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Entries from May 2009

On the Way Out, Manassah Should Provide Answers

January 31st, 2006 · No Comments

Does Shakeup at C-J Have Anything to do with Publisher’s Push for LG&E Site?

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Tags: Miscellaneous · Politics · Sports

Nobody asked me, but…

January 30th, 2006 · No Comments

Random observations and questions about show biz

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Tags: Entertainment · Miscellaneous

UK’s 1996 Champs Deserve a 10th Anniversary Bash

January 27th, 2006 · No Comments

it would be a shame to let the year pass without doing something to honor the team that lost only to UMass and Mississippi State on the way to a 34-2 record and UK’s sixth national title

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Tags: Basketball · Sports · University of Kentucky · University of Louisville

Arena Questions Abound

January 26th, 2006 · No Comments

Arena Authority now is doing business like the late, great NBA Pursuit Team – behind closed doors, in other words, and without full disclosure to the public.

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Tags: Basketball · Louisville Arena · Politics · Sports

All Eyes Are On Smarty

January 24th, 2006 · No Comments

Smarty’s success at stud is crucial not only to Three Chimneys, where Dynaformer and Rahy are the leading money-makers, but to the entire breeding industry

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Tags: Horse Racing · Keeneland · Kentucky Derby · Miscellaneous

Shame on Pat Riley

January 22nd, 2006 · 1 Comment

He couldn’t find it in his heart to sacrifice one day out of the long and tiresome NBA schedule to be somewhere special, somewhere where his presence was needed and would have been richly appreciated

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Tags: Basketball · Entertainment · University of Kentucky

Courtside seats for media are a privilege, not a right

January 20th, 2006 · No Comments

We’ve worked ourselves into quite a lather by the rapid disappearance of the courtside press table.

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Tags: Basketball · Indiana University · Miscellaneous · Sports · University of Kentucky · University of Louisville

Digger Returns to Hated Freedom Hall

January 19th, 2006 · No Comments

Phelps was 2-11 against UK in Freedom Hall. He got to the point that he hated everything about the trip, beginning with the crowd of more than 10,000 that the Cats always drew for their shoot-around the morning of the game

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Tags: Basketball · Entertainment · Sports

Billy on Ali

January 19th, 2006 · No Comments

For someone whose footwork dazzled, who floated in order to sting, the most important step of Muhammad Ali’s life was one he did not take.

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Tags: Muhammad Ali · Sports

Why Didn’t Bush Use Ali Center?

January 18th, 2006 · 1 Comment

Were Ali politically active today, instead of silenced by the ravages of Parkinson’s Disease, he surely would be railing against America’s invasion of Iraq

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Tags: Muhammad Ali · Politics