I knew that Louisville wasn’t going to win the NCAA basketball championship when I saw how their players acted during their blowout win over Arizona in the Sweet Sixteen. The sideline dancing by seniors Terrence Williams and Andre McGee was bad enough. But the camera-mugging by junior Edgar Sosa, who had not earned the right […]

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The most important news about the breaking scandal in Coach Jim Calhoun’s University of Connecticut program is who broke the story. It wasn’t a traditional newspaper or TV station. It was Yahoo.com, an internet site that gave reporters Dan Wetzel and Adam Wojnarowski more than six months to chase the story.
Like many journalists, veteran and […]

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For years my wish list has included the chance to see one more Kentucky men’s basketball game in Memorial Coliseum. On Tuesday night, that wish came true, albeit not exactly by the way I would have picked. The Wildcats were playing in the house that Adolph Rupp built only because the latest heir to The […]

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The main thing keeping me from picking Louisville to win the national championship is the Cards’ poor free-throw shooting. Remember last year’s title game, when Memphis needed only to make a couple of free throws at the end to lock it up? Instead, they bricked four of their last five in regulation, opening the way […]

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For University of Kentucky basketball fans, the unspoken fear lingering behind Rick Pitino’s presence at the University of Louisville always has been that their former coach would build a program that would surpass the one in Lexington.
It was their worst nightmare, Pitino putting the Cards on the cutting-edge of college hoops while the Cats drifted […]

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I tried to give Billy Clyde Gillispie the benefit of the doubt. I really did. A few weeks ago, after the Kentucky Wildcats had started 5-0 in the Southeastern Conference, I even suggested that both Gillispie and his predecessor, Tubby Smith, deserved to be in the Coach-of-the-Year discussion at that point of the season.
Now I […]

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