Nobody asked me, but…

Now we know exactly how weak the Southeastern Conference was this season. Louisville 69, Tennessee 50. So much for the league’s best team and last NCAA survivor. I said all season the Vols were too selfish to win it all. To get the ball, Chris Lofton practically had to steal it from […]

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Funny how things work out, but Kentucky’s path to the NCAA tournament’s Sweet Sixteen is less daunting than the ones faced by Louisville and Indiana. Besides that, the Cats get a trip to balmy Southern California.
Somebody on the tournament committee must like Billy Clyde Gillispie.
After Georgia – Georgia! – completed its improbable run through the […]

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I used to think that post-season conference basketball tournaments were established purely so that greedy college presidents and athletics directors could gouge even more money out of the fans and TV networks. I thought that conference tournaments cheapened the regular season and put unreasonable demands on those athletes who also took their academics seriously.
But I’ve […]

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My favorite college basketball players this season were a couple of big guys who put on clinics every time they took the floor. One came from nowhere and the other breathed life back into a career that seemed to be all but dead. Both were throwbacks to the days when playing smart and playing tough […]

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Nobody asked me, but…
A few weeks ago, I argued that now would be a good time for University of Kentucky football coach Rich Brooks to retire – he’ll be 67 when the Cats open against Louisville this fall – and turn the reins over to Joker Phillips, the offensive coordinator who’s done such a splendid […]

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You can sense it coming together, can’t you? You can sense that the University of Louisville basketball team is on the cusp of breaking through the malaise, or whatever you want to call its knuckle-headed play of yore, and becoming a very good team – maybe even a Final Four contender.
The victory over Kentucky got […]

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Let’s not disrespect the original 1983 “Dream Game” – or most of the Kentucky-Louisville games since then, for that matter – by making more of Saturday’s renewal than it really is: A less-than-classic struggle of two grossly underachieving teams that both, at this point, seem almost uncoachable.
So far Kentucky has been a disgrace, mostly because […]

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We now take you into the University of Louisville basketball team’s locker room before last Saturday’s home game against New Mexico State. The players are leisurely putting on their uniforms and talking about what they expect their girlfriends to give them for Christmas. In a small office just off the main room, Coach Rick Pitino […]

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Bobby Petrino is a slimeball. Just typing his name makes me want to take a shower. He’s a serial liar, yet he keeps getting jobs. That says as much about the people who hire him as it does Petrino.
The news that Petrino has bolted the Atlanta Falcons for the University of Arkansas comes on the […]

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I’m sick of the Derrick Caracters of the college sports world. If the 6-foot-9 juvenile delinquent from New Jersey never plays another minute for the University of Louisville, it’ll be fine with me. Coaches and professors are not social workers. If a student can’t abide by the rules, tell him to not let the door […]

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