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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…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. What could Romeo Langford have done to live up to the mountain of hype surrounding his signing with Indiana University? Taken the team to the Final Four? Won Big Ten Player of the Year? Negotiated Bob Knight’s return to Assembly Hall? There are few better examples in recent college basketball of a player’s…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. I’m going to miss Pimlico. I’m not just talking about this year – with no Triple Crown in play and no Kentucky Derby winner on the grounds, I’ll be spending the third Saturday in May in Kentucky for only the fourth time in the past 14 years. No, I’m talking about when the…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. The public seems ready to let the controversial Kentucky Derby finish gallop on out. The sport itself, however, seems intent on going to the whip. Nine days after his colt, Maximum Security, was disqualified and placed 17th after crossing the finish line first in the Kentucky Derby, co-owner Gary West is vowing to…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. Jockey Jon Court knew he was going to make Kentucky Derby history as he entered the starting gate aboard Long Range Toddy on Saturday at Churchill Downs, the oldest man ever to ride in the 145-year-history of the event. But the kind of history the 58-year-old helped to make afterward is enough to…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. A great many things have been written and said about John Asher approaching this first Kentucky Derby since his death last August. I’ve struggled with what to say until today, when I got an assist from Churchill Downs and its president, Kevin Flanery. My last assignment before hitting the road to cover the…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. The Kentucky Derby is over, and nobody is happy. Not the large and rain-soaked Churchill Downs crowd of 150,729, many of whom booed loudly when the final result was made official. Not the backers and connections of Maximum Security, who crossed the finish line first to appear to become the 10th unbeaten Derby…
LOUISVILLE, Ky. Trainer Richard Mandella sat in his hotel room Wednesday evening, and he knew it was over. His colt, Omaha Beach, who had earned the status of Kentucky Derby favorite and trained so beautifully since arriving at Churchill Downs 10 days before, would not be able to run in the world’s most famous race….
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — For just a moment, Louisville basketball fans in the packed KFC Yum! Center and those watching at home on ESPN got a taste of what it was like to be back. This was a buzz that hasn’t been felt in the building since before the postseason ban. For 30 minutes, No. 16…