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Mark Coomes: Is Big Blue yellow when it comes to playing U of L?
College coaches and athletics directors are big on commitment. They want commitment from their fans, their players, their recruits and from each other. ADs hope successful coaches stay committed to...
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University of Louisville Homecoming 2013: In Russ We Trust vs. Cool Hand Luke
Ahh, it’s Homecoming weekend this weekend, which means it’s time to get together with friends on a chilly Friday night, buy over-priced beer at Papa John’s Cardinal Stadium, bundle up in that shameless...
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Mark Coomes on U of L-Houston: Only losers boo a winning team
Ten months after the biggest victory in the program’s history, with another bowl bid and a Top-20 ranking in hand, a vocal minority of University of Louisville fans showed its appreciation by booing...
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Mark Coomes: You’re right, Cardinal fans; I was wrong
After further review, the premise of my Monday column has been overturned. With the benefit of hindsight (and a DVR), it’s pretty plain that I was wrong to conclude that University of Louisville fans...
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Mark Coomes: U of L star QB Brian Brohm on Teddy Bridgewater’s decision to...
Teddy Bridgewater’s iPod is jammed with Motown and gospel tunes, but these days he’s rocking a dilemma that’s straight out of British punk. Should I stay or should I go? No telling when he’ll let us...
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Mark Coomes: U of L’s Teddy Bridgewater is a rare exception to...
Leave it to Teddy Bridgewater, who spent three years forcing defenses into unsolvable dilemmas, to turn a simple valedictory into the Kobayashi Maru. There’s no way to write a proper homage to this...
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All in a day’s play: UK outbattles U of L in raucous Rupp Arena, but Cards...
The University of Kentucky stats crew did a horrible job Saturday. They only credited the Wildcats with eight assists. The real total was 24,396. If ever a home crowd lifted a team to victory, it was...
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On Charlie Strong: Coaches come and go, but fans are forever
It was a weekend of worry in our fair city, spent fretting over the arrival of icy cold and the departure of Charlie Strong. While denuding store shelves of milk, bread and driveway salt, we stewed...
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Everybody deserves a second chance – even Bobby Petrino
(Post updated at 11:20 a.m.*) The college of Cardinals isn’t quite ready to make it official, but white smoke is billowing from the chimneys on Belknap Campus. Habemus lanista. We have a coach. Or in...
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Sowing seeds of discontent: The Cats and Cards both face a tough March
For 10 weirdly tumultuous days, the comings and goings of Charlie Strong and Bobby Petrino put Kentucky in a gridiron state of mind that supplanted the commonwealth’s chronic obsession with basketball....
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Cards fans now happy campers: Petrino and Strong, all the rage in December,...
Life imitated jock art last winter when college football’s coaching carousel made University of Louisville fans resemble the teeth-gnashing, nail-spitting Cardinal head that adorns their team’s...
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Gone with the windbag: It’s football season and frankly, my dear, we do give...
Seems fitting that America, the world’s biggest windbag, is obsessed with a sport in which men thrill roaring crowds by agitating a bag of wind. Reignited last week by the return of young men to the...
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U of L’s hopes now ride on backup QB Reggie Bonnafon, the people’s choice
We know from the gospel of Andy, as told to the apostle Red, that hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and nothing stirs hope in the hearts of football fans like the debut of a new …...
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The Tailgating Bunch: For Marsha and Greg Cloud, tailgating is more than just...
It’s a game-day Saturday, which means Marsha and Greg Cloud are up early prepping and packing the RV. Beer: check. Ice: check. Meat, chips, dips and plates: check. An ample amount of time, money and...
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A rumble then a crumble: Florida State’s late surge KOs the Cards
Post updated at 12:30 p.m. On the 40th anniversary of the Rumble in the Jungle, in front of The Greatest himself, Florida State did unto Louisville what Ali did to Foreman. Rope-A-Dope redux. Thursday...
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U of L to expand Papa John’s Cardinal Stadium
By Fred Cowgill | WLKY This story was reported by WLKY and is reposted here with permission. The University of Louisville will expand Papa John’s Cardinal Stadium for the second time in the last...
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Lachlan McLean: U of L vs. UK rivalry renewed on the football field
By Lachlan McLean | WLKY Story reported by WLKY. Kentucky fans like their second quarterback, while Louisville fans just want the second quarter back. That’s the story after Saturday’s college football...
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In Other News… Paul debates, Bridgewater to Pro Bowl, Top Food City, Jennifer...
Up for Debate: The final, once-and-for-all, what-could-they-possibly have-left-to-say GOP debate was Thursday night; USA Today has the highlights. Many headlines surround your Kentucky junior Senator,...
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U of L launches capital campaign to fund football stadium expansion
By WLKY News The University of Louisville Athletics Department is starting a capital campaign to fund the expansion of Papa John’s Cardinal Stadium. The Coming Full Circle campaign will also fund...
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UofL Football: Off-season training is just another day at the beach
It’s mid-summer, and the University of Louisville football Cardinals are enjoying their days at the beach. And, hey! Why not? Everyone knows Louisville is going to be good on the gridiron in 2016. So...
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