]

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Early in their Monday night show at the Derby Dinner Playhouse, the Monarchs did their version of the Five Satins’ immortal 1956 hit, In The Still of The Night, and I frankly admit to harboring some decidedly ungrandfatherly thoughts.
Even in winter, a lion is still a lion, if you get my drift, and that music […]

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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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It’s time to include everyone in the government process instead of just the lunch crowd at Vincenzio’s and Jeff Ruby’s. It’s time to start running Louisville as a city instead of as a private fiefdom for the social, cultural, and financial elite.

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If Kentucky ever approves casino gambling and Churchill gets a license, as it surely would, there would have to be a major attitude adjustment on the part of track management.

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Like the Marines storming Mount Sarabachi in World War II, the presidents need to take the athletics hill and plant the flag of academic integrity atop it.

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Is the local sports media intimidated by the nation’s No. 1 athletics director? Are they afraid of getting on his wrong side for fear of retribution and/or ostracization? If so, what does that say about their responsibility to the public and their profession?

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I love everything about Notre Dame. On a football Saturday, there’s no place quite like the campus in South Bend

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He stopped eating and his once strong body wasted away. Everybody gave up on him except his wife, Katie.

And, of course, his God.

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