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Time for an awards ceremony
We’ve had some good news on the family front. My niece is a documentary film producer who worked on the 2022 Academy Award winning documentary “Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised),” about the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival, an event that rivaled Woodstock but was completely ignored by the mainstream media.…
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In praise of Jeff Walz
As a season ticket holder, I already knew this about Louisville women’s basketball coach Jeff Walz. Nice of the CJ to catch up: Louisville’s Jeff Walz is the best active women’s basketball coach to have not won a national championship. It’s time he’s recognized as such. That may sound like a dubious honor, to be the best…
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Look back at 2013 basketball and the NCAA
This is long overdue (from the Kentucky Lantern): The appearance of a double standard by college sports’ governing body is raising hopes the University of Louisville’s 2013 NCAA basketball championship can be restored. UofL athletics director Josh Heird told the Kentucky Lantern he has been in contact with NCAA President Charlie Baker about revisiting the…
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Hoop dreams in the Ville
Thousands of middle- and high-school girls are spending the weekend at the Kentucky Fair and Exposition Center for the Nike Elite Youth Basketball League (or EYBL) tournament, which started Friday and goes through Monday. It’s an impressive gathering of student athletes that involves access to 80 basketball courts all having games at the same time.…
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Changes at UofL women’s basketball
The Women’s Final Four NCAA tournament begins tonight with Texas against South Carolina at 7 p.m. and UConn facing UCLA at 9:30. I’m a huge fan of women’s college basketball and have been following that tournament closely. I really don’t know and don’t care who’s in the men’s Final Four (OK, I’ll look it up:…
