Earlier this year, Denny Schrecker was in Florida, playing golf with his wife, when his doctors asked him to come home so they could treat the brain tumor that was killing him. But Denny said no. He said this was maybe the last chance he’d ever have to play golf with Linda in Florida, so […]

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From humble roots in the segregated South, they grew up to become the disparate voices of Black America in the 1960s, that dark and defining era when America was ripped asunder by two wars — one in the jungles of Vietnam, the other in the streets and backroads of Alabama, Mississippi, and other places where […]

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During my years with The Courier-Journal, I provided Bob Schulman with a lot of material for his media column in The Louisville Times. Sometimes he took my side, sometimes he didn’t. But I never doubted that he cared deeply about fairness and ethics and integrity.
It was fashionable in the newsrooms to dismiss Schulman’s opinions and […]

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In UK’s disciplined practices, Kron often was the target of Rupp’s sarcasm. Once Rupp stopped practice after a Kron mistake and bellowed, “Did you know I’m writing a book entitled ‘What Not to do in Basketball’? The first 200 pages are about you.”

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Beard was the straw that stirred the drink. He was lightning-quick with the ball and tenacious on defense, but his signature quality was his burning desire to win.

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But the group was unlike anything the painter Rockwell could have imagined in the 1940s and ’50s. In terms of race, religion, and politics, it was every bit as eclectic as the congregation in church. A mixed bag of races, religions, and values, all come together under this one roof, for this afternoon. And best of all, the sense of love was as palpable as the aromas eminating from the kitchen.

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In other words, to many, Liberty represents values that any self-respecting university should disavow. Yet tonight the University of Kentucky mens basketball team will play host to Liberty in Rupp Arena and send it back to Lynchburg, Va., with a big paycheck.

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On a more serious note, “Loose Horse Larry” has been blaming Fletcher’s loss not on Fletcher but on McConnell, Grayson, Anne Northup, Steve Pence and other Republicans who, in Loose Horse’s opinion, underminded Fletcher’s administration.

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If the polls prove correct and Beshear whips Fletcher in the Nov. 6 election, he will inheirit a mess much like the one Brooks found when he came to UK. His first job will be to clean up the ethical and moral cesspool that the Fletcherites created, denied, defended, and covered up.

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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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