WDRB Sports Journalist. Writer. Photographer.
Another month in the books, and lots of baseball. That’s the majority of my favorite photos from June, but that’s not all. Without further delay, my tops from the month: Archie Miller speaks to Indiana fans at Huber’s The IU coach had a lot to talk about after last season’s struggles. I got plenty of…
Louisville’s College World Series experience is in the books, and a couple of days have passed to allow for some perspective. So now, a few thoughts on the Cardinals’ exciting run. 1). LUKE SMITH AFTERMATH. So many thoughts on the Louisville pitcher caught shouting F-bombs at the Vanderbilt dugout on national television. Will try to…
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…
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, 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,…
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…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) People in Louisville, I know, aren’t always sure what to make of Southeast Christian Church. When you grow to become one of the largest churches in the nation, you also become, willingly, a lightning rod for all things, and you become the center of a great deal of attention. You are at the…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. Another year has come and gone, and once again the NCAA playing rules oversight panel has messed around with the rules and declined to make the one change that could make the most real improvement in the game. Now, don’t get me wrong. I’m not one of those who says the college game…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. John Calipari woke up one day last week and his son Brad was in the NCAA Transfer portal. Let’s not pretend this is a normal situation. A normal situation with teenage (or even college age) sons on the verge of summer is one like mine. I wake up, and they’re (most likely, this…
BORDEN, Ind. You know it was a rough basketball season in Bloomington when the Voice of the Hoosiers, Don Fischer, stands up at a gathering of Indiana University boosters a couple of months after the season is over and calls a lot of the negativity he heard the previous season “crap.” He told a group…