LOUISVILLE, Ky. People who go through difficult times together often grow closer. They build a kind of credibility with each other that others may not have. Maybe that’s the case with the University of Louisville football team and those players who endured last season, stayed with the program and will begin work next month on…
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Five weeks after stroke, Denny Crum says he’s making progress
LOUISVILLE, Ky. The car pulled up, and out popped Susan Sweeney Crum into the crowded lunch-hour parking lot of Kern’s Korner in the Highlands. “All right,” she said, smiling. “I’ve delivered him.” Up behind her walked Hall of Fame basketball coach Denny Crum in a red-and-grey plaid shirt, smiling and happy to be out, showing…
Knight Move: Bellarmine embraces ‘the show’ in D-1 leap
LOUISVILLE, Ky. This was a great day for Bellarmine. Students hung over the railings in the atrium in Centro’s McGowan Hall. ASUN (don’t call it Atlantic Sun) banners hung along the sides of the room. Dr. Susan Donovan, president of Bellarmine, announced “our athletics program will move to NCAA Division I in all sports.” Louisville…
Louisville’s Sniders celebrate Father’s Day on a field of dreams
LOUISVILLE, Ky. The game was over and the dog pile had already begun near the pitcher’s mound at Jim Patterson Stadium. But there was another moment, off camera, that was just as memorable. And on Father’s Day, seems just as significant. Louisville baseball assistant coach Eric Snider, amid the chaos, went looking for his son,…
Back in Omaha, Louisville, McDonnell look to take next step
LOUISVILLE, Ky. The University of Louisville baseball team has proven it can get to Omaha. The Cardinals will head to the College World Series for the fifth time overall and the fourth time in seven years when they face No. 2-ranked Vanderbilt in the CWS Opener in TD Ameritrade Park this weekend. What the Cardinals…