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In Kentucky and Indiana, if you took a poll of the most important things in life, God and basketball would be in the Associated Press Top 5. On Wednesday morning, Kentuckians were told they might want to think about not going to church on Sunday, and by Wednesday evening citizens of both states were told…
I didn’t expect better, but for some foolish reason, I had hoped for better. When it comes to the annual State of the Union address, by now we all know, it’s not the words that matter anymore, it’s the images. All of this is, after all, a television show — especially in a presidential election…
It’s a heck of a life, being a football coach. At the same time, results are everything, and nothing. Contracts are binding, and non-binding. The curious career of Bobby Petrino will resume in Springfield, Missouri, home of Missouri State University, soon to be the latest case study in institutional hubris in pursuit of football notoriety. Petrino’s…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. Scott Davenport was shopping for team snacks at Kroger when he called to ask if I wanted to ride on the bus with his Bellarmine University basketball team to its exhibition game at Notre Dame. I told him what you’d expect me to tell him, “You had me at snacks from Kroger.” The…
CORAL GABLES, Fla. Walking through the Miami airport on Monday, I saw a Louisville fan with an old T-shirt on, featuring the words, “Here comes the boom!” I got to thinking, Louisville has done a lot of good things in the past year, but the Cardinals don’t really have that “boom” factor, that knockout punch….
On Saturday, the University of Louisville football team beat Virginia 28-21. I wasn’t at the game, didn’t see the celebration, couldn’t feel the excitement in the stadium, wasn’t there for coach Scott Satterfield’s post-game comments. But I’ve been witnessing those things all season. When the Cardinals scored their first touchdown in the game, they surpassed…
The apparent death of suspected sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein illustrates, in a nutshell, the problem with American government at many levels and on both sides of the aisle today. And it’s a problem that has concerned me for some time. American competence is slipping away. We’re losing our ability to get the job done, whatever…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. As painful as the 2018 University of Louisville football season was to watch from the outside – and it was no picnic – we can only imagine the difficulty of going through it on the inside. But thanks to a few Louisville football players opening up about last season’s experience, we can imagine…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. Four-time Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles hasn’t lost a gymnastics all-around competition since 2013, so the question really wasn’t whether she would walk away with the all-around gold Saturday night in the GK U.S. Classic in the KFC Yum! Center. The only questions were whether she would maintain the gap she holds over…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. We all watch Olympic gymnasts every four years, sometimes more, for the U.S. Championships or World Championships, and we marvel at how these small athletes can pack such power and strength. When it comes to U.S. women’s gymnastics, it wasn’t until the horrifying revelations about sexual abuse suffered by the athletes over decades…